When euthanasia became normalized and societally acceptable, there was always going to be a gradual dehumanization of the man. In the next phase, bioethicists are asking why we can’t kill someone via organ removal. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/first-their-lives-now-their-organs

There is a type of connection that is seldom reflected upon in the modern age, and which comes from understanding the nature of another person as he exists before God. Here’s my latest, on the eternal dimension of friendship among the faithful: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/seeing-your-friend-before-god

I realize that I have been less productive in recent times than I would like and than history attests to. I wanted to provide a brief explanation. I’ve developed a medical issue that requires intervention. I would be grateful for your prayers over the coming months. Read it instead: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/why-ive-been-writing-less

An attempted beheading in Belfast ended when an Irishman intervened with a hurley stick. For a brief moment, the scene became symbolic of something much larger: a people deciding whether their culture, their neighbors, and their civilization are still worth defending. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/the-moment-belfast-fought-back

Watching a man say yes to the call of the priesthood is always stirring. It is all the more so in a diocese plagued by uncertainty and in which personal piety and reverence are discouraged or outright sneered at. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/avoiding-the-blackpill-temptation

It’s not a given that we would care about history. In fact, it is increasingly common for people to treat our history with a sense of resentment. The monks of old spent their lives preserving such a record. Have you considered why?

We are increasing our trade relationship with China at the same time that they increase their persecution of Christians. Trade is not morally neutral. Every economic alliance carries moral consequences. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/were-trading-more-than-goods

The arsonist charged with the Palisades Fire wants to destroy the rich, but what all communists really want to do is burn civilization itself. Read it yourself: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/when-envy-becomes-revolutionary-the

In a culture that avoids death, we lose sight of how to live. Let’s rethink success, comparison, and moral clarity through mortality.

There is an expanding worldview, even amongst Catholics, which sees children not as an end unto themselves but as a mere choice among many, a status symbol, an indicator of financial stability, or simply the means of happiness for unfulfilled couples. In this understanding, children become merely useful or not, timely or not, wanted…or not. It distorts the understanding of marriage and rips at the fabric of the family. My latest for Crisis Magazine: https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/sterilizing-the-poor-with-despair