John Updike once wondered whether people no longer attended church because they’d lost the ability to listen or the ability to sing. Andrew Sullivan attends mass and discovers that what makes Catholic ritual cohere are the physical and communal. In Substack, Sullivan celebrates Catholicism’s teaching of humility – while warning about the civilizational threat posed by the Manichean, uncompromising zeal of pseudo-religions like Wokeness.
A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”
