The problem when standing on the mountaintop is that you also may be standing at the precipice. That appears to be the situation facing Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping. His word is law, but that leaves him with…
When Pope Francis announced last July that he would create 21 new cardinals, longtime Vatican watcher John L. Allen Jr. immediately noted the significant number of “papabili” — possible papal candidates — on the list. Of these candidates, Allen noted…
“Hello, I am Freya. I make a deal with demons for my rituals and spells, so all my spells come true.” So proclaims the introduction to an Etsy shop that sells “Special Black Magic” for the price of $135.52 —…
If you’d like to see a movie about a saint utterly gutted of religious meaning this Lenten season, piqued by a perverse curiosity of what such a spectacle might look like, then go see Cabrini. It’s quite the marvel: a…
“Jesus Loves You. Jesus is there for you when you need him,” reads a children book at the Barnes & Noble bookstore almost four years after lockdowns descended. With what children and teens endured, the book might as well say,…
A couple of days ago, while on my way to the train’s cafeteria, I bumped into an overly wide lady wearing overly narrow heels. Her heel dug into my foot violently, and, amid the silence of the carriage, my outburst…
We are the conservatives, and we like good, truth, and beauty. That is, we like Pope John Paul II, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Ivanka Trump. We also like beer, but I don’t want to detract from the solemnity of the…
Maybe you’ve heard of Heidi Przybyla. Maybe you haven’t. She’s a reporter at Politico who the leftists at NBC News, who put her on MSNBC all the time, simply love. Przybyla was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, which is…
