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Pope Francis Is A Leftist And Must Be Called Out
Don’t pick a political fight with Pope Francis? The title of Rachel Lu’s recent essay and the timidity behind it reminds me of a old Jewish joke. Max and Moishe are being escorted to the execution...
View ArticleIs The Catholic Church Drifting Into Eco-Spirituality?
Is Catholicism on a slide into nature mysticism? It is a discomforting question for a Catholic to ask, but it bears scrutiny. Messianic environmentalism is about to assume the status of dogma in Pope...
View ArticleWhere Did Pope Francis’s Extravagant Rant Come From?
Subversion of Christianity by the spirit of the age has been a hazard down the centuries. The significance of “Laudato Si” lies beyond its stated concern for the climate. Discount obfuscating religious...
View ArticleThe Breasted Gent And What to Call Him
An aging man makes a last grab at the brass ring of glamour once earned, now dissipated. Razzle-dazzle aside, it is a melancholy spectacle. Caitlyn Jenner himself is more an object of compassion than...
View ArticlePope Francis Ushers The Second Coming Of Peronism
“Peronism may be a good example of the high cost of social reform when it is indulged in a rhetorical and at times high-handed and arbitrary way.”— Guido Di Tella, “Perón-Perón 1973-1976.” Even now,...
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Che Guevara’s Pope
We must struggle every day so that this love of humanity becomes a reality. — Che Guevara I am writing this on the eve of Pope Francis’ address to the joint session of Congress. Permit me a confession...
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We Allow Planned Parenthood Because We Hate Mortality
Doctor, Doctor, will I die? Yes, my child, And so shall I. —Anonymous rhyme Forgive me for withdrawing from the outrage over recent videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. Don’t think I am...
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Mizzou Is What Happens When We Allow Too Much Privacy
I saw the forty-second president of the United States leaving Starbucks one morning last week. Carrying their coffee, he and his single Secret Service escort could pass as ordinary locals. Bill, in...
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Behind Our Lack Of Personal Responsibility Is A Refusal To Confess Sins
Dead actors rise out of old film cans to remind us who we once were. Alfred Hitchock’s “I Confess” was released in 1953. A flawed gem, the movie could hardly be made today. Who would be its audience?...
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Why Anti-Catholicism Will Rise
To think that God acts in history by the intermediary of the political actions of man, revolutionary or conservative, is the complete opposite of hope. — Jacques Ellul When the future looks back on...
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What Vintage Pulp Fiction Covers Say About Today’s Vices
In a morally weightless culture, moral grotesques run for public office, write books about themselves, give speeches, gab with Charlie Rose. Shame is as alien and unnatural as dentures. If art is...
View ArticleTrump: The Art Of The Brand
Earlier in the primary circus, Roger Kimball observed that Donald Trump’s vulgarity was the only authentic thing about him. It was a good line—and the perfect prologue to last week’s gleeful report...
View ArticlePope Francis Betrays Christianity By Romanticizing Poverty
Writing in Forbes last year, Steve Moore, a Catholic, asked: “What is the theological case for telling those in the poorest villages of the planet where people still live at subsistence levels, that...
View ArticleA Free Society Is The Common Enemy Of Radical Islam And The Left
It has been a quarter-century since the Crown Heights riots in August 1991. The driver of a car in the Rebbe Menachem Schneerson’s motorcade lost control and accidentally killed a seven-year-old black...
View ArticleCan’t We Just Mourn The Police Instead Of Exploiting Their Deaths?
Handwringing of the PC kind is a ritual exertion in my solidly Democrat town. Chappaqua is not called the Upper Upper West Side for nothing. On July 11, our town board organized a “Community Gathering...
View ArticleWas Jacques Hamel A Martyr To The Faith Or To His Illusions About Islam?
Before the Rev. Jacques Hamel’s blood dried on the floor of his church, calls went out to place him on the fast track to sainthood. Hashtag beatification spread through Twitter: #santosubito, or “make...
View ArticleBecause The Incarnate Matters, E-Readers Can Never Replace Real Books
I feel about Kindle the way St. Augustine felt about chastity: someday, Lord, but please not yet. In the by-and-by I will get one, if only because books by Richard Fernandez can only be “auto-delivered...
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Christians Shouldn’t Approach Today’s World As If It’s Pagan Rome
One thing everybody knows about Rome is that it fell. Just why it did is still debated. Classicists can count 200-plus reasons for the dissolution—or evolution—of what was once the known world’s...
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Feminists Blazed The Trail For Donald Trump’s Vulgarity
We are no longer drifting Left. The polls tell us we are hurtling hard-left on class warfare rhetoric and its handmaiden, gender demagoguery. Meanwhile, networks and pundits are in a frenzy to tut-tut...
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Catholics Should Condemn Hillary’s Real Crimes, Not Her Staffers’ Email Comments
Forgive me if I do not join the chorus calling for John Podesta’s resignation or—drumroll—a pro-forma apology from Hillary Clinton for derisive comments by her staffers about Catholics. Hillary Clinton...
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