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.
Cardinal Tagle On Sex Abuse
One of Rome summit’s speakers has said abuse cases can be dealt with through ‘canonical process’ alone
Facebook Erases Christian Martyrs
Team Zuckerberg bans woman for posting image of Christian martyrs held by ISIS
The Sham Rome Meeting
The program for the global Rome bishops’ meeting on sex abuse gives the game away
No Thanks, Lefty, We’re Good
When non-elite minorities don’t want progressives taking their side
Dear Father, Stop Whining
Blogger: ‘Most Catholics don’t care about the sex you’re not having. Chastity is our common calling’
Cool Church Or Faithful Church?
Methodists face schism over the LGBT issue
‘Francis Among The Queens’
Bombshell new book about Vatican gay mafia claims that Francis knew about McCarrick’s molestation of seminarians, but blew it off
‘We Are The Resistance’
A group of cheerful young Spanish Catholic men who are culture-warrior devotees of John Senior
Facebook Bans Jussie Wrongthink
For most of today, Facebook would not let readers share my TAC post on the actor’s fake hate crime, based on its ‘community standards’ banning hate speech
Mr. McCarrick & ‘Laicization’
A short primer on what it means
NYT Holds The Gay Catholic Party Line
The intrinsically disordered Pravda of the pro-LGBT movement makes yet another attempt to change the subject
Jussie Smollett’s Hate Hoax
CNN: Chicago police now believe that the actor made up the racist, homophobic MAGA attack
Mr. McCarrick, That Dirty Old Man
Francis give a capo in the lavender mafia gets the clerical death penalty. Next job: exposing the network that protected him
Why Join A Fraternity?
Nine DKEs at LSU arrested and charged with hazing. Why would anybody want to join these thugs?
Trump’s Fake Emergency
Trump’s declaration of a “national emergency” to fund the wall is preposterous …
GOP Donors Vs. GOP Voters
J.D. Vance on the disconnect within the Republican Party
Socialism & 2020
It’s going to be a central issue in the presidential race — and it should be
Sohrab Ahmari’s Conversion
From a childhood in Tehran to the gates of Rome, a remarkable American pilgrimage
View From Your Table
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Is ‘Cultural Socialism’ A Thing?
The phenomenon is real — but is ‘socialism’ the best way to describe it?
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