Phoebe Gates had it all. She was young, beautiful, and the daughter of one of the richest men in the world, Bill Gates. To say she grew up privileged would be a dramatic understatement. She grew up with unfathomable wealth and countless connections to the world’s most powerful people. On top of this, she was perfectly aligned with orthodox leftism, even earning the “Rising Reproductive Freedom…

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That novelists from different continents should feel inspired to describe the same phenomenon, albeit from various angles, confirms the vitality and relevance of their shared topic of interest. Three lady novelists—one from Spain, one from America, and one from England—have published novels about the trend identified as the Traditional (Latin Mass) revival. Surprisingly, none of their three novels…

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In Part I of this three-part series, I discussed the crisis I witnessed while attending a sedevacantist chapel. This essay will propose a metaphysical diagnosis for these problems by tracing an ideological lineage from counterrevolutionary France through Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, and will explore the role of a centuries-long degeneration of classic Thomism in the crisis.

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Every August, something wonderfully old-fashioned happens in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Boys from places most Americans have never visited walk onto a baseball field carrying the names of their towns, states, and countries across their uniforms. Their families sit nervously in the stands, living and dying with every pitch. Coaches crouch beside overwhelmed pitchers and put an arm around their…

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Freedom is in our pockets and so is the flourishing of a new Catholic revival. Every dollar we spend makes the world a better or a worse place. Every dollar we spend on products produced by corporations with an anti-Catholic, globalist, or woke agenda is making the world a worse place. Every dollar we spend on products produced by faithful Catholics or by small and local businesses makes the world…

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Ross Douthat’s final podcast for The New York Times featured a conversation with Bryan Johnson, the wealthy tech bro who has garnered fame for his apostolic labors on behalf of the “Don’t Die” movement. Johnson’s self-proclaimed “war on death” indicates that the human aspiration for transcendence remains vigorous. Unfortunately, like most of his collaborators in the transhumanist project…

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Over the past few weeks, I have written about a priest from Orange County, California, who has a substantial following on social media and opines on a wide range of religious and political topics. I noticed a month ago that he had published a column on Substack in which he used his mother’s tragic story of not being able to take communion for years because her Protestant husband required the use…

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Martyrs are now passé—for the Synodalist Church, that is. Martyrs spilled their blood for Truth come down from Heaven. For the Synodalist, there is no truth, only transactional process. Who would die for that? For the Synodalist, truth is an antediluvian embarrassment—and so are martyrs. To the chagrin of faithful Catholics, the Synodal Church marches forward.

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I have vague recollections from my early childhood of storming downstairs to the television in my parents’ bungalow to watch He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon. It aired early Saturday mornings and, as I remember it, again on Saturday afternoons and weekdays after school. I watched He-Man and collected the action figures quite fervently. For a time, my mother would buy me one…

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Lindsay Clancy has admitted to killing her three young children. She confessed to strangling each of them with elastic exercise bands. There is no uncertainty about what happened, but her defense has emphasized that Clancy was suffering from postpartum depression and perhaps even postpartum psychosis. Some have suggested that these conditions explain her unspeakable actions. In some ways…

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