John Horvat II 
Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum, is a hard document to characterize. Exhortations are supposed to encourage Catholics in their Faith. However, this document deals with ecological issues and is addressed to “all people of goodwill on the climate crisis.” Thus, the work reads more like an eco-lamentation, a written debate, a … Read more
I have been to many Pubic Square Rosary Rallies over the years, but I never saw one like this one. It was raining hard, and the square appeared to be empty. Every year near October 13, America Needs Fatima holds as many as 23,000 public square rosary rallies nationwide to beseech Our … Read more
Elections are upon us. Once again, we have few good choices, and many will be voting against and not for candidates. The ordeal threatens to become a replay of elections that have come before. The slate of candidates thus far is demoralizing since it represents nothing uplifting. No new generation of brave … Read more
What makes Patrick Deneen’s new book, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future, so controversial is that it is a “post” book. Its dramatic call for regime change rests upon its “post” promise to deliver a radically different new state of things while staying within the present political order. This is not an … Read more
Sen. John Fetterman ignited a firestorm over what is proper to wear in the United States Senate when he appeared in a hoodie and basketball shorts. Even the most casual American observers were struck by the inappropriateness of it all. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer supported his colleague by instructing the chamber’s … Read more
One thing that characterizes the coming Synod of Synodality is its emphasis on listening to other voices. All voices. Catholics are told that “the spirit” speaks through all who are marginalized and excluded. Thus, listening to the widest variety of voices is necessary. In becoming a listening church, the “people of God” … Read more
Since 2021, the Church in Canada has been under siege by leftists who claim Catholic residential schools for Canadian Indians abused children and even caused their deaths at the turn of the twentieth century and beyond. The Church was part of a governmental effort to educate these young yet isolated populations according … Read more
When little Johnny goes to school this fall, he may face another danger. The poor boy already has trouble reading and writing. He suffers from losing social skills and faces an assault upon his innocence through the destructive influence of horrible books and drag queens. It is increasingly common that the boy … Read more
What keeps social order today are not much-needed principles but tattered social habits. Leftover manners from the past provide the basics for getting along. People go through the motions of meeting and greeting, but they have lost the reasons why they do these things. As these old habits gradually fade, people do … Read more
In November of 2020, Oregon voters passed Measure 110, an experiment that liberals hoped would stem the drug addictions and overdoses ravaging the state, especially the city of Portland. Approved by nearly 60 percent of the voters, the measure reduced the punishment for possessing hard drugs, including fentanyl and methamphetamine, to a … Read more