A dungeon of hyperlink chains rattled the bowels of 𝕏 and beyond last week, conjuring specters of angst and approval, when conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey took a meat cleaver to the horror genre on her podcast just in time for Halloween, her kindly Christian intentions notwithstanding. Her remarks sparked an “It’s alive!” lightning storm of discussions about whether…

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If it is finally love that moves the sun and the stars, to sound the great trumpet blast struck seven centuries ago by Dante Alighieri, along with every planet here below, then we must see such love at work, always and everywhere, even amid the hardship and the horror of our lives. We mustn’t shrink before the logic implicit in such a claim, for all our happiness will depend on the truth of it.

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The topic of Q rather abruptly entered the room again this year when Bill Maher, no conservative, confessed in February that he’d misjudged “QAnon,” in light of the Epstein revelations. “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but where does QAnon go for the apology?” Anons had been talking about the existence of pedophile rings in the highest levels of government and entertainment since 2018…

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Aquinas once wrote that “among all worldly things, there is nothing which seems worthy to be preferred to friendship” (De Regno, I, ch. XI). Regardless of one’s station in life, be he wealthy or in the depths of poverty, be he famous or unknown, a true friend is a comfort unrivaled on this side of heaven. As I ascend my twenties and life continues to grow busier by the year…

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Recent Catholic news tells us that Fr. Chad Ripperger has been asked by his archbishop, James Golka of Denver, to take a yearlong hiatus from public speaking and interviews. Since then, Catholic pundits have been opining as to why this might be: is it a punishment for a canonical crime, real or imagined? Is it because the hierarchy wants him silenced? Is it his teachings…

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Before the first four games of the WNBA Finals, players and coaches of the two teams, the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream, in defiance of the anthem rule still on the books, left the court just before the playing of the national anthem. According to the Valkyries’ coach, it’s just part of the pregame routine; she spends those 90 seconds focused on her plays. Right. Following that…

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The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has produced Venite ad me, subtitled “Considerations on the Transmission of the Faith in an Epochal Change.” The document is supposedly the response of the Dicastery to appeals by both Pope Francis and Pope Leo confronting the decline of the Catholic Faith, especially in countries traditionally “Catholic.” There are some strange notes in the…

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Recently, I told my 4-year-old the story of the Miracle of the Sun that took place during the last apparition of the Blessed Virgin at Fatima on Oct. 13, 1917. Her reaction was completely unlike mine when I first read about this miracle at Marc Barnes’ blog back over a decade ago. I, at that point already an avowed believer in miracles in principle, had not yet come around on most miracles in…

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In light of the new feminist hysteria over Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, the Cornell 7 allegations, and Shane Gillis’s joke about women’s gym outfits, along with the weird doomsday predictions of suspicious Big Tech geniuses like Dario Amodei, it makes sense that the new documentary You Can See Everything has generated so much attention and acclaim since it combines both strands in the news cycle…

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Three events recently converged: the mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s trial for murdering her three children; Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike; and a book I’ve been reading, Unravelling MAiD in Canada. They have one common thread: the medicalization of death. Lindsay Clancy’s strangulation of her children was blamed on a medical condition: postpartum psychosis.

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