Commentary
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Founders’ Gift and Its New American Enemies
During our nation’s 250th anniversary there will be, unfortunately, dozens of academic conferences focusing on the “flaws” of our founding and of its approach to natural rights. Some of these events are downright bizarre. A major conference in…
Renewing Benedict XVI’s theological inheritance
A new organisation dedicated to fostering a renewed sense of ‘Catholic identity’ based on the vision of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI took flight in Rome last week, marking the 99th birthday of the late German pontiff. The new Benedict XVI Society…
Trump, Leo, and the Death of Integralism
There is a Yiddish witticism, Der Mensch tracht, un Gott lacht (“Man plans, and God laughs”), and recent events suggest the divine has a particularly puckish sense of humor. No sooner had his political lobbyists begun to gain traction with their…