The coming papal conclave is just days away and, within days or weeks of the doors to the Sistine Chapel closing, the Catholic Church will have a new pontiff. The coming days and weeks will be exciting and crucial not…
As the Catholic Church prepares to select its next pope following the death of Pope Francis, speculation continues to rise about who that man will be. (WATCH: The Weekend Spectator Ep. 37: A Catholic and a Protestant on the Pope)…
“The stone the builders have rejected has become the cornerstone.” Psalm 118: 22 One of the most famous of all Shakespeare quotes — “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” (As You Like It)…
For centuries, Poland was one of the most devoutly Catholic nations in Europe. While the country still has a reputation as a rare bastion of conservative Catholic culture in an ever-more-loudly roaring sea of secularism and degeneracy, anti-Catholicism is on…
American Catholics ought to be alarmed but, in a way, inspired by some recent statistics on the Catholic faith in the U.S. The Pew Research Center published its Religious Landscape Study recently, including an analysis of the habits, beliefs, and…
On March 7, Paul Kengor, editor of The American Spectator, delivered a talk on “The Marxist Roots of International Women’s Day” at the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women in Herndon, Virginia. C-SPAN brought its cameras and recorded the moment…
I was saddened last week to learn of the unexpected death of Tony Dolan, who passed away at age 76. Tony was the chief speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan in a “speechwriting shop” (as he called it) that included a…
The ACLU of Massachusetts is complaining that a proposed statue depicting St. Michael the Archangel stepping on the neck of a demon, very common Catholic religious imagery, evokes the image of George Floyd being stepped on the neck by the…
When rattling off the names of those who have played a pivotal role in shaping Western civilization, figures such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Henry V, Christopher Columbus, William Shakespeare, the American Founding Fathers, Napoleon…
