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Site summation.
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 critical, and concerned with ecclesial destabilization, secular modernity, post-literacy, scientism, liturgy, philosophy, politics, and consolation.
A recurring note governs the project: any errors are the editor’s own, and final judgments belong to the Church. The site also states that it does not seek donations, but aims to edify, inform, and console.
Alphabetical Index — Working Edition
This is a working index based on visible public pages and archive results. It can be expanded month-by-month into a complete site index.
A
- A.I. Hedges on The Beatles and Astrology. A “Conversation” With Tin Man. — A reflection/conversation on The Beatles, astrology, Paul McCartney, and AI-generated interpretive hedges.
- All Errors Great and Small — Uses Aquinas’ principle that a small initial error becomes great at the end, applying it to metaphysical and cultural discernment.
B
- The Best Defense Against AI is Reading Plato … — Argues that the decline of reading and the humanities leaves people vulnerable to shallow technological culture.
C
- C.S. Lewis and Evolution — Presents C.S. Lewis as a critic of scientism and modern reductionist assumptions.
- C.S. Lewis’ Critique of Scientific Knowledge by Thomas Storck — Explores Lewis’ criticism of scientism: the claim that science alone can discover truth.
- Catholic Critique. If there is any value in this website, please keep your money… — Explains the site’s non-commercial purpose: to share material that may edify, inform, and console.
- Christology and Mariology. Karl Rahner. — Notes on Christology, Mariology, and careful engagement with contested Catholic thinkers.
D
- Dismal Liturgies — Critiques contemporary liturgical practice and perceived loss of reverence.
- Does God send wars as a punishment for sin? — Reflects on war, divine judgment, sin, and Christian eschatological warnings.
- Dostoevsky and Dorothy Day — Connects Dostoevsky’s spiritual drama with Dorothy Day and Catholic Worker themes.
- Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” by N.T. Wright — N.T. Wright’s critique of liberal theological doubt and its assumptions.
- Dr. Arthur Holmes Lectures. A History of Philosophy. — Recommends Arthur Holmes’ philosophy lectures as a reset from news and cultural anxiety.
- Dr. David Berlinski on ‘The Deniable Darwin’ — Introduces Berlinski’s critique of Darwinian certainties and scientific pretensions.
F
- Faith and the Ascendancy of Mammon. Carol Robinson. — Introduces Carol Jackson Robinson and Catholic Worker-related concerns about faith, money, and modernity.
- Fiat Lux. Into History Comes the Light — Malcolm Muggeridge on the Incarnation as the decisive event of history.
G
- Golf is Not the Only Option — Encourages wholesome hobbies, especially piano and chess, as fruitful alternatives in older age.
- Good Fences, Shared Bounty — Reflects on love, boundaries, and willing the good of another.
- Grok A.I. Interpretation of the Current Global Power Configuration — Uses AI to consider global power, multipolarity, and center-right insurgency.
H
- Heidegger in Ruins — Critiques Catholic enthusiasm for Heidegger and the philosophical consequences of abandoning realism.
L
- Lay Movement Launches International Campaign for ‘Total Freedom of the Traditional Liturgy’ — Reports on efforts to defend or restore broader freedom for the traditional liturgy.
- Lionel Shriver Speaks it Plain — Highlights Shriver’s critique of ideological derangements around gender, lockdowns, climate alarmism, and related topics.
M
- May the Passion of Our Lord Be For You A Remedy — A prayerful meditation on Christ’s Passion as remedy, strength, and peace.
N
- Not ‘God’. God in Christ. — Argues that vague references to “God” often obscure the concrete Name of Jesus Christ.
O
- On Indulgences — Explains indulgences, temporal punishment, purgatory, and Catholic teaching.
- Our Sunday Best — Uses James 2 and Romans 14 to warn against partiality, judgmentalism, and man-made sub-traditions.
P
- The Philosopher of Antifa — Presents Dinesh D’Souza’s account of radical ideology and modern leftist activism.
R
- Reflecting on Pope Benedict XVI: Lessons from His Life and Faith — Reflects on Benedict XVI as theologian, teacher, and witness to Christ.
- Rod Dreher on Benedict XVI and the Power of Antichrist — Considers Benedict XVI’s warning about evil and the need for strong shepherds.
S
- Strangers in the Pews — Reflects on Eucharist, worship, loneliness, and Christian fellowship.
- Suicide in Modern Ireland. Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne — Discusses suicide in Ireland and pastoral concern.
T
- The Cross Is the Tree of Life – Benedict XVI — Benedict XVI and Fulton Sheen on Palm Sunday, the Cross, and salvation.
- The dawn of the post-literate society — Describes the decline of reading and the rise of screen-shaped habits of thought.
- The Evil One has let down his nets — Reflects on temptation, entertainment, and evil mingled with the good.
- The Metaphysics of Evolution — A Catholic philosophical critique of Darwinian metaphysical assumptions.
- Three Jewish Actors Who Played Prominent Roles in the 1977 Series Jesus of Nazareth — Notes the Jewish actors who played major roles in Zeffirelli’s Jesus of Nazareth.
- Time Out — A cultural/music interlude on Sinatra’s Watertown and musical genius.
- Tradition and the Living Magisterium — On tradition, doctrinal continuity, and the Church’s living magisterium.
- Traditionis Custodes. New Oxford Review. — Critiques restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass and related Vatican claims.
V
- Victor Davis Hanson on the Fall of Tucker Carlson — Discusses ideological shifts and controversies on the American right.
W
- When Sin Costs Blood and Grace Costs Everything — Meditates on Leviticus, atonement, sacrifice, sin, and the Cross.
Y
- You quote dubious Catholics! — Defends careful use of authors by distinguishing truth from the personal reputation of the speaker.
Topic Index
1. Christ, Scripture, Prayer, and Devotion
- Fiat Lux. Into History Comes the Light
- May the Passion of Our Lord Be For You A Remedy
- When Sin Costs Blood and Grace Costs Everything
- The Cross Is the Tree of Life – Benedict XVI
- Not ‘God’. God in Christ.
- Does God send wars as a punishment for sin?
Theme: Christ is not treated as a vague religious symbol but as the center of history, grace, judgment, sacrifice, and hope.
2. Catholic Doctrine, Magisterium, Tradition, and Liturgy
- Tradition and the Living Magisterium
- Traditionis Custodes. New Oxford Review.
- Lay Movement Launches International Campaign for ‘Total Freedom of the Traditional Liturgy’
- Dismal Liturgies
- On Indulgences
- Our Sunday Best
Theme: The site defends Catholic continuity while warning against both rupture and judgmental sub-traditionalism.
3. Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Theology
- All Errors Great and Small
- Heidegger in Ruins
- Dr. Arthur Holmes Lectures. A History of Philosophy.
- Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” by N.T. Wright
- Christology and Mariology. Karl Rahner.
Theme: The site returns often to first principles: being, truth, realism, Christology, and the dangers of subtle beginnings in error.
4. Science, Scientism, Evolution, and AI
- The Best Defense Against AI is Reading Plato …
- Dr. David Berlinski on ‘The Deniable Darwin’
- C.S. Lewis and Evolution
- C.S. Lewis’ Critique of Scientific Knowledge by Thomas Storck
- The Metaphysics of Evolution
- A.I. Hedges on The Beatles and Astrology. A “Conversation” With Tin Man.
Theme: The site distinguishes science from scientism and resists technological or Darwinian reductionism.
5. Reading, Humanities, Education, and Post-Literacy
- The Best Defense Against AI is Reading Plato …
- The dawn of the post-literate society
- Dr. Arthur Holmes Lectures. A History of Philosophy.
Theme: Reading is presented as spiritual, intellectual, and civilizational resistance to flattening by screens and AI.
6. Culture, Music, Film, and the Arts
- Time Out
- A.I. Hedges on The Beatles and Astrology. A “Conversation” With Tin Man.
- Three Jewish Actors Who Played Prominent Roles in the 1977 Series Jesus of Nazareth
- Golf is Not the Only Option
Theme: Culture is approached as a field of discernment, recreation, memory, and spiritual danger or consolation.
7. Politics, Ideology, and the Modern West
- Victor Davis Hanson on the Fall of Tucker Carlson
- The Philosopher of Antifa
- Grok A.I. Interpretation of the Current Global Power Configuration
- Lionel Shriver Speaks it Plain
- Rod Dreher on Benedict XVI and the Power of Antichrist
Theme: The site critiques ideological capture, cultural derangement, secular revolution, and political confusion from a Christian worldview.
8. Saints, Witnesses, Catholic Worker, and Moral Imagination
- Dostoevsky and Dorothy Day
- Faith and the Ascendancy of Mammon. Carol Robinson.
- Reflecting on Pope Benedict XVI: Lessons from His Life and Faith
Theme: The site honors witnesses who illuminate suffering, poverty, faithfulness, and the drama of Christian conscience.
9. Spiritual Warfare, Temptation, and Discernment
- The Evil One has let down his nets
- Rod Dreher on Benedict XVI and the Power of Antichrist
- Do not permit the darkness to frighten me
Theme: The site treats evil not merely as politics or psychology but as spiritual reality requiring prayer, courage, and discernment.
10. Aging, Consolation, Friendship, and Daily Life
- Golf is Not the Only Option
- Good Fences, Shared Bounty
- Strangers in the Pews
- Tin Man: “Aging is not for the Faint Hearted”
Theme: The site also turns toward ordinary human vulnerability: aging, loneliness, friendship, hobbies, and perseverance.
Expansion Pass 1 — Added May–April 2026 material
Newly added alphabetical entries
- A Good Man’s Wisdom: Certainly by 70, Conserving Energy is the Goal… — Reflection on age, limits, and the prudence of conserving strength.
- Avoiding the Crash. Plato’s Chariot & the Passions — Uses Plato’s chariot image to discuss reason, appetite, passion, and the governance of the soul.
- Bach and the “Divine Connection Which Cannot be Betrayed.” Andras Schiff. — Reflects on Bach, András Schiff, sacred music, and the Christic dimension of great art.
- Carol Robinson’s “This Perverse Generation” — Presents Carol Robinson as a guide out of the modern American cave of illusions.
- C.S. Lewis and Evolution — Introduces Lewis as a critic of scientism and of dehumanizing modern assumptions.
- Great Art Can Be Propaganda | First Things — Considers art, authority, freedom, propaganda, and Jed Perl’s defense of the arts.
- He lived, loved and walked there. He wept over Jerusalem. He was scourged, died and Rose again there. — Reflects on Christ, Jerusalem, Romans 11, and Christian responsibility in speaking of Jews and the Passion.
- John XXIII, Benedict XVI and Francis. 2015. — Reflects on postconciliar Catholic decline, liturgy, religious orders, homilies, and ecclesial crisis.
- “New Spirituality” & the Ghost of Catholicism — Warns that spirituality severed from religion becomes a ghostly substitute for Christianity.
- Opinion — Political/moral reflection on violence against presidents or cabinet members and capital punishment.
- Our Saving Wounds — Meditation on sin, wounds, failure, and the painful road toward grace and self-knowledge.
- Revisiting John Lennon’s Anti-Credo — Revisits Lennon’s song “God” and its rejection of inherited religious and cultural commitments.
- The Beat Generation… cultural catastrophe. By Roger Kimball — Presents Kimball’s critique of the Beat movement and its cultural consequences.
- The Best Defense Against AI is Reading Plato … — Argues that the decline of humanities and reading leaves people vulnerable to AI-shaped shallowness.
- The Scholars and the Goddess — Charlotte Allen on Wicca, goddess spirituality, neopaganism, and academic fascination with it.
- The Strange Journey — A poetic meditation on life as a strange, quiet, wounded journey toward rediscovery.
- Time Out: Ain’t Drunk, Just Old. — A humorous blues meditation on aging, pain, and the comic dignity of decline.
- Tin Man was asked… — A Tin Man-style logical reflection on a bumper sticker and quasi-dogmatic contradiction.
- Trump Watching Hateful Kimmel. — Political commentary on Jimmy Kimmel, Trump, media rhetoric, and public incitement.
Topic additions
Music, Art, and Cultural Memory
- Bach and the “Divine Connection Which Cannot be Betrayed.” Andras Schiff.
- Great Art Can Be Propaganda | First Things
- Time Out: Ain’t Drunk, Just Old.
- Revisiting John Lennon’s Anti-Credo
Modern Spiritual Substitutes
Ecclesial Crisis and Catholic Continuity
- John XXIII, Benedict XVI and Francis. 2015.
- He lived, loved and walked there. He wept over Jerusalem. He was scourged, died and Rose again there.
- Our Saving Wounds
Philosophy, Passions, and the Soul
- Avoiding the Crash. Plato’s Chariot & the Passions
- The Best Defense Against AI is Reading Plato …
- Carol Robinson’s “This Perverse Generation”
Aging, Limits, and Consolation
- A Good Man’s Wisdom: Certainly by 70, Conserving Energy is the Goal…
- Time Out: Ain’t Drunk, Just Old.
- The Strange Journey
Expansion Pass 2 — March 2026
Newly added alphabetical entries
- Question of Irregular Unions Return Under Leo? — Notes renewed discussion of Amoris Laetitia, synodality, families, and irregular unions.
- Thomas Merton on Heresy and Self-Contradiction — Reflects on whether heresy remains meaningful after Vatican II, ecumenism, and modern Catholic openness.
- “They want us out of healthcare altogether” — Discusses Catholic religious liberty in health care, education, and social services.
- Good Fences, Shared Bounty — Reflects on love as willing the good of the other while preserving boundaries between peoples and cultures.
Topic additions
Marriage, Family, and Moral Theology
Heresy, Truth, and Catholic Identity
Religious Liberty and Public Life
Culture, Boundaries, and the Common Good
Expansion Pass 3 — February–January 2026
Newly added alphabetical entries
- Carl F.H. Henry on The Matter of Belief Today — Protestant theological reflection on belief, modern doubt, and the need for revealed truth.
- Gemini / Google Evaluation of Catholic Critique — Records an AI-generated assessment of Catholic Critique as a conservative/traditional Catholic commentary site.
- Of UFOs, Apostasy, and Death — A severe meditation on apostasy, despair, false signs, and the casualties of religious confusion.
- Pit Vipers — A cultural/spiritual warning piece placed near reflections on apostasy and salvation history.
- Romans 5 — Presents Romans 5 on Adam, Christ, sin, death, grace, and salvation history.
- Secretary Mark Rubio in Munich — Summarizes Rubio’s Munich remarks on Europe, defense, migration, China, Russia-Ukraine, and the transatlantic order.
- The “true reform” that the Church needed in the 20th century — Reflects on reform, Vatican II, and the question of what genuine Catholic renewal required.
- Who is God? The Universe? — Philosophical-theological reflection on God, creation, and the inadequacy of vague cosmic substitutes.
- The Mystery That Dwarfs — A meditation on divine mystery, creation, and human smallness before God.
Topic additions
Scripture, Salvation History, and Christology
Apostasy, Despair, and Spiritual Warfare
Church Reform and Vatican II
Politics, Diplomacy, and the West
AI, Technology, and Self-Description
Expansion Pass 4 — December–October 2025
Newly added alphabetical entries
- Assassination Nation — Pieter Vree/New Oxford Review reflection on American violence, political assassination, and the moral history of the United States.
- Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” by N.T. Wright — N.T. Wright on liberal theology, doubt, biblical criticism, and the modern temptation to remake Christ.
- Jacob Rees-Mogg: Catholicism and the Future of Britain — A conversation on Rees-Mogg’s Catholic faith and its relation to public life in Britain.
- Life Among the [Moral] Ruins — Solange Hertz on a morally senescent world and the spiritual condition of late modernity.
- Peter Thiel Talks With Ross Douthat — Notes Thiel’s conversation with Douthat on innovation, stagnation, AI, longevity, space, and the Antichrist.
- Pope John Paul II on Enlightenment Errors — John Paul II on ideologies of evil and their roots in European philosophical and Enlightenment thought.
- St. John Damascene, the Incarnation & the Iconoclasts — On iconoclasm, the Incarnation, Protestantism, legalism, and the defense of holy images.
- Suicide in Modern Ireland. Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne — Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne and Fr. Mark Quinn on suicide, Ireland, pastoral grief, and the loss of Catholic formation.
- The Gospel is Not All Sweetness & Light — Collects Gospel warnings and rebukes showing that Christ’s charity includes judgment, severity, and truth.
- The Real Winner of the Gaza Ceasefire? — Leon Hadar analysis of the Gaza ceasefire, Trump, Netanyahu, Hamas, and the Washington foreign-policy class.
- Trump Threatens Military Strike on Nigeria if Slaughter of Christians Doesn’t Cease — Reports on persecution of Christians in Nigeria and U.S. pressure over religious freedom.
- Was Pope Benedict XVI Holding Back the Destroying Flood? — Pieter Vree/New Oxford Review reflection on Benedict XVI, evil, Antichrist, and the need for strong shepherds.
Topic additions
Christ, Judgment, and the Hard Sayings of the Gospel
Modern Theology, Doubt, and Biblical Criticism
Enlightenment, Ideology, and Moral Ruin
Persecution, Violence, and Public Order
- Assassination Nation
- Trump Threatens Military Strike on Nigeria if Slaughter of Christians Doesn’t Cease
- The Real Winner of the Gaza Ceasefire?
Catholic Public Figures and Public Life
Incarnation, Images, and Heresy
Antichrist, Technology, and Apocalyptic Imagination
Pastoral Grief, Suicide, and Catholic Formation
Expansion Pass 5 — September–June 2025
Newly added alphabetical entries
- 2020: The Summer We Lost Our Minds — Brendan O’Neill/Thomas Chatterton Williams material on George Floyd, elite liberal hypocrisy, and the cultural convulsions of 2020.
- Aldous Huxley on an Emerging ‘Scientific’ Dictatorship… — Huxley on technocratic control, managed democracy, and soft totalitarianism.
- An Invitation to a Spiritual Smorgasbord — New Oxford Review critique of Ross Douthat’s Believe and its broad “religious” apologetic.
- The Assisted-Suicide Danger Zone — Warns against assisted-suicide regimes and their expansion in Europe and Canada.
- The Binding Force of Tradition — Fr. Ripperger on the deposit of faith and tradition as something received, guarded, and handed on.
- Children killed and 17 people injured in shooting at Minneapolis Catholic school Mass — Reports on a deadly attack at a Catholic school Mass and its cultural implications.
- Composers of a New Stairway — Reflects on Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven,” occult associations, and cultural memory.
- The Consequences of Hamas’ War — Argues that Hamas deliberately provoked war and reflects on proportionality, responsibility, and conflict.
- Eschatological Anxieties. Robotics “could lead to humanoid robots outnumbering people” — Musk. — Considers robotics, drones, hard technology, and apocalyptic unease.
- Existence and the Word — Connects existentialist insights with Christian teaching on estrangement and original sin.
- Farewell, Francis. Hello, Leo XIV — New Oxford Review reflection on the end of Pope Francis’s pontificate and the beginning of Leo XIV.
- Food and Spiritual Sanity — Links food, health, borders, language, culture, and spiritual sanity.
- Fordow: Israeli report confirms nuclear site inoperable — Reports on Israel, Iran’s Fordow site, U.S. action, and Middle East tensions.
- Huxleys Internationalist UN — James Lindsay material on the United Nations, theosophy, global governance, and ideological religion.
- JFK & the Ladies… Maureen Callahan Goes over the Edge. — Defends JFK’s memory against hostile media and book-world treatments.
- Judith Butler, Feminist. A Brush of Her (or Its) Thought. — Critiques Judith Butler’s gender theory and philosophical influence.
- Kathleen Stock on Wall to Wall Decadence and Roger Scruton — Kathleen Stock on pornography, decadence, Roger Scruton, and cultural disorder.
- “Let Me Carry Your Cross for Ireland, Lord” — Reflects on Ireland, history, suffering, and Catholic memory.
- Moral Issues Related to Covid Vaccines. Updated Opinion. — Trent Horn and Fr. Matthew Schneider on vaccines, mRNA technology, and moral questions.
- No Greater Love — Uses John 15:13 in relation to violence, sacrifice, and public grief.
- No More Traditional Priesthood, a Goal for ‘Progressives’? — Reflects on progressive Catholic aims, authority, and the traditional priesthood.
- Pornography — Calls internet pornography one of the gravest spiritual dangers of the age.
- The rise of artificial stupidity — Uses Hito Steyerl’s phrase to describe technological disruption and the destruction of reality.
- Rory Stewart’s Mental Health — Discusses Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart, political disappointment, and mental-health struggles.
- The Sacred Darkness — Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene on faith in darkness and obscurity.
- Shakespeare: Saint or Sinner? — Joseph Pearce on Shakespeare, pride, imagination, and moral judgment.
- Sinatra and Antonio Jobim Medley — A musical interlude on Sinatra, Jobim, and lyrical atmosphere.
- St. John Henry Newman. “The Parting of Friends” — Newman on separation, friendship, faith, and the cost of conversion.
- Sunrise miracle, Daily — John Michael Talbot, sacred song, and daily wonder.
- There is a Spectre Haunting Europe and the UK Again — James Lindsay on Marxism, revolution, and the political Left.
- Time Out. Sinatra: “Elizabeth” — Reflects on Sinatra’s Watertown and the song “Elizabeth.”
- Time Out. Sinatra’s Wondrous “Watertown” — A musical reflection on Sinatra’s narrative concept album Watertown.
- Tony Bennett and Diana Krall — A music post on Bennett, Krall, Gershwin, and Love Is Here to Stay.
- The Will to Hate? — Trent Horn’s response to rhetoric about hating enemies, with reflection on Christian charity and “Trad” circles.
- When You Are Old. — W.B. Yeats’s poem on aging, love, memory, and the pilgrim soul.
Topic additions
Tradition, Papacy, and Ecclesial Authority
- The Binding Force of Tradition
- Farewell, Francis. Hello, Leo XIV
- No More Traditional Priesthood, a Goal for ‘Progressives’?
Technology, AI, Robotics, and Technocracy
- Aldous Huxley on an Emerging ‘Scientific’ Dictatorship…
- The rise of artificial stupidity
- Eschatological Anxieties. Robotics “could lead to humanoid robots outnumbering people” — Musk.
- Huxleys Internationalist UN
Moral Theology, Bioethics, and the Body
- The Assisted-Suicide Danger Zone
- Moral Issues Related to Covid Vaccines. Updated Opinion.
- Pornography
- Food and Spiritual Sanity
Music, Poetry, and Consolation
- When You Are Old.
- Tony Bennett and Diana Krall
- Sinatra and Antonio Jobim Medley
- Time Out. Sinatra: “Elizabeth”
- Time Out. Sinatra’s Wondrous “Watertown”
- Sunrise miracle, Daily
Politics, Violence, War, and Public Disorder
- 2020: The Summer We Lost Our Minds
- Children killed and 17 people injured in shooting at Minneapolis Catholic school Mass
- The Consequences of Hamas’ War
- Fordow: Israeli report confirms nuclear site inoperable
- There is a Spectre Haunting Europe and the UK Again
Expansion Pass 6 — May 2025 back through January 2024
Newly added alphabetical entries
- A “Cleansing of the Altar” Is Long Overdue — Gerard T. Mundy/New Oxford Review critique of irreverence at the Catholic altar.
- An Important Book. Bishop Athanasius Schneider — Introduces Bishop Schneider’s treatment of Church controversies, papal authority, Vatican II, and Catholic clarity.
- The Blessings of Legal Immigration. Aspiring to Ownership. — Distributist reflection on immigrant family ownership and small business.
- Brother Lawrence and the Presence of God — Spiritual classic on practicing God’s presence in ordinary life.
- Catholic Critique. If there is any value in this website, please keep your money… — The site’s self-description: no money sought, only edification, information, and consolation.
- Dr. Ralph Martin on the Urgent Relevance of Gospel Teaching Today — Ralph Martin on neglected Gospel warnings and progressive suppression of hard sayings.
- Francis and Leo — A sharp contrast between Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV.
- G. K. Chesterton on Man — Chesterton on man as strange, exiled, and spiritually unlike the animals.
- Hamas, Hezbollah and Israel — Background on Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, and regional conflict.
- Leo XIV: “the hope of the Church and the world” — A hopeful reception of Pope Leo XIV after the Francis years.
- Missionary, Self-Conversion Time — Reflection on the Good Samaritan, conversion, and missionary self-examination.
- More Rees-Mogg. “The Family Precedes The State” — Jacob Rees-Mogg, family, conservatism, Britain, and the West.
- Not ‘God’. God in Christ. — Warns against vague God-talk that omits Jesus Christ.
- Peter Hitchens: The War We Never Fought — Hitchens on drugs, law, and Britain’s failed/nonexistent “war on drugs.”
- Perseverance — Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene on perseverance unto the end.
- Reading ‘Lord Of The Rings’ And ‘1984’ Could Lead To… — Douglas Murray on government suspicion of Tolkien, Orwell, Lewis, and “right-wing extremism.”
- Report: Hillary Clinton Might Run if Biden Resigns — Political commentary invoking Waco, the Clintons, and U.S. political memory.
- Sexual Abuse Coverup. Not Just Epstein: A Global Phenomenon — Argues that abuse and coverup are global, religious and secular, not merely Catholic scandals.
- Small Is Still Beautiful — Joseph Pearce on economics, family, scale, and humane society.
- The doctrine of Christ surpasses all the doctrines of the saints — The Imitation of Christ on following Christ above all human doctrines.
- Through The American Looking Glass. “We Create Our Own Reality,” He Said — Karel van Wolferen on American unreality, power, and political perception.
- Traditionis Custodes. New Oxford Review. — New Oxford Review critique of restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass.
- Trump Would Veto National Abortion Ban As President, Vance Says — Notes Trump/Vance abortion positioning and pro-life political tension.
- What we know about Pope Leo XIV’s political and social views — Washington Post profile of Pope Leo XIV’s background and social-political views.
- Why Woke is More Than Merely Insane — James Lindsay on woke Marxism as intentionally destructive rather than merely irrational.
Topic additions
Papacy, Reform, and Catholic Continuity
- Leo XIV: “the hope of the Church and the world”
- Francis and Leo
- What we know about Pope Leo XIV’s political and social views
- An Important Book. Bishop Athanasius Schneider
- Traditionis Custodes. New Oxford Review.
Prayer, Perseverance, and Devotional Life
- Brother Lawrence and the Presence of God
- Perseverance
- The doctrine of Christ surpasses all the doctrines of the saints
Politics, Ideology, and Public Disorder
- Why Woke is More Than Merely Insane
- Through The American Looking Glass. “We Create Our Own Reality,” He Said
- Peter Hitchens: The War We Never Fought
- Report: Hillary Clinton Might Run if Biden Resigns
Family, Economics, and Social Order
- Small Is Still Beautiful
- The Blessings of Legal Immigration. Aspiring to Ownership.
- More Rees-Mogg. “The Family Precedes The State”
Expansion Pass 7 — Older archive years: 2023–2020
Archive note
The visible archive list confirms the site reaches back before 2024, including older years such as 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020. A truly exhaustive index of those earliest posts should be verified page by page, because older archive pages may have moved, changed slugs, or been reorganized.
Earliest-site summary
The earliest layer of Catholic Critique appears to establish the same governing concerns later seen throughout the site:
- Catholic continuity under pressure — fidelity to Christ, Scripture, Tradition, and the Church amid confusion.
- Global and ecclesial destabilization — war, ideological revolution, technological manipulation, and moral disorder.
- Curated witness — extensive sharing of outside voices: Catholic, Orthodox-adjacent, Protestant, Jewish, literary, philosophical, and political.
- No commercial motive — the site’s purpose is explicitly edification, information, consolation, and interpretive help.
- Spiritual discernment — recurring attention to deception, false peace, sentimental religion, apostasy, and the need for prayer.
Provisional older-archive topic headings
Catholic Crisis and Discernment
Christ, Scripture, and Salvation
Culture, Literature, and the Arts
Politics, War, and the Modern West
Technology, Scientism, and Modern Substitutes for God
Older posts may be gathered here when they concern AI, scientism, Darwinism, technocracy, UFOs, transhumanism, or spiritual counterfeits.
