Why I became Catholic

The local Una Voce chapter did a short email interview of their most recent convert to Catholicism and the Latin Mass (me). Here’s the Q&A:

  1. How long have you assisted at the traditional Latin Mass in Brooklyn? How did you find out about it?

    A bit more than a year, since the Lent before this

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Why such a crisis?

If the West is Catholic Christendom, and Catholic Christianity is the truth to which all roads lead, how come the West has evidently abandoned Catholicism and Christianity?

In a way, that’s like asking “why the Fall”? Men are inconstant. They aren’t satisfied with real goods that make demands and are always the same. They want … More ...

Feelings, functions, and the sexes

The basic contention of this article on male and female brains is that women pay attention to personal relationships and feelings, men to impersonal systems and functions—not much of a surprise. The author doesn’t do much with the claim except observe that women are sensitive, caring and empathetic, while men are clueless and incipiently autistic. … More ...

Christianity and secular radicalism

There are right-wing as well as left-wing opponents of Christianity. Right-wing opponents—exemplified by the European New Right—blame Christianity for the universalism and radical egalitarianism they believe are destroying the West.

Even if it is those things that are to blame for the current state of the West, the complaint is misplaced. Europeans have been looking … More ...

Civil nihilists and rude trads?

The relation between civilization and cultural revisionism is paradoxical. On the one hand, revisionism visibly contributes to a decline in civilizational standards — rising crime, declining standards of culture, and increasing crudity and violence in daily life. On the other hand, the most educated, cultured and prosperous places are the most revisionist. The moderately pro-family … More ...

Truth and consequences

The relation between civilization and cultural revisionism is paradoxical. On the one hand, revisionism visibly contributes to a decline in civilizational standards—rising crime, declining standards of culture, and increasing crudity and violence in daily life. On the other hand, the most educated, cultured and prosperous places are the most revisionist. The moderately pro-family and pro-faith … More ...