Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston This Christmas has a distinctive “Last Supper” vibe to it. Almost everyone I know believes we are at the very edge of starkly world-changing events in every aspect of society and culture. It is both striking and unsettling. I also believe it is right. We are like animals in the forest before […]
Read More The Christmas of Our DiscontentBy Charlie Johnston Boy, do I miss the days when the question, “Is the Pope Catholic?” was just rhetorical. These last few months of Francis’ Papacy have reminded me of the closing sequence of The Godfather. In those scenes Michael Corleone piously stands as godfather at his nephew’s baptism, while his henchmen kill off all […]
Read More How Low Can We Go?By Charlie Johnston Thomasville, Georgia – I have decided to hold off on writing the second and third installments of the three crises until after the first of the year. This penitential season is in joyful preparation for the coming of Our Redeemer. There will be time enough for recriminations later. In the meantime, a […]
Read More Journey Back to BethlehemBy Charlie Johnston Helena, Alabama – This is the first of three articles that will take a look at three crises – the one in America, the one in the world, and the one in the Church. There are many crises rocking America. Like the sudden cascade of organ failure at the end of a […]
Read More Three Crises: 1) AmericaBy Charlie Johnston Tyler, Texas – It is nearly three years since I and a group of CORAC members attended the J6 protests in Washington, D.C. I wrote my angry piece about the coverage of it a few days later -and people are still warning me that I am under surveillance and that I had […]
Read More Cast Into the DeepBy Charlie Johnston Dallas, Texas – I am ashamed. I had a lovely, private group dinner meeting in Dallas on Thursday evening. The presentation went very well, very focused on key practical things people need to keep as priorities as we navigate the flood of disorder rising against us. Then, in the Question and Comment […]
Read More The Mission of the ChristBy Charlie Johnston Mico, Texas – Early in his pontificate, Pope Francis said he wanted to, “make a mess,” and urged young people to do the same. With the normalization of transgenderism in the Church and the approval for blessing same sex unions, combined with the dismissal of two orthodox Bishops for vague or no […]
Read More The Strickland SagaBy Charlie Johnston Shawnee, Kansas – Time for a couple of reality checks… First, the victory for pro-abortionists in conservative Ohio – by 13 points no less – means that pro-abortion politics is, indeed, driving turnout for the left. But it is not driving turnout from the right. The question is, “Why?” Let’s start with […]
Read More American Politics Isn’t Broke – It’s FixedBy Charlie Johnston Hays, Kansas – Our own Sheryl Collmer has a new piece up in Crisis Magazine on what I call the Synod to Nowhere. She and I are clearly on the same page on the subject, though her humor about it is a little kinder and gentler than my own. The “Synodal Church” […]
Read More When Disorder Metastasized Into EvilBy Charlie Johnston When I was a younger man (that is to say middle-aged and before), when public leaders erred and made things worse they would often make excuses or try to explain why it was not their fault. Tiresome, but a common human trait. It is only with the last three holders of the […]
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A Sign of Hope 