Malcolm Muggeridge. “The coming of Jesus into the world is the most stupendous event in human history. . . . As it is, belonging to a civilization which began with the birth of Jesus some two thousand years ago, and reaching the conclusion—to me inescapable—that whatever is truly admirable in the achievements of the succeeding… Read More Fiat Lux. Into History Comes the Light
God and Nihilism in Nietzsche and Sartre. “Nietzsche is often associated with the proclamation, “God is dead,” which does not mean the literal death of God but the collapse of traditional religious beliefs and the loss of objective values. Nietzsche critiqued traditional morality, seeing it as a product of the weak, which suppresses human potential.… Read More Life, Death and Last Words of Jean Paul Sartre
Overview of Fetal Tissue Research Policy Changes in 2026 / In 2026, significant changes were made regarding the use of human fetal tissue in research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). These changes reflect a shift towards alternative research models and address ethical… Read More Overview of Fetal Tissue Research Policy Changes in 2026
“It is fashionable for Catholic liberals to decry the pre-conciliar Church as concerned with little more than personal piety and indifferent to the injustice and suffering in the world. This is a monstrous travesty of the truth as every adult Catholic must surely know. Never in the history of our planet has so much concern… Read More Michael Davies on the Merciful, Ever Welcoming Pre-Vatican II Church
Christian parents must be both gentle and strong without ever becoming brutish. They must try to encourage their children to make their faith in Christ real and to give to the poor and seek the Good always; but they must also become a wall of resistance against disrespect, illicit drugs, and imbecilic conformity to the… Read More Christian Parents and Grandparents In Anarchic Times
Julius Caesar is remembered as a brilliant general, political reformer, and one of the central figures in Rome’s transformation from republic to empire. But his rise was built partly on extraordinary violence. During his conquest of Gaul, Caesar’s forces massacred civilians, enslaved large populations, and attempted to annihilate the Eburones while inflicting catastrophic losses on the… Read More The Dark Truth About Julius Caesar
So-called ‘Liberals’ have a philosophical problem in this country and beyond. On the one hand they heartily indulge and enjoy the sexual anarchy granted by successive regimes since the 1950’s and 1960’s; on the other hand they tend to deplore the lawlessness of American foreign policy / imperialism / warmaking. They do not see that… Read More When the State is Ultimate
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis. On the Question of the Foundations: and Approaches of Exegesis Today by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1988 (later Pope Benedict XVI) In Wladimir Solowjew’s History of the Antichrist, the eschatological enemy of the Redeemer recommended himself to believers, among other things, by the fact that he had earned his doctorate in theology… Read More Biblical Interpretation in Crisis — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1988
The Bible has been copied by hand for thousands of years. So how do we know the version we have today hasn’t been corrupted? The answer lies in thousands of ancient manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the evidence of history. Debunkers like Bart Ehrman say we can’t trust the Bible. I say it’s time… Read More Dinesh D’Souza on the Reliability of Biblical Manuscripts
“What did Elizabeth I say about Anne Boleyn? Though the last Tudor monarch rarely mentioned her infamous mother, who was the second wife of Henry VIII, she did make the occasional reference to her, whether in word, in writing or in art. In this Tudor Queens documentary from History Calling I take you through all… Read More What Did Elizabeth I Say About Anne?
Site Summation – updated – Chat Gpt Catholic Critique presents itself as “Christian World View & Analysis,” edited by Stephen Hand. Its stated purpose is not formal teaching but the sharing of opinions, interpretive principles, excerpts, reflections, and outside resources judged helpful in spiritually challenging times. The site repeatedly frames itself as Catholic, Christ-centered, culturally… Read More Catholic Critique — Alphabetical & Topic Index
The hope behind this website has always been that every article selected, whether positive or relatively negative, would in some way lead to contemplation of the Word made flesh (Jn.1:1-14) and His savings acts for us, and “not for us only but also for the whole world.” (1 Jn 2:2). For “God was in Christ… Read More Catholic Critique
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,and has lifted up the lowly.He has filled the hungry with good things,and the rich he has sent away empty.He has come to the help of his servant Israelfor he has remembered his promise of mercy,the promise he made to our fathers,to Abraham and his children forever.… Read More Jesus and the Poor
Originally published here Oct. 3, 2021. By Gary Potter. “The Enlightenment” is the name by which are known both an intellectual movement and an historical period usually considered as having begun in the 17th century and reaching their height in the 18th. However, insofar as ideas spawned by the movement — ideas about God, authority,… Read More The Enlightenment Is Not Over
“Never be discouraged, and no matter what fault you happen to commit, say: Though I should fall twenty times, or a hundred times a day, I will arise at every fall, and pursue my course. What does it amount to, after all, that you should have met with some accidents on the way, provided you… Read More St. Francis de sales’ on the Great Battle
If Frank Sinatra’s music, which I obviously enjoy, entertains and only rarely is, in a sense, contemplative or thought-provoking (e.g., The album Watertown), Joni Mitchell, whose mid-to-later recordings which I have been listening to lately, tends to reflect a more serious or at least more interesting perception of the world and cultures along with music… Read More Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Joni Mitchell
Monsignor Karel Kasteel Talks About His Experience and thoughts throughout that long period. His reflections are his own. CNS: Now 92, Monsignor Kasteel has witnessed some of the most consequential moments in the modern history of the Catholic Church, including the Second Vatican Council, the 2005 conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI, and decades of change… Read More He worked in the Vatican for 70 years. Served 8 Popes.
Conversion to Truth, while totally fulfilling, is never a light matter (Jn. 14:6; Mt. 11:28-39), because the Truth is the Cross, and the Cross is no picnic. “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” — Jn. 16:33 Jn. 15:20,21 “Remember the word that I said to you,… Read More Converts who take root learn fast that the Church and the Cross are one.
Musk will lead a Pentagon study alongside Palmer Luckey, the 34-year-old co-founder of defense technology company Anduril Industries, and Newt Gingrich, the 83-year-old Republican former House speaker AFP – Tech billionaire Elon Musk will make a return to officially advising US President Donald Trump’s government by co-leading what the Pentagon called a study on the… Read More Elon Musk to advise Trump government on the future of warfare.
Updated. Can there be any doubt Carlson and Candace are friends or admirers of the pseudo scholar who scribbles Big Books faster than the speed of thought? As if brilliance in error equals good and true judgements! Have you noticed that Carlson, Jones and certain Big Trads won’t even breathe the name of this website… Read More Crazy Carlson: Utterly Indifferent to Der Fuhrer
“Someone said, drink the water, but I will drink the wineSomeone said, take a poor man, rich folk don’t have a dime Go fool yourselves if you will, I just haven’t got the timeYes you can drink the water (yes you can drink the water)But I will drink the wine Someone gave me some small… Read More Time Out: Favorite Son, Bad Boy Brother Frank
Steven Shaviro in his interesting book No Speed Limit writes, “Science fiction takes up certain implicit conditions of our personal and social lives, and makes these conditions fully explicit in narrative. It picks out “futuristic” trends that are already embedded within our actual social and technological situation. These trends are not literal matters of fact,… Read More Accelerationist Thinkers, Short-sighted Capitalists and Marx
And why others leave it for the same. From his masterpiece, Witness 1952: “I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time. You will ask: Why, then, do men become Communists? How did it happen that you, our gentle and loved father, were once a Communist? Were you simply stupid? No, I was… Read More Whittaker Chambers: Why men become Communists for moral reasons…
Aldous Huxley on the Technocratic Dictatorship seeking to be born. “…democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old… Read More Aldous Huxley on an Emerging ‘Scientific’ Dictatorship…
Marriage, children and grandparents. The reason men have always, when necessary, fought and died to protect the women they love is not only romantic or sentimental. It is, rather, because, in her mystery, woman carries the future. She is that sacred gift who sustains a people and life itself. To encourage women to join the… Read More She Carries the Future
“In the context of Christian liturgy, a canticle is a psalm-like song with biblical lyrics taken from elsewhere than the Book of Psalms, but included in psalters and books such as the breviary. — Wikipedia. St. Paul says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in… Read More The Gift of Canticles for One Another
Updated. One of the Grand Architects of the Iraqi War which sent hundreds of thousands of Iraqis into the Afterlife loves the Pope. The atheist Manipulator par excellance and host of the Leftist podcast The Rest is Communism, I mean Politics! —loves Leo XIV because Campbell is the great cynic and he perceives Leo, rightly… Read More Alastair Campbell Loves the Pope
“As scientists study nature, they observe that certain things happen with astounding regularity. One of the things that happens regularly is that living things always come from other living things. Scientists have known this for many years. In 1858, a German scientist by the name of Rudolph Virchow stated it like this: “Every cell arises… Read More Pasteur showed that life only comes from life. The Law of biogenesis.
See also, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and a New World Order. Our complex theological predicament, which only the hierarchical Church may, in time, formally adjudicate, appears to be here to stay — until the Parousia. By Stephen Hand. 2015. If Francis and Cardinal Kasper have taught us anything over the past few years, it’s… Read More John XXIII, Benedict XVI and Francis. 2015.
+ Kissinger’s final warning and the Antichristic: “Prepare now for ‘superhuman’ people to control Earth…Kissinger’s co-authors, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and longtime Microsoft senior executive Craig Mundie’s bracing message, warning that AI tools have already started outpacing human capabilities so people might need to consider biologically engineering themselves to ensure they are not rendered… Read More Closer to Midnight? The Signs and Wonders of Elon Musk.
9/30/26. Updated. Is there more reason to beware? Sacred Scripture says “The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with lying signs and wonders” —2 Thessalonians 2:9. Blessings to those who are helped. They receive gifts despite the means which in the hands of men like… Read More They will make the blind to see and the lame to walk…
Saint Alphonsus Liguori on the “ordinary” and sometimes daily sins of people who consider themselves blameless, innocent. “The whispering tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.”—James 3:6… Read More Gossip, Whisperers & Detraction: “Triple Murder”
“Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, 25 of which I became a minister according to the divine office which was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully… Read More The Cross. Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen. 1954.
Note: What to make of this. Our (former SSPX!) priest and I both appreciate some of Thomas Merton’s writings, as you might know, but our stance is critical, not naive or magisterial in any left-wing sense. That is the approach this website takes towards many thinkers on many subjects: take the wheat and leave the… Read More Merton’s Criticisms of Easter Liturgy. Circa 1968.
Are modern smartphones and algorithms destroying our capacity for deep thought? In this video essay, Dr. Ryan Topping breaks down the science of attention, addresses 3 myths of the digital mind, and provides 4 practical, tactical skills to master hard books and rebuild your focus.
In her biography of G.K. Chesterton published in 1943, Maisie Ward tells of this remarkable trait of the great convert and Catholic apologist: “(He) liked everybody very much, and everything very much. He liked even the things most of us dislike. He liked to get wet. He liked to be tired. After…[a particular period of]… Read More G. K. Chesterton and The Eternal Thank You
+ John Paul II on the most decisive confrontation and “history’s last lap.” Karol Wojtyla (St.JPII) wrote, “A non-Catholic philosopher once said to me: ‘You know, I just can’t stop myself reading and rereading and thinking over the first three chapters of Genesis.’ And indeed it seems to me that unless one does so reflect… Read More Popes St. John Paul II and St. Pius X on the AntiWord
Hard Sayings. “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience [in suffering in Him] and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” of redemption. — Romans 15:4 John 15 18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the… Read More More Terrible Times to Come for Many Christian Families.
Is Zohran Mamdani the tip of the spear we’ve seen too often in history? Rori Stewart and Alastair Campbell gush for the Socialist (see below). Of course they would. Who are his big money backers? Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote, “Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it… Read More The Lessons of Mao’s Cultural Revolution
“One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: “Beauty will save the world”. What sort of a statement is that? For a long time I considered it mere words. How could that be possible? When in bloodthirsty history did beauty ever save anyone from anything? Ennobled, uplifted, yes – but whom has it saved? In… Read More One Word of Truth. Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
The Last Waltz – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: Levon Helm leads The Band through a passionate take of the Civil War-inspired song, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”.
