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by | Jan 3, 2023

The man who was likely the most important intellectual of the last century has died. And it is also likely that it will take us a long time to realize it. Pope Benedict XVI died just as he lived, because…

by | Dec 29, 2022

I graduated in 1994 from the Jesuit University of San Francisco (USF), a school drenched in the heresy and scandal that have come to define the modern Jesuit order. I can still remember my first day at the school. It…

by | Oct 30, 2022

There’s many a curious way to mark Halloween. I’ve told Bob Tyrrell, founder of this venerable publication, about a fellow columnist of mine at the Pitt News in the late 1980s, Mario Oliverio. Like many young conservatives of our generation,…

by | Aug 28, 2022

Every Hispanic should vote Republican this November, if only to deter America’s devolution into the kind of Marxist banana republic many of them fled from, myself among them. All the elements are there — a corrupt caudillo issuing decrees far…

by | Aug 15, 2022

A Canadian-based writer named Daniel Panneton has written an article in the Atlantic that claims that “radical traditional” Catholics have “weapon[ized]” the rosary. Panneton’s article is titled “How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-Opt the Rosary,” and its subtitle…

by | Aug 13, 2022

Ireland was once famous for dispatching Catholic missionaries to pagan lands. But now an increasingly secularized Ireland needs missionaries sent to it. The once-pious island has gone from saving civilization to losing it, plunging into a hedonistic culture that promotes…

by | Jun 4, 2022

John Quinn, the late archbishop of San Francisco, was one of the most liberal prelates in the post-Vatican II Church in America. A few years before he died, he told a group of priests that Pope Francis had blessed his…

by | May 21, 2022

After four decades of apparently losing the argument that the 17th-century English philosopher John Locke was religious and not a hedonistic utilitarian, I apparently recently proved my case here in The American Spectator so well that Locke is now being…

by | May 2, 2022

The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has publicly supported Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine and even called it “sacred,” but Pope Francis has not denounced him. Instead, Francis has avoided even offering a mild critique of Kirill…

by | Jan 11, 2022

Neal Freeman wrote last week in The American Spectator that the “National Conservatives,” as they style themselves, and Christopher DeMuth, the chairman of the two conferences the NatCons have held, have chosen to “move on” (as Freeman puts it) from…

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