Crisis Magazine

While the Weimar Republic has become the popular analog for diagnosing Gen Z America, the symptoms actually point to something less historical, but also concerning. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/for-gen-z-its-not-weimar-its-tiktok

Knights of old are still occasionally imitated by children during All Hallows’ Eve, but there is a call for modern day men to revive the vocation to chivalrous defense of Church, family and country. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/needed-catholic-cavaliers

No words, however beautiful, can do justice to the sheer wonder of Our Lady’s being taken up into heaven to join her heavenly Son in His Kingdom. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/heaven-bears-the-prize-away

Here’s the completion of the last podcast (which was interrupted by a tornado) in which we give practical advice to both young and old on how to survive—and thrive—in an era of rising prices. https://crisismagazine.com/podcast/a-golden-or-gilded-age-part-ii

The near deification of “the poor” in the writings of both Francis and Leo is often contrary to reality, relying instead on the heavy use of meaningless platitudes. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-unfallen

The part of the Church that prides itself on “love” and “tolerance” and “walking with” and “meeting you where you are” means it in only a highly limited sense. It certainly does not apply to conservatives. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/pastoral-mush-mouth

Considering Spain’s late response and the EU’s vain squabbling, there is every reason to worry that the migrant invasion of Ceuta will happen again. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/what-if-the-migrant-invasion-of-ceuta-is-only-the-beginning

In spite of claims that we’re entering a “Golden Age,” many young people are struggling under the weight of rising prices. What can Catholics—both young and old—do to help? https://crisismagazine.com/podcast/a-golden-or-gilded-age

In the six years since Covid broke out, there has not been any autopsy of the bishops’—and Pope Francis’—decisions during that time. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/when-will-the-covid-era-bishops-be-held-accountable

The story of Blessed Stanley Rother is percolating out of Oklahoma to the rest of the country. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/american-martyr-blessed-stanley-rother

Catholics who choose to take advantage of legal loopholes ought to weigh the eternal consequences of getting it wrong. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-sspx-and-the-importance-of-technicalities

The Vatican has departed with twenty centuries of Church and biblical teaching to align the magisterium with “critical criminology,” which denies individual moral agency. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/mercy-to-the-cruel-is-cruelty-to-the-innocent

Paul Scofield had been given the best, the most inspired lines an actor could possibly ask for in playing the character of England’s Lord Chancellor and a future saint of the Catholic Church. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/stories-from-the-silver-screen-a-man-for-all-seasons

Artificial intelligence only covers a thin slice of what we call intelligence, which is why “artificial general intelligence,” in spite of the hype, isn’t happening any time soon, if ever. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/no-artificial-general-intelligence-is-not-coming

He may have famously Catholic tastes in music, but applying the same eclectic approach toward actual Church doctrine suggests Andy Burnham isn’t very Christian at all. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/britains-new-prime-minister-only-thinks-hes-a-catholic-really-hes-anything-but

What I find most fascinating about the Doctors of the Church are the Saints who have not made the cut, at least not yet. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/more-new-doctors-of-the-church

Precisely because human life is so cherished by God, because we are created in His image and likeness, capital punishment can be a well-deserved destiny. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-death-and-life-of-capital-punishment

Odysseus’s desperate and unrelenting battle to return to his homeland mirrors mankind’s universal struggle to return, amidst distraction and misfortune, to our everlasting home. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/he-just-wanted-to-go-home-on-reading-homers-the-odyssey

The ramifications of a Council convened without “the one necessary thing” left the Church defenseless against the onslaught of Modernism, sprung from within. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-great-deception-how-the-west-was-lost-and-how-to-win-it-back

It is a reassuring thought that Pope Leo XIV lives in a city that Catholics call home, which is protected by a wall built by a great pope and saint named Leo. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/saint-leo-the-wall-builder