Crisis Magazine

3 days ago | crisismagazine.com | Leila Miller

Catholic parents, do your daughters know that it’s okay—even good and holy—to desire a life as wife and mother, even above (and even forgoing) all other earthly considerations? Have you told them explicitly that they are free to pursue Holy Matrimony (a woman’s natural vowed state of life) as a goal in itself, bypassing the culture’s worldly expectations for young women today? If you have, praise God! This article is not for you.

1 week ago | crisismagazine.com | Regis Martin

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a series on Catholic culture. How to account for the Good News of Jesus Christ? The short answer is the Holy Ghost, who, in the words of the poet Hopkins, “with warm breast and with ah! bright wings,” hovers about a broken world, and in whose fiery descent deigns to give birth to men and women annealed in Christ through the sacrament of Baptism.

1 week ago | crisismagazine.com | Eric Sammons

The election of Pope Leo XIV has brought attention back to the pontiff from whom he took his papal name: Pope Leo XIII, who reigned from 1878-1903. Specifically, it has highlighted what the 13th Leo is most known for: the introduction of modern “Catholic Social Teaching,” which can be found in many of his writings, but most particularly in his famous encyclical 1891 Rerum Novarum. Catholic Social Teaching holds an odd place in the panoply of Catholic teaching.

1 week ago | crisismagazine.com | Eric Sammons

A decades-long strategy of the Left that has been used to much success is name-calling. If that sounds like a juvenile way to describe what the Left does, that’s because it’s a juvenile tactic. Any criticism of Leftist policies is met with shouts of “racist” or “homophobe” or “misogynist” in an attempt to shut down debate. Why did the Left engage in this behaviour? Because it’s highly effective.

2 weeks ago | crisismagazine.com | Joseph Pearce

[Editor’s Note: This is the fortieth in a multi-part series on the unsung heroes of Christendom.]It is ironic and risible in the extreme that the motto of Harvard University is “Veritas” because that once-illustrious institution has long since abandoned any belief in objective verity. It has ceased to seek answers to Pilate’s question, Quid est veritas? and only asks it in the rhetorical sense that it is unanswerable.