People are noticing a significant uptick in the number of conversions to Catholicism, yet at the same time others are lamenting the vast numbers leaving the Church. What is actually happening?| Crisis Magazine
What conclusion are we as Catholics supposed to draw when the head of our Church meets with religious who publicly deny Church tenets and the Vatican Press Office says nothing thereafter?| Crisis Magazine
Pope Leo XIII wrote a little-known encyclical that foretold the societal destruction that would come in the wake of normalizing divorce.| Crisis Magazine
While Satan and his legions are known for their subtlety, of late it would seem they have become rather bold.| Crisis Magazine
Relativism, though much in vogue in the so-called sophisticated circles of Western society, falls apart under even the slightest scrutiny.| Crisis Magazine
Fr. Michael Champagne grew up sweating it out alongside French-speaking tough Cajuns who memorialized their Acadian forebears through the grind of raw Catholic lives.| Crisis Magazine
What has been seen by many as the coming secular triumph over God, is now concluding that in fact, God must exist.| Crisis Magazine
There is no doubt in my mind that Westman had to have been mentally ill to do the horrible things he did at Annunciation Church. But I can’t imagine there wasn’t demonic influence involved at some level.| Crisis Magazine
As excitement and fear swirl around a future with increasingly human-like AI, our most vital response is to embrace our own humanity more deeply.| Crisis Magazine
The “worker’s rights” vision of economist and lawmakers fails to account for something more fundamental: the essential work of raising one’s own children.| Crisis Magazine
Philip Primeau’s work has appeared in Catholic World Report, Aleteia, Catholic Exchange, and Homiletic & Pastoral Review, among other places. His devotional poetry is found at gladsomelight.substack.| Crisis Magazine
Gideon Lazar received a BA in Classics and Medieval/Byzantine Studies from the Catholic University of America. Having grown up in a Jewish family, he was baptized in 2018 and received into the…| Crisis Magazine
Virtue is a habit that begins with being faithful in small things.| Crisis Magazine
Saint Paul said that no man would be excused from the knowledge of the true God, in that visible creation so clearly pointed to the invisible Creator.| Crisis Magazine
No one need invoke the magisterium or the Bible to observe that the primary purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children. This has been a governing societal norm for ages, and its abandonment augurs ill.| Crisis Magazine
The temptation to see one's self and our in-group as holier-than-thou is nothing new in the history of the Church.| Crisis Magazine
Most of us underestimate the impact constant interaction with nasty accounts on social media can have on us—mentally, physically, emotionally, and especially spiritually.| Crisis Magazine
The recent elevation of St. John Henry Newman to Doctor of the Church may become a prophetic challenge to the AI-driven educational revolution just over the horizon.| Crisis Magazine
Poetry, often called the thinking man's meme, has faded from popular culture. Still, Catholics could greatly benefit from exploring the works of poets who lived heroic, faith-filled lives.| Crisis Magazine
Ultimately, the Catholic Church rejects the idea that salvation is attained by “faith alone” or “works alone.”| Crisis Magazine
The intense focus on the dailly minutia of the Holy Father can veer into unhealthy voyeurism.| Crisis Magazine
Unlike the conversion of the gentile and pagan nations, the conversion of the Jews to the Catholic Faith will come about through their Jewishness, as a fulfillment.| Crisis Magazine
No one would call a Christian a “faithful Jew.” Why, then, do some—men who should know better—call Jesus, the author of Christianity, a “faithful Jew?”| Crisis Magazine
In the “Separation of Church and State,” has the state taken over the role of the Church in the wider culture?| Crisis Magazine
John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is a former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. All views expressed herein are his own.| Crisis Magazine
No diagnoses of the woes of modern society would be complete without looking at modern-day parenting.| Crisis Magazine
For 2,000 years, the persecution of Christians has taken place wherever the Church has been present — essentially, in every corner of the world. More than 260 million Christians around the globe are…| Crisis Magazine
They prayed without ceasing. For years their supplications were brought before the altar of God in far-flung cities like Karachi and Bangkok. In the darkness of the night their pious petitions were…| Crisis Magazine
Casey Chalk is the author of The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity (Emmaus Road Publishing), and The Persecuted: True Stories of…| Crisis Magazine
The story of a heroic father patiently enduring hardships to protect his family.| Crisis Magazine
Mark Haas is a Catholic composer and speaker. He serves as the Director of Music at Ave Maria Parish in Ave Maria, FL. Mark lives in Ave Maria with his wife and their seven original compositions.| Crisis Magazine
However well-meaning, turning Holy Mass into a church play to keep kids engaged robs from them the real lessons of the Holy Sacrifice.| Crisis Magazine
Let us focus on some of the great composers from the history of Christendom who are not as well-known or widely lauded.| Crisis Magazine
Erasing national borders is a godless vision of unifying mankind without reference to God.| Crisis Magazine
Crisis remains America’s most trusted source for authentic Catholic perspectives on Church and State, arts and culture, science and faith. We have one purpose, and one only: to proclaim Christ’s Kingship over all things, at all times, to all nations.| Crisis Magazine
By Eric Sammons - An “order of love” does not negate the Christian call to universal love; rather, it prioritizes responsibilities in a way that reflects the natural and divine order of relationships.| Crisis Magazine
By Bishop Athanasius Schneider - Fiducia Supplicans deeply and detrimentally affects the Catholic Church as a whole, as well as local Catholic communities.| Crisis Magazine
To fulfill the promise of the National Eucharistic Congress, dioceses and parishes need to bring back the Forty Hours Devotion.| Crisis Magazine
Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of over thirty books…| Crisis Magazine
By Joseph Pearce - Francis Thompson was eulogized memorably by G.K. Chesterton, who described him as “the greatest poetic energy since Robert Browning.”| Crisis Magazine
From Paris to Wall Street to Milwaukee, the world is full of absurdities that defy common sense and reason.| Crisis Magazine
The Neo-paganism evident in the expensive show put on for the opening of the Olympics was just another example in a long history of official French ultra-secularist de-Christianization.| Crisis Magazine
By Anthony Esolen - The nations of the West have turned against children. They are committing suicide.| Crisis Magazine
The works of P.G. Wodehouse contain a seemingly unlimited supply of fun quotes to help break the doom and gloom of today’s news.| Crisis Magazine
The teaching of Pope Francis on the nature of faith emphasizes one aspect to the detriment of another.| Crisis Magazine
By Joseph Pearce - Pelagius of Asturias was a warrior of Christendom who is revered by the Catholics of Spain but is largely unknown to the wider world.| Crisis Magazine
By Joseph Pearce - For Chesterton, belief in the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament was the very touchstone of truth.| Crisis Magazine