Who Will Safeguard the Sheep?
OPINION – The attack on the Traditional Latin Mass in Tyler, Texas this weekend has gobsmacked us all, both traditional and Novus Ordo Catholics. Why now? Why on the first anniversary of the loss of our dear bishop? The fact that the apostolic administrator,...
Living on Borrowed Time
OPINION – We’re living on borrowed time. Election Day is immovably looming ahead, like the last feature on a roll through Freddy Fear’s House of Scares. We’re clicking toward it, buckled in with the master switch thrown to lock us in our seats. I try to make the...
American Cristeros
OPINION – In 1927, Yocundo Durán was on his way home in Chihuahua, Mexico, when he crossed paths with a Federal. The Federal general recognized him as a Knight of Columbus and summarily ordered his execution. Durán’s bullet-torn body was delivered to his family...
Braced for the Quake
OPINION – As a nation, we’re going broke—in multiple senses. But what I call the Scarlett O’Hara Defense (“I’ll think about it tomorrow”) and psychologists call “normalcy bias” allows us to go about our semi-normal lives even when the country has no leader, is...
Why Trump?
OPINION – It’s not about political policy. People with opposing policies don’t murder each other, no matter how much they disagree. You may tell me there are lefties on Twitter who do love murder, who openly call for the death of their opponents, those who...
Jesus Thirsts, As Do We All
OPINION – No matter what you think of the USCCB, the National Eucharistic Revival, or the odds of its success… that’s not important now. On Pentecost Sunday, the 6,000-mile journey of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, from the four boundaries of the United States,...
The Guerrilla Warfare of Journaling
OPINION – I began a daily journal on March 15, 2020, when everything solid turned liquid. I had just written a letter to Bishop Burns of Dallas, begging him, for pity’s sake, not to close the churches like Boston and Newark had done. I naïvely hoped such...
Wildcat: Flannery for Rookies
OPINION – I appreciate that cigar culture has finer points, but the smell of cigars still makes me queasy. Likewise, Flannery O’Connor. She is an acquired taste, and this review of Wildcat, the new biodrama of O’Connor, is written from the perspective of one who...
