How Critical Theory Paved the Way for Nick Fuentes

CARL R. TRUEMAN

Anyone who can speak about Jews—indeed, about any other member of the human race—as Fuentes does is anti-humanist, one who rejects the notion of humanity and the moral significance that such a concept involves.

Newman and the New Ultramontanism

GEORGE WEIGEL

Progressive ultramontanism is like its reactionary antecedent in that it tries to shore up weak arguments by appeals to papal authority.

On Converting Your Spouse

JEREMY M. CHRISTIANSEN

My wife and had been married about ten years with four children when I left the LDS religion and converted to Catholicism. My wife had no interest in leaving her faith at that time. But eventually, she too became Catholic.

Where the Church’s Immigration Rhetoric Fails

JOHN M. GRONDELSKI

The Church seeks to frame the discussion of illegal immigration through the lens of “human dignity.” But the Church’s selective use of this framing neglects to address the way in which illegal immigration offends human dignity.

When Death Calls at Night

VICTOR M. SWEENEY

Having sat through thousands of funerals, I can tell you a funeral Mass is not the same when the body is missing. The Catholic Church permits cremation, but wisely does not encourage it.

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