Stephen G. Adubato

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  • Jun 17, 2026
    “The Holy Spirit is Moving in Manhattan,” read the headline in the National Catholic Register in April. At St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in New York’s...
  • Jun 5, 2026
    Whenever someone like Candace Owens or Nick Fuentes posts “ragebait,” it’s not difficult to predict how my friends will react. Public discourse, online and off,...
  • May 22, 2026
    In the introduction to theology course I teach for college freshmen, one of the assigned readings is the third-century account of the martyrdoms of Saints Felicity and Perpetua. For...
  • May 21, 2026
    Contrary to popular belief, New York City is hella trad. No cap on God. Well…perhaps it would be more accurate to say that NYC is the ideal synthesis of—or maintains an...
  • Apr 28, 2026
    The American dream, according to Slavoj Žižek, amounts to “dematerialization” of real life as it becomes a “spectral show.” In this regard, claims Žižek,...
  • Apr 13, 2026
    As we all know by now, Catholic churches around the US saw record numbers of baptisms and confirmations last weekend. This is part and parcel of the so-called zoomer religious...
  • Mar 30, 2026
    The little Leila, with her orient eyes, And taciturn Asiatic disposition (Which saw all western things with small surprise, To the surprise of people of condition, Who think...
  • Feb 17, 2026
    In the early 1970s, Italian cities were flooded with what were known as capelloni—young leftist men who sported long hair as a way to stick it to the proverbial Man. One...
  • Feb 11, 2026
    I grew up in a family where the practice of going to confession was actively discouraged. At liturgy with my Greek grandma, the priest suggested during his homily that we should all...
  • Jan 30, 2026
    In late December, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz announced their plan to block Medicaid and Medicare funding for sex-change procedures for minors. “So-called...
  • Jan 12, 2026
    I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing American flag-themed apparel, let alone flying the flag in public. I go out of my way to make sarcastic, biting jokes about America’s...