Commentary
The Church of England is confused
The Church of England is confused. In truth, it has been ever since the Act of Supremacy and King Henry VIII’s removal of the prayers for the Pope from the Mass. Always a rather ephemeral thing, it has wrestled back and forth in a perpetual…
Can Unity Be Built Without Truth? Lessons From Sarah Mullally’s Vatican Visit
If ecumenism is to have integrity, it must be built not on gestures that obscure reality, but on a shared submission to the truth Christ embodies. The post Can Unity Be Built Without Truth? Lessons From Sarah…
A new history of the unrecognized martyrs of the Christian militia orders
A review of Raymond Ibrahim’s The Two Swords of Christ: Five Centuries of War Between Islam and the Warrior Monks of Christendom. Since the Roman emperor Constantine legalized and patronized Christianity, our Faith has regularly been tied up…
The Vatican’s Feting of the First Female Archbishop of Canterbury
Rather than aiding Christian unity, Rome’s exuberant welcome of Sarah Mullally is likely to be a stumbling block to reaching it. The post The Vatican’s Feting of the First Female Archbishop of Canterbury…
When Envy Turns Apocalyptic – The Catholic Thing
Peter Thiel’s recently leaked lectures on the Antichrist—recorded secretly and published last year by The Guardian—reveal a worldview aligned with the apocalyptic anthropology of René Girard, the late theorist of mimetic desire and end-times…
What happened to my old parish?
When I moved back to my native Boston area as an adult with a young family, we found a home just a couple of blocks from the house where I had lived as a child—and where my parents still lived. The proximity to the children’s grandparents was a…
The Resurrection of the Body
We are in Eastertide, and not only do we rejoice in Christ’s Resurrection, but we rejoice too in what this means for our own bodies: at the Final Judgement our bodies too will finally be released from their graves to be restored to our souls.…
Catholic Bishop’s Empty Moralizing – The Catholic Thing
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops made an ill-considered intervention in the legal battle over birthright citizenship. After taking office in 2025, Donald Trump issued an executive order stipulating that those in residence in the…
Happy “St. George Wasn’t Even English” Day!
It’s that most wonderful time of the year. April 23rd: St. George’s Day. A time to commemorate England’s patron saint and celebrate what England and the English have given the world (apart from constant apologies). Extraordinary and lasting…
Born without ‘mama’: the inconvenient truth about surrogacy
A five-month-old baby, reaching instinctively for ‘mama’, is met not with recognition but with laughter. Behind the camera, two fathers mock the child’s cry, captioning the moment with a glib ‘who’s going to tell him’. It was posted by Shane…