The typical Catholic parish today asks almost nothing from its parishioners, and provides very little in return. Read Fr’s latest essay at Crisis Magazine.

Fr. McTeigue appeared on Relevant Radio with Drew Mariani for the show, Civility and More Olympic Blasphemy. Father McTeigue’s appearance begins at 25:04. Listen in:
Darrick Taylor writes about Christendom Lost and Found in his essay at Crisis Magazine, describing it as, “One of the best books I have encountered for thinking through these issues”.

Many congregants arrive late, are dressed inappropriately, do not sing the hymns, become lifeless during the homily, receive Holy Communion indifferently, and then scramble to the exits at the first opportunity.
Read the essay at Crisis Magazine.

Associate Editor Matt Lamb recently joined “The Catholic Current” with Fr. Robert McTeigue, a Jesuit Catholic priest, to discuss higher education, particularly Catholic universities…
Keep reading at The College Fix.
“Still upon the ramparts, Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J., picks up the sword of his fallen Jesuit brother and lands a deft blow with his Christendom Lost and Found: Meditations for a Post Post-Christian Era as he battles the demons masquerading and wandering through the world seeking the ruin of souls.”
Read this review of Christendom Lost and Found by Kevin P. Shields, Managing Director of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.

Michael Warren Davis responded to Fr. McTeigue’s New Oxford Review essay, The False Hope of a “More Apostolic Church”. Read the response on his Substack.
The most poignant of the unwittingly revealing prefaces of a story that ends badly begins with, “All I wanted was . . . ” This morning, as I was oscillating between the dozing and waking states, there popped into my stream of consciousness the recognition that maybe —just maybe —on a day in which I had nothing else scheduled, I could get some writing done, without interruptions. Fortunately, I’ve a place I can get away to occasionally, as near to a scriptorium as I can hope to find within easy reach. (That fact alone qualifies me for cosmic wrath. Who am I to upset the balance of nature by striving for an unqualified good?)
Read this essay in Touchstone Magazine.

“This book was written as kind of a ‘war journal’ and a spiritual diary,” says the author of Christendom Lost and Found: Meditations for a Post-Post Christian Era, “As a result of writing this book, I have more confidence in God and less confidence in man.”
Read this essay at Catholic World Report.
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