Crisis Magazine

For a few years in the 1980s, when I was a graduate student at UCLA and had no stipend, I lived in a tenement near the La Brea Tar Pits and paid $105 a month for a studio apartment. It had no kitchen, only a hot plate and mini fridge on a counter beside a small sink. The bathroom had a scratched-up tub and a shower with a rusty head, which I would run on hot for two minutes t...

A retired priest from Southern California recently published a column on Substack about a very private and personal issue his mother had with the use of contraception. It still appears to me that Arthur Holquin used his mother’s tragic situation as a device to promote his heterodox views on contraception. When called out on it, Holquin turned on me and suggested I was “attack...

For over six years, I have written about the Covid debacle. In the spring of 2020, when questioning lockdowns, masking policies, Anthony Fauci, or the recommendations and policies of the World Health Organization, I was met with accusations of being “anti-science” and supporting conspiracy theories. As the editor and main author of COVID-19: A Dystopian Delusion, which was pu...

I have always believed in the importance and necessity of using Latin in prayer—both private and liturgical. However, upon just recently returning from a pilgrimage to Italy, it has become more than a talking point or debated principle. I know basic prayers in Latin, but even so, I personally experienced how a lack of Latin can be a genuine stumbling block. Allow me to first ...

When people saw the videos of a horde of North African migrants storming the Spanish-held peninsula of Ceuta, many immediately recalled a famous scene from the film World War Z where a horde of zombies mount a border wall and flood one of the last remaining uninfected cities. Here was a real-life violent invasion of heedless military-aged men stampeding through a small, vulne...