Gloria Steinem died last week at the age of 92. I do not know much about her other than what most people know: namely, that she was one of—if not the—fiercest proponents of abortion, even to the extreme of celebrating the act. I am not going to spend this post denouncing her; I think that would be purposeless for readers of Crisis. Rather, I shall try to offer an understanding of her—and not only…

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After a recent Sunday Mass, I overheard two elderly ladies talking and had an instant flashback to the heydays of post Second Vatican Council. The one lady was saying, with an air of authority, that “the Gospel is, after all, supposed to be proclaimed, not read!” I was not privy to the rest of the conversation, and I wasn’t about to intrude. I mention it only because it got me thinking about…

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After witnessing the crisis occurring in sedevacantism (described in Part I of this series) and making a metaphysical diagnosis based on Thomistic analysis (detailed in Part II), I realized that in allying myself with a sedevacantist chapel, I had made a grave mistake. I had attempted to fight Modernism using non-Catholic remedies: radical autonomy and belief in Calvinistic total depravity.

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Gregory Pierce, author of Spirituality at Work, wrote, “We spend so much time at work it would be a shame if we couldn’t find God there!” I propose that we can find God at work and, more specifically, that our work life, when properly discerned and fully engaged, provides a unique road to discovery of the transcendent and that the quest to give meaning to our work is a deeply spiritual enterprise.

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In a letter written to a friend in 1935, Georges Bernanos—France’s foremost Catholic writer, whose essays and stories are filled with the most searing and prophetic insight into God and the things of God—announced his intention to write a novel about an obscure country priest who, he declared, “will have served God in exact proportion to his belief that he has served Him badly” but…

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A judge has granted former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky an evidentiary hearing to examine his key accuser’s desire to recant his testimony that he had been sexually abused by the coach. The accuser, known as Victim 10, who testified for the prosecution, now claims that Sandusky never abused him. Alleging that prosecutors coached him in order to steer his testimony and asked him to…

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The birth of the Church took place on the first Pentecost Day when the Holy Spirit came down onto and into Our Lady and the apostles before 9 o’clock in the morning. Because Our Lady was Immaculately Conceived, there were no barriers in her to prevent the Holy Spirit totally possessing her and therefore reuniting her with her beloved Son—now Risen and glorified—in a way that would not be possible…

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Done correctly, the terrible moment in which a villain sees himself as he truly is—his anagnorisis—can be one of the most powerful type-scenes in all of literature. The accumulated sins of weeks or years funnel to a single instant of dread recognition. With repentance unthinkable, the villain embraces his role, firmly and finally casting aside the tattered rags of pretended altruism…

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Andrew Kolvet of Turning Point USA and Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire recently triggered a firestorm on social media with a post about how burritos shouldn’t cost so much. The $20 Burrito Tweet touched a nerve with many, and it quickly became its own Rorschach test. As some had it, the $20 burrito is a figment of your imagination—the ingredients to make burritos at home cost significantly less…

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“Stop Moving the Tabernacle!” exclaims Michael Sean Winters in the National Catholic Reporter. His cri de coeur comes from the renovation of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Norwich, Connecticut, which restored the tabernacle to the center of the former altar, on the main axis of the cathedral. Winters laments that at least three other cathedrals have restored the tabernacle to “the central focal point…

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