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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On Wednesday, more than 300 delegates from around the world will meet at the Vatican for what has become known as the Synod on Synodality — a meeting intended to continue the “three-year process of listening and dialogue” that began…
Since her election last year, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been under fire from the Left for what it deems her “far right” positions on traditional family values — namely, that she has them. So, it is no surprise…
By all appearances, Mike and Catherine “Kitty” Burke would make the perfect foster parents. They were open to taking on siblings and had experience with special needs children — for a state like Massachusetts, overwhelmed with more foster children than…
July 25, 1985, was a red-letter day in the history of the AIDS epidemic. A publicist for the movie star Rock Hudson, who had been looking alarmingly gaunt and was now in hospital, announced that the actor had been diagnosed…