David Breitenbeck is a professional writer, Catholic traditionalist, and fiction enthusiast. He is the author of several books, including The Ten Commandments of Murder and The Wisdom of Walt Disney.
It's hard to look at the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral and not think of the parallel destruction and neglect happening to the Church and Western culture in general.
Many saw the pope's recent rapprochement with the Grand Imam as a breakthrough in inter-religious dialogue and combatting modernism. Unfortunately, it's more a signal that religious differences don't matter and that truth is something to avoid.
Traditionalism challenges the notions of Enlightenment Liberalism and offers a more human alternative. It is a political philosophy grounded in the truth of objective morality, logic, and history.
Many reviewers think that pushing a progressive narrative in popular movies won't affect their appeal, but this is illogical. People don't go to see movies like Aquaman to be preached at, but to escape this kind of thing.
Bishop Barron made waves among orthodox Catholics with his suggestion that people can be saved outside the Church as long as they basically do the right thing. Is it really that simple? Unfortunately, not quite.
Long ago, Charles Dickens wrote about telescopic charity, the idea of caring for others far away to the detriment of those nearby. This continues to be a problem in today's globalized world.
