Podcast: Sarah Cain, The Crusader Gal

When a federal or state agency targets Christians for their faith, they don’t often single out large groups or institutions. Instead, they persecute an individual or a single family, isolated from their support structure and the larger Church. Read the piece: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2023/09/13/no-the-persecution-is-not-coming-it-is-already-here/

What’s actually happening in these indignation-by-proxy cases is an attempt by the individual to claim virtue by association with the ‘victim’ group. Thus we see again how victimhood has become something of a currency and is therefore sought. https://open.substack.com/pub/crusadergal/p/the-virtue-of-parasitic-victimhood

Finish politician Päivi Räsänen was charged for stating her beliefs about Pride parades and the institution of marriage. A multi-year legal battle ensued, under the criminal code for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.

Children are taught not to “fight” in the modern age, a stricture applied not only to physical conflict, but also verbal ones. Dinner tables oft forbid any discussion of politics or religion, as if we should aim to sacrifice truth to indifference, cowardice, or appeasement — in service of the masquerade of “keeping the peace”. https://open.substack.com/pub/crusadergal/p/a-lost-art-to-disagree

Whereas it was once accepted that we should wear formal clothing to Mass, this understanding has been gradually eroded, spurred by those who will (loudly) argue some variation of “Church isn’t a fashion contest.” They are correct: it’s the house of God, and thus infinitely more important than a fashion contest. Read the article: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/modesty-in-church

How many people have you seen die or get seriously harmed, while you were scrolling through a social media feed? Our desensitization to seeing profound suffering among our fellow man can cause us to fail to see people as we ought. https://crusadergal.substack.com/p/sharing-the-doom

What we’re seeing is surely indicative of a disenfranchised cultural majority that does not find themselves represented. There is a vacuum of cultural representations of the working man’s plight, which might be described as an underclass. https://crusadergal.substack.com/p/how-recent-musical-hits-demonstrate

How the FBI investigation of traditional Catholics reveals religious undertones within our government’s ethos. These government agencies don’t see their own political views as potentials among many others — but as self-evidently right, with those who deny them as gravely immoral. Read the essay instead: https://crusadergal.substack.com/p/the-us-government-is-targeting-its

Those who love to call themselves “pro-choice” have been using the legal system to try to silence and shut down crisis pregnancy centers, in a chilling clarification of what they really believe. https://crusadergal.substack.com/p/pro-abortionists-show-how-anti-choice

What you might remember as wholesome content from your childhood would nowadays be considered hate speech. Here’s a blast from the past, reminding us of what used to be so normal to say that you could sing it to children. Watch in video form: https://youtu.be/jfBdEHnix8k