For decades, conservative responses to ecclesiastical progressivism have largely resembled conservative responses elsewhere: We’ve left. A group of young conservatives within mainline American Christianity wants to flip this paradigm on its head with what they’ve dubbed Operation Reconquista. The idea…
The Catholic Church once canonized martyrs who were flayed alive, burned at the stake, torn apart by lions — all for refusing to renounce their faith. Today, it flirts with beatifying a teenager because he built a few websites and…
German dictator Adolf Hitler once set out to destroy the Catholic Church: his regime shut down Catholic schools and arrested priests and nuns, imprisoning them en masse in the infamous concentration camps. Many were executed. According to some historical sources,…
On July 16, 2021, Pope Francis released the apostolic letter Traditionis custodes, a special papal motu proprio that sought to enforce specific guidelines on the liturgy of the Catholic Mass. According to the language of the document, this was done,…
Chiara Corbella Petrillo lived a saintly life, honoring the sanctity of life and devotion to God. As her and her husband excitedly started a family, she suffered multiple difficult pregnancies, but never gave up on life. In the midst of…
Who, I ask, is afraid of Christian nationalism? From the looks of it, quite a few. Many of whom, it must be said, don’t fully understand what they’re reacting to. Christian nationalism has become the latest bogeyman of elite opinion. It’s…
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…
Rabbles, Riots and Ruins By Mike Aquilina (Ignatius Press, 206 pages, $16) I think I have by now read ten or so of Mr. Aquilina’s books, and find myself ever putting down his latest with a combination of satisfaction and…
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…
