Over the past year, postliberalism has become a popular term surrounding debates about the relationship between liberalism and Christianity, particularly Catholicism. On June 11, 2026, Fr. Mario Portella published an essay here in Crisis Magazine called “On Postliberalism,” arguing that postliberalism is fundamentally incompatible with Christianity, citing Carl Schmitt as its protagonist.

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Without detailing the many different strands of the Catholic post-Tridentine Sacrificial Spirituality of this period, let me say that the two great pillars of this spirituality were the Sacrifice of the Mass and the daily Sacrifice of ourselves in imitation of the way Christ sacrificed Himself for us every day of His life on earth. It was not just that the sacrificial nature of the Mass was…

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Recently, Shane Gillis made headlines for saying on Saturday Night Live that women at the gym dress like whores. Naturally, this received a lot of backlash from women who go to the gym in minimal, extremely tight clothing that, until recent years, would have led most to agree with Gillis’ description. Much of the criticism of Gillis is from radical feminists who screech at even the…

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General Ulysses S. Grant, who, on military matters, was an undoubted expert, knew next to nothing about music, once claiming to have known only two tunes. “One of them is ‘Yankee Doodle,’” he confessed. “And the other isn’t.” He and I, I’m afraid, are not so far apart. I too know only one tune, and it isn’t “Yankee Doodle.” In fact, it’s the theme song from “Chariots of Fire…

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The clocks are striking thirteen months since Charlie Kirk was publicly executed—shot through the neck while speaking to a crowd at Utah Valley University. His bloody assassination was seen by millions, thanks to the often-devilish dynamic of the internet. Many saw the footage of a life being snuffed out in a second without knowing what they were about to see—and they were shaken, sickened…

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“And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.” Here, we have one of the countless instances of struggle in Holy Scripture. The idea that man could wrestle with God—indeed, that he would even need to—is difficult to comprehend. What a beautiful manifestation of divine providence that, like Jacob, we are forced to wrestle with passages like this. In the end…

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Have you ever wondered why AI leaders like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei seem so, well, weird? Why do they work relentlessly to build advanced AI models while also warning that their creations could spell the end of the world? In a word, TESCREAL. You’ve probably never heard of it. It looks like a typo or some kind of gibberish, but TESCREAL represents a growing movement—a movement I’d…

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We have an education crisis on our hands and, as a result, the blood of a great many victims. I am not referring to the state of formal education, including, sadly, at many schools that call themselves Catholic. Rather, I am referring to the lack of awareness of the truth about certain social and moral issues of our time—issues the Catholic Church has very clear positions on, yet a great number of…

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The international Mariological conference in Rome De Maria numquam satis recently concluded. Notably, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke and Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller publicly defended the title “Co-Redemptrix.” Cardinal Müller’s defense is particularly interesting, since he was previously critical of it. The conference occurred almost one year after the publication of Mater Populi Fidelis (MPF)…

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A priest, whom I will not name, asked all the men to stay behind after Holy Mass. It was the COVID-19 pandemic. It was an opportunity. Father needed to refill the ranks of his altar servers. So, he waited for all the ladies to depart and asked for volunteers. Then a strange thing happened. A greater solution presented itself. Should girls be altar servers? Or not? This debate is a luxury.

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