by | Dec 11, 2024

Most people don’t follow the Catholic news cycle regularly, and there’s a good reason: In recent years, it’s been a web of entangled finances, bishop appointments, and meetings that concluded by affirming the need for more meetings while accomplishing little…

by | Jul 29, 2024

On Friday, the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris opened with a blasphemous mockery of Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, which featured drag queens and gay icons. On today’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, cohosts Ellie Gardey Holmes and…

by | Jul 16, 2024

False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America By Joy Pullmann  (Regnery, 336 pages, $28) Now that we’ve been relieved from a month of nonstop displays of color and parading from the alphabet soup brigade, we can all…

by | May 8, 2024

The Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday that it will be rolling out a new name: Scouting America. The change was made in the name of making girls feel included. “This will be a simple but very important evolution as…

by and | Feb 24, 2024

Rolling Stone’s cover of actress Kristen Stewart made headlines last week as a perfect example of how vulgarity frequently masks incompetence in Hollywood. On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay are here to discuss Hollywood trends in an…

by | Jan 6, 2024

It didn’t take long for the world to respond — in a veritable firestorm — to the Vatican’s release of Fiducia supplicans just three weeks ago. Within days, images of priests donning vestments and blessing homosexual couples in front of…

by | Dec 18, 2023

When Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann asked priests, deacons, and lay pastoral workers in the German Diocese of Speyer to offer blessings for same-sex unions and remarried couples early last month, his letter made international news — and it should have. That’s…

by | Dec 14, 2023

A few columns ago, I addressed the subject of what it takes for one to be “obnoxiously gay,” a description that I applied to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg in my 2022 book The Revivalist Manifesto, which recently returned to…

by | Nov 17, 2023

As expected, conservative Christians are up in arms over yet another gay Hallmark Christmas film.  And as expected, pro-LGBT people and their allies are up in arms over conservative Christians being up in arms over it. Talk about algorithms subsuming…

by | Nov 13, 2023

I just finished reading Thomas Mallon’s fine historical novel Fellow Travelers and now look forward to seeing the Showtime mini-series that it inspired. Against the backdrop of the McCarthy era, these works concern the Lavender Scare: Gay Americans in the federal government were targeted as…

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