Cases of clergy sexual assault continue to wrack the Catholic Church, and when accusations involve notable Church figures, the scandals unfold in full view of the public. Slovenian priest Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ, gained wide acclaim for his beautiful…
I not only write for The American Spectator but also am among its most voracious readers. Throughout my years at The American Spectator, I always found George Neumayr to be among the very, very best contributors amid a collection of…
It may be hard to believe, but California Gov. Gavin Newsom is Catholic. He was baptized in the Church, attended Catholic elementary schools and a Catholic university, got married in the Catholic Church, and still maintains identification with his faith….
Crowds have been flocking to the Metropolitan Opera to take in a heart-wrenching tale of religious persecution that continues into the next two weekends. Dialogues des Carmélites is one of the most well-respected operas of the 20th century. By opera…
Last Friday night, I attended as a journalist an all-night evangelical prayer service in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The event lasted from 10 p.m. on Friday night and ended at 5 a.m. on Saturday morning. Attending the event proved very useful…
Last Thursday afternoon, I hired a driver from Yango, the Ivory Coast’s version of Uber, to take me to Yamoussoukro, the political capital of Côte d’Ivoire. I wanted to see the Notre Dame Basilica, the largest Catholic church on the continent…
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…
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…
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,…
