Author Archives: Rod Dreher
About Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod’s commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives in St. Francisville, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Crunchy Cons, How Dante Can Save Your Life, and The Benedict Option.
The PA Catholic Sex Abuse Horror
AG: ‘They protected their institution at all costs’
‘Francis Is A Dictator Pope — Thank God’
One of the pope’s biggest cheerleaders says Francis rules by personal whim, and praises him for it
Why It’s Personal
There’s one big reason why I keep following the Church sex abuse story
The Cancer Of The Cover-Up Mentality
The Keepers and the chronic curse of keeping your mouth shut to protect the Church
‘We Need A New St. Francis’
Field notes from the edge of Church catastrophe
UK Universities Attack The ‘Olds’
Senior white male professors assigned diversity re-educator to humiliate them into enlightenment
Omarosa Loop-De-Loops White House
Reality star goes rogue in the Situation Room
View From Your Table
Matane, Gaspé Peninsula, Québec, Canada
The Uncle Ted Optics Are All Wrong
LGBT Catholic conference in UK’s icky poster
The Church’s Coming Catastrophe
Catholic journalist: ‘A crisis exceeding in magnitude any other in recent memory’
Jordan Peterson: Canary In Progressivism’s Coal Mine
Why does the left hate him so much? Because he shows how bankrupt identity politics is
Gay Sex, Booze Scandal Shakes Boston Seminary
Cardinal O’Malley pink-slips seminary rector after online tell-alls
Frank Keating On The Catholic Bishops Today
‘Judas Iscariot is walking the earth, and is among the council of bishops’
The Death Of Richard Sipe
A peerless chronicler of clerical sex and ‘culture of deceit’
The Cost Of Real Church Leadership
What do bishops and senior pastors do when nobody believes them anymore? At Willow Creek, they resign. And with the US Catholic bishops?
Summer 2018 In Norcia
The Tipi Loschi help the monks of Norcia bring new life from the rubble
Opening The Closets Of The Privileged
Secretive gay bishops and the resonance of A Very English Scandal
Jim Foley, Man Of God
One old-fashioned Catholic dad’s strategy for fighting clerical sex abuse
‘Mission Accomplished’
George Weigel reminisces about World Youth Day ’93
Matushka Fruitbomb
Progressive Christian icon Nadia Bolz-Weber is leaving her parish in the hands of a gay priest who’s in love with a drag queen
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