As a man who has quite literally left the Catholic Church, it’s hard to imagine showcasing a worse example for the faithful. Read more
As a man who has quite literally left the Catholic Church, it’s hard to imagine showcasing a worse example for the faithful. Read more
Everything, absolutely everything, you consider important, all the goods to which you lay claim—it’s all vanity. Read more
In my own conversion, Catholicism was attractive precisely because it provided guidance; it made sense out of how to live. Read more
During my senior year of college, I took over our campus’s right-leaning paper, The Fenwick Review. Notorious for its polemics, its deft ability to put the student body at odds, my tenure as co-editor marked something of a shift. We made the thing glossy in contrast to its previous news-ink soaked state. We brought on student artists to design the cover and punctuate the articles with wannabe medieval grotesques. Poetry, short stories, and cartoons began to appear. Why? I felt... Read more
Will we read him with suspicion, or shall we honor him in love? Read more
“Hail Muse! et cetera.” – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS “Yeah them my dogs, them my boys.” – Jeffrey Lamar Williams, Not FRS It is I, Herr Doktorand Chase William Jarid Michael Padusniak, son of Frank and Robyn, likewise grandson of Frances and Chester, Frank and Stephanie, etc. And I was once a reader of Rod Dreher. More recently, I haven’t visited his page much, but today I returned to find a scathing review of a charitable review... Read more
The title is patently false; let’s get that out of the way. I’ve used it in order to riff on Richard Weaver’s famous Ideas Have Consequences, a book I read back in my days with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. It’s not a text I think about very often, but it’s one that—if Sam Rocha’s review of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option is to be believed—has become highly influential at the popular level. And I’ve seen this elsewhere. We find a... Read more
When you tell a lie, you keep it as simple as possible (not, of course, that I’d ever lie). The reason is simple: the more you say, the more you could be challenged on; small inconsistencies begin to develop, and, before you know it, what had once seemed a cohesive story has fallen to pieces. This is not unlike how we traffic in online arguments. Person One presents his or her position only to have Person Two add details that... Read more
The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His... Read more
From Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy to the myriad works on self-help today, consolation is taken to be, well, a good thing. When you don’t get sick, when a parent dies, when you get broken up with, you want someone to listen, or, as we often put it, merely to be there. Who could possibly say such consolation is a bad thing? Who could not want a shoulder to cry on, a human presence to, even if not understanding, truly care?... Read more
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