Sarah Cain, The Crusader Gal

When voters were given referenda, they voted to expand abortion availability in nearly every state where it was at-issue. There is something broken about a society that finds data centers to be a more unifying topic than the lives of the unborn. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/the-electorate-has-spoken-now-what

Praying to God while looking into the eyes of someone else is obviously not going to be the most conducive form of prayer. Yet the effect of the orientation of the Mass on priests (not on the congregation) is a neglected subject. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/your-priest-is-not-your-performer

Disenfranchisement at the political sphere is understandable, but refusing to engage does not cause things to remain as they are. Rather, it surrenders the ground to the political enemies that have spent the last decade mutilating children. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/your-political-enemies-are-voting

France never seems too far from a rambunctious protest-turned-riot, so even when engulfed streets reach our press, few raise more than an eyebrow. But there is something fascinating about the Marxist-Islamic alliance that is behind the flames. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/france-smolders-the-deadly-alliance

It might have seemed self-evident to some of us that a man should be considered more important than a tiger, but that opinion is becoming increasingly antiquated. We ought to consider the sheer scope of what we lose with this new hierarchy. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/what-if-we-choose-the-tiger

We have become increasingly reluctant to call evil what it is, preferring to explain even horrific acts through trauma and pathology. When suffering becomes an excuse for evil, we dehumanize the very people we claim to defend. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/is-anyone-evil-anymore

For too long, conservatives have accepted the libertarian mantra that they shouldn’t use governmental force to achieve their ends. That’s how we got drag queen story hour and mutilated kids. The recent rollback of these policies shows us that power is what works. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/wielding-power-to-protect-the-vulnerable

It’s one thing to identify mental illness as a causative factor in a horrific crime, but it’s another thing entirely to join a fan club and stand outside the courthouse with a picket sign. We’re witnessing something far darker than mental health advocacy. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/everyone-has-dark-thoughts-most-dont

In the haste to use AI for everything, we risk replacing something as fundamental as a human voice on the end of the phone in a crisis. Let’s slow down and think this through. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/could-ai-answer-your-next-911-call

The ire toward Dr. Anthony Fauci is deserved, but he was merely the figurehead of a much larger apparatus that too many Americans trust blindly. The COVID era revealed a pseudo-religion at work in modern America. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/dr-fauci-and-medicines-branding-crisis

California is suing Heartbeat International to prevent the pro-life group from providing Abortion Pill Reversal—or from even providing information about using progesterone to reverse a medication abortion in progress. They’re starting to admit it: It’s not about “choice” and it never was. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/abortion-movement-abandons-pro-choice-pretense

The most troubling question is not whether Andrew Tate and his brother will be convicted, but how they amassed an audience of millions of young men by equating degeneracy with masculinity. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/andrew-tate-vice-masqueraded-as-masculinity

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