Sarah Cain, The Crusader Gal

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...

A state is never neutral. It encourages certain choices by what it makes easier. Now that laws are making death easier than care, an implicit statement is being made about human worth. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/a-state-against-its-own-people

When we make idols of a criminal class, we make victims of the upright. California plans to use taxpayer funds to pay for immigration defense attorneys for those facing deportation. It represents a perverse redistribution of resources away from the innocent. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/the-injustice-of-taxpayer-funded

The Triduum is upon us. These are the three days in which we walk with Christ through his darkest moments—those times that were so monstrous because of us. It’s also a time in which we see so clearly that He knows what it is to suffer in every way, not only in the more direct manner as upon the Cross, but in the preparation for that end: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/have-a-blessed-triduum

Performance culture doesn’t just encourage people to lie. It teaches them to disappear into a mere echo of the crowd: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/losing-oneself-to-performance

When a premature baby fights for life, the natural response should be compassion. Increasingly, it is something else. What does it mean when even the sight of a child feels like an accusation https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/why-a-premature-baby-feels-like-an

We don’t have to pretend that we dislike modern conveniences, but we must acknowledge that we have souls, and live accordingly. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/turn-off-the-noise-light-a-candle

Even in wartime, people still had to choose whether to marry, baptize, build, and hope. We are no different. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/when-the-world-tilts-living-in-uncertain

What if the ashes remind us not only that we are dust, but that we are meant to refract divine light? Perhaps you already have loved ones who are doing so. Read it at: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/the-light-we-leave-behind

Perhaps we should ask what kind of culture is forming young men who feel untethered from reality.

You’re listening to a podcast dedicated to narrations of my written work, and that will continue. I’ve also started a separate daily podcast with my co-host, Jakob Kraft, where we comment on the news. To check out that show, visit RiseRight.org.

Hillary Clinton has written an op-ed for The Atlantic that is permeated with moral indignation. She decries “MAGA’s War on Empathy” and then engages in a one-woman war on Truth.

A snowstorm has a way of reminding us how small we are. For all our technology, we wait and hope just as our forebears did.

Lauren Southern’s memoir shows how the populist right devolved, destroying its main actors and leaving audiences lost. We can’t build a civilization on outrage. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/outrage-is-not-a-moral-vision-lauren

We exhaust ourselves trying to plan futures we were never given grace to survive. There’s no God in chess, but there is in real life. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/theres-no-god-in-chess

A diocese’s seminarians reflect its spiritual ecology. So why dismantle what was working? The Diocese of Charlotte is delaying ordinations and stripping seminarians of their cassocks, while forcing them into a year of lay work mid-formation. Read the article: https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/when-a-diocese-undermines-its-own-vocations