Columnist: William Kilpatrick

As a short commentary on our capacity for self-delusion, it’s hard to improve on Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of the emperor, the tailors, the little child, and the invisible suit ...

“Just like us.” The phrase or some variant of it has long been used by priests and prelates to convince Catholics to seek solidarity with Muslims. Ever since the publication ...

What’s the most dangerous of contemporary delusions? Answer: the belief that Islam poses little threat to non-Muslims. With the help of hard experience and the teachings of Thomas Aquinas and ...

With a few exceptions, our bishops seem to have a shallow understanding of Islam. Do Muslims love Jesus? In some Christian circles, that question is a hot topic—especially now that ...

In my last piece I discussed the Church’s latest act of appeasement toward Islam—namely, the U.S. bishops’ guide to Islamophobia. The guide is, to say the least, poorly timed. At ...

Although the mainstream media rarely reports on Muslim attacks on Christians, it jumps at the chance to cover stories about attacks on Muslims. For example, when a deranged white supremacist ...

In the late 1930s Catholic historian Hillaire Belloc wrote: “It [Islam] is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had and may at any ...

In a recent Crisis piece, Dom Pius Mary Noonan, O.S. B. takes issue with Catholics who say that Francis is not truly the pope. It’s a critical issue because Francis ...

I hope the title of this article doesn’t sound like a conspiracy theory — but if it does, keep in mind that not every conspiracy is a theory. Many of ...

The devastating impact of the premise that people are essentially good. In a recent Front Page column, Dennis Prager criticizes the idea that people are basically good.  The belief that ...

A few weeks ago, Bishop Joseph Strickland sent an open letter to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops as the group met in Baltimore for its fall plenary assembly ...

For Part 1 of this essay, click here. Philip Rieff’s 1966 book The Triumph of the Therapeutic examined how the therapeutic mentality had swept through secular culture. What was less ...

The excommunication of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò for “his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff” presents us with an opportunity to revisit Viganò’s claim that the pope ...

Pope Francis has frequently claimed that Islam and Catholicism share much in common and he has often drawn a moral equivalence between the two faiths. For example, after the murder ...

Are the Similarities Mere Coincidence or Something More? Many commentators have noted that there are a remarkable number of similarities between President Joe Biden and Pope Francis. A partial list ...

If the Church is doing the Devil’s will, why does he attack it? In case you didn’t know, the Internet is full of videos bashing the Catholic Church. Most of ...

The publication of the Vatican declaration on same-sex blessings has generated a great deal of resistance within the Catholic Church. Numerous bishops in various parts of the world have refused ...

I’ve written frequently about the great harm that Pope Francis has done to the Catholic Church as the result of his subtle and not-so-subtle attacks on Catholic teaching, Catholic tradition, ...

It’s often said that Satan’s greatest achievement is to convince people that he doesn’t exist. If we believe he doesn’t exist, then there is less motivation for us to avoid ...

Pope Francis likes to … er, pontificate on a number of subjects that are outside of his area of expertise. For example, he seems to think that climate change is ...

The arguments in his defense don’t stand the test of time In the wake of Bishop Joseph Strickland’s removal by Francis, the question of Francis’ own status has resurfaced. Is ...