If Fathers Don’t Step Up, We Won’t See a Turning Point, by Veronica Burchard

By Veronica Burchard, Crisis Magazine, Sept. 18, 2025

Veronica Burchard is Chief Operating Officer at Sophia Institute. For the last decade, she has played a key role in the shaping of Sophia’s catechetical formation programs, as well as the production of Sophia’s religion textbook series, now used in over 1500 schools and parishes, and is the author of The Pocket Guide to Rerum Novarum (Sophia Institute Press, 2025).

If the average American continues to accept the lies we are told, nothing will change in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

America has long been known as an “experiment” in self-government. Writing to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay in 1790, George Washington reflected on the meaning of the new Constitution: “The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment, for promoting human happiness, by reasonable compact, in civil Society” (emphasis added).

Note he said America was not just an experiment but the last great one. If that was his conclusion after watching our ally France’s Reign of Terror in the name of “liberté, éqalité and fraternité,” how much more would he be convinced today to watch us trade American founding principles for those same Marxist values, now called “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Kirk’s assassination is a tragic emblem—not merely proof that the American experiment in self-government has failed, though it has, but that it has failed so catastrophically it resembles a human-subjects trial so harmful that ethicists are forced to shut it down. …

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If Fathers Don’t Step Up, We Won’t See a Turning Point, by Veronica Burchard

Is Faith Reasonable? Benedict XVI’s Answer at Westminster Still Resonates, by Daniel B. Gallagher

Saint of the Day for September 19: St. Januarius (c. 300)

By Veronica Burchard, Crisis Magazine, Sept. 18, 2025

If the average American continues to accept the lies we are told, nothing will change in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Kirk’s assassination is a tragic emblem—not merely proof that the American experiment in self-government has failed, though it has, but that it has failed so catastrophically it resembles a human-subjects trial so harmful that ethicists are forced to shut it down. …

If Fathers Don’t Step Up, We Won’t See a Turning Point, by Veronica Burchard

Is Faith Reasonable? Benedict XVI’s Answer at Westminster Still Resonates, by Daniel B. Gallagher

Saint of the Day for September 19: St. Januarius (c. 300)

By Veronica Burchard, Crisis Magazine, Sept. 18, 2025

If the average American continues to accept the lies we are told, nothing will change in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Kirk’s assassination is a tragic emblem—not merely proof that the American experiment in self-government has failed, though it has, but that it has failed so catastrophically it resembles a human-subjects trial so harmful that ethicists are forced to shut it down. …

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