The Law of the Heart is Love
by Thomas J. PaprockiThe Catholic Church teaches that pride is the deadliest of the deadly sins, so it is something to be avoided, along with lust, not celebrated. Continue Reading »
The Wimps of Summer
by George WeigelOver the past several weeks, the Dodgers have demonstrated a cringe-inducing cravenness in the face of woke pressures. Continue Reading »
Naaman, the Nazarenes, and the Germans
by George WeigelWhen the German Synodal Way declares that it knows better than God about what makes for righteous living, happiness, and ultimate beatitude, it is behaving exactly like Adam and Eve, Naaman before his conversion, and the Nazarenes. Continue Reading »
Against Genius
by Ephraim Radner“This is the main road God takes to come to us: our recognition of our own ignorance.” So said Stephen of Muret, a medieval hermit and purported founder of the Grandmontine order of monks that disappeared in the eighteenth century. The idea that wisdom comes from admitting our own ignorance was . . . . Continue Reading »
How Not To Lead
by Charles J. ChaputPolitical discretion on the world stage can never be an excuse for local bishops to avoid speaking the truth, and—worse—to decline to provide counsel and encouragement to faithful Catholic public officials seeking their support. Continue Reading »
Pride Month and Public Decency
by Pavlos Leonidas PapadopoulosIs our “sweet land of liberty” really all about grown men dressing up as hyper-sexualized caricatures of women, taking over the public square, and insisting that society celebrate them? Continue Reading »
Greetings from the Rainbow Reich
by R. R. RenoThe Rainbow Reich and its agenda of cultural deregulation is the natural partner to the most ambitious programs of economic deregulation, which is why corporate American embraces it. Both destroy protections of the weakest and most vulnerable in the name of “freedom.” Continue Reading »
Queer Nation Is No Nation At All
by Carl R. TruemanIf the Pride flag cannot even hold together the community for which it claims to stand, how can it possibly offer a stable vision for a nation and its national culture? Continue Reading »
Our Rainbow Regime
by R. R. RenoThe time is coming, perhaps soon, when our elites will suppress the American flag and wave all the more insistently the rainbow substitute. Continue Reading »
Pitiful Pride
by Carl R. TruemanThe rainbow is not a symbol of human autonomy. Quite the contrary; it is a sign of our dependence. Continue Reading »
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