Sarah Cain, The Crusader Gal
by Sarah Cain
Sarah is a political commentator who seeks to correct the course of modern culture. She is a contributor to Catholic World Report, Crisis Magazine, and Catholic Answers, along with producing regular videos about the decline of the West. Catch up on the latest at https://CrusaderGal.com
Episodes
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Your Political Enemies Are Voting
Disenfranchisement at the political sphere is understandable, but refusing to engage does not cause things to remain as they are. Rather, it surrenders the ground to the political enemies that have spent the last decade mutilating children....
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France Smolders: The Deadly Alliance Behind the Flames
France never seems too far from a rambunctious protest-turned-riot, so even when engulfed streets reach our press, few raise more than an eyebrow. But there is something fascinating about the Marxist-Islamic alliance that is behind the flames....
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What If We Choose the Tiger?
It might have seemed self-evident to some of us that a man should be considered more important than a tiger, but that opinion is becoming increasingly antiquated. We ought to consider the sheer scope of what we lose with this new hierarchy....
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Is Anyone Evil Anymore?
We have become increasingly reluctant to call evil what it is, preferring to explain even horrific acts through trauma and pathology. When suffering becomes an excuse for evil, we dehumanize the very people we claim to defend. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/is-anyone-evil-anymore
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Wielding Power to Protect the Vulnerable
For too long, conservatives have accepted the libertarian mantra that they shouldn’t use governmental force to achieve their ends. That’s how we got drag queen story hour and mutilated kids. The recent rollback of these policies shows us that power is what works....
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Everyone Has Dark Thoughts. Most Don’t Kill Their Children.
It’s one thing to identify mental illness as a causative factor in a horrific crime, but it’s another thing entirely to join a fan club and stand outside the courthouse with a picket sign. We’re witnessing something far darker than mental health advocacy....
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Could AI Answer Your Next 911 Call?
In the haste to use AI for everything, we risk replacing something as fundamental as a human voice on the end of the phone in a crisis. Let’s slow down and think this through. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/could-ai-answer-your-next-911-call
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Dr. Fauci and Medicine’s Branding Crisis
The ire toward Dr. Anthony Fauci is deserved, but he was merely the figurehead of a much larger apparatus that too many Americans trust blindly. The COVID era revealed a pseudo-religion at work in modern America. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/dr-fauci-and-medicines-branding-crisis
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Abortion Movement Abandons “Pro-Choice” Pretense
California is suing Heartbeat International to prevent the pro-life group from providing Abortion Pill Reversal—or from even providing information about using progesterone to reverse a medication abortion in progress. They’re starting to admit it: It’s not about “choice” and it never was....
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Andrew Tate: Vice Masqueraded as Masculinity
The most troubling question is not whether Andrew Tate and his brother will be convicted, but how they amassed an audience of millions of young men by equating degeneracy with masculinity. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/andrew-tate-vice-masqueraded-as-masculinity
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First Their Lives. Now Their Organs.
When euthanasia became normalized and societally acceptable, there was always going to be a gradual dehumanization of the man. In the next phase, bioethicists are asking why we can’t kill someone via organ removal. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/first-their-lives-now-their-organs
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Seeing Your Friend Before God
There is a type of connection that is seldom reflected upon in the modern age, and which comes from understanding the nature of another person as he exists before God. Here’s my latest, on the eternal dimension of friendship among the faithful:...
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Why I’ve Been Writing Less
I realize that I have been less productive in recent times than I would like and than history attests to. I wanted to provide a brief explanation. I’ve developed a medical issue that requires intervention. I would be grateful for your prayers over the coming months. Read it instead:...
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The Moment Belfast Fought Back
An attempted beheading in Belfast ended when an Irishman intervened with a hurley stick. For a brief moment, the scene became symbolic of something much larger: a people deciding whether their culture, their neighbors, and their civilization are still worth defending....
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Avoiding the Blackpill Temptation
Watching a man say yes to the call of the priesthood is always stirring. It is all the more so in a diocese plagued by uncertainty and in which personal piety and reverence are discouraged or outright sneered at. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/avoiding-the-blackpill-temptation
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The Christian Meaning of Memory
It’s not a given that we would care about history. In fact, it is increasingly common for people to treat our history with a sense of resentment. The monks of old spent their lives preserving such a record. Have you considered why?
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We’re Trading More Than Goods
We are increasing our trade relationship with China at the same time that they increase their persecution of Christians. Trade is not morally neutral. Every economic alliance carries moral consequences. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/were-trading-more-than-goods
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When Envy Becomes Revolutionary: The Palisades Fire Arsonist
The arsonist charged with the Palisades Fire wants to destroy the rich, but what all communists really want to do is burn civilization itself. Read it yourself: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/when-envy-becomes-revolutionary-the
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Through the Lens of Death
In a culture that avoids death, we lose sight of how to live. Let’s rethink success, comparison, and moral clarity through mortality.
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Sterilizing the Poor with Despair
There is an expanding worldview, even amongst Catholics, which sees children not as an end unto themselves but as a mere choice among many, a status symbol, an indicator of financial stability, or simply the means of happiness for unfulfilled couples. In this understanding, children become merely...
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A State Against Its Own People
A state is never neutral. It encourages certain choices by what it makes easier. Now that laws are making death easier than care, an implicit statement is being made about human worth. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/a-state-against-its-own-people
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The Injustice of Taxpayer-Funded Immigration Defense
When we make idols of a criminal class, we make victims of the upright. California plans to use taxpayer funds to pay for immigration defense attorneys for those facing deportation. It represents a perverse redistribution of resources away from the innocent....
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Have a Blessed Triduum
The Triduum is upon us. These are the three days in which we walk with Christ through his darkest moments—those times that were so monstrous because of us. It’s also a time in which we see so clearly that He knows what it is to suffer in every way, not only in the more direct manner as upon the...
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Losing Oneself to Performance
Performance culture doesn’t just encourage people to lie. It teaches them to disappear into a mere echo of the crowd: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/losing-oneself-to-performance
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Why a Premature Baby Feels Like an Accusation
When a premature baby fights for life, the natural response should be compassion. Increasingly, it is something else. What does it mean when even the sight of a child feels like an accusation https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/why-a-premature-baby-feels-like-an
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Turn Off the Noise. Light a Candle.
We don’t have to pretend that we dislike modern conveniences, but we must acknowledge that we have souls, and live accordingly. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/turn-off-the-noise-light-a-candle
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When the World Tilts: On Living in Uncertain Times
Even in wartime, people still had to choose whether to marry, baptize, build, and hope. We are no different. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/when-the-world-tilts-living-in-uncertain
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The Light We Leave Behind
What if the ashes remind us not only that we are dust, but that we are meant to refract divine light? Perhaps you already have loved ones who are doing so. Read it at: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/the-light-we-leave-behind
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The Echo Chambers That Form Killers
Perhaps we should ask what kind of culture is forming young men who feel untethered from reality.
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Announcement: A New Show
You’re listening to a podcast dedicated to narrations of my written work, and that will continue. I’ve also started a separate daily podcast with my co-host, Jakob Kraft, where we comment on the news. To check out that show, visit RiseRight.org.
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The War on Truth, in the Name of Empathy
Hillary Clinton has written an op-ed for The Atlantic that is permeated with moral indignation. She decries “MAGA’s War on Empathy” and then engages in a one-woman war on Truth.
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Snowfall and the Lie of Modern Man
A snowstorm has a way of reminding us how small we are. For all our technology, we wait and hope just as our forebears did.
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Outrage Is Not a Moral Vision: Lauren Southern’s Regret
Lauren Southern’s memoir shows how the populist right devolved, destroying its main actors and leaving audiences lost. We can’t build a civilization on outrage. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/outrage-is-not-a-moral-vision-lauren
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There’s No God in Chess
We exhaust ourselves trying to plan futures we were never given grace to survive. There’s no God in chess, but there is in real life. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/theres-no-god-in-chess
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When a Diocese Undermines Its Own Vocations
A diocese’s seminarians reflect its spiritual ecology. So why dismantle what was working? The Diocese of Charlotte is delaying ordinations and stripping seminarians of their cassocks, while forcing them into a year of lay work mid-formation. Read the article:...
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Unworthy of justice: When ideology determines victims
There is a growing ideological trend that seeks to deprive those broadly considered to being “on the right” of any and all rights, through dehumanization and the systematic exclusion from key institutions. I lived this reality in a small way when I was made a victim of a minor crime in an…
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The Claim Christianity Makes at Christmas
Christianity has never been a faith of mere sentiment. From the first century onward, it has made a claim on the whole person, and it comes into sharp focus at Christmas. Read the article: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/the-claim-christianity-makes-at-christmas
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Five Books That Can Change Your Soul
Five books stood out this year. In an age of excess, noise, and content masquerading as wisdom, these were rare companions: books that changed the way I think, pray, judge, and remember. From Boethius on suffering and providence, to C.S. Lewis’ medieval imagination, to ecclesial indifference, and...
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The Moral Collapse That Metal Detectors Can’t Fix
Another school stabbing. More calls for metal detectors. But metal detectors don’t fix a culture that can’t raise children. Read it: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/the-moral-collapse-that-metal-detectors
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The COVID Reckoning That Came Too Late
Years after vilifying dissenters, the FDA now concedes vaccine deaths. But the damage to bodies, souls, and public trust cannot simply be footnoted. This late reckoning reveals more than it resolves.
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Sarah Cain at the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women
Prefer to watch the video? You can do that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8vT1kecJRI
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Inside the Sterile Doctor’s Office
If we treat people like projects to be optimized, we shouldn’t be surprised when everything becomes cold: medicine, workplaces, even our own homes. https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/inside-the-sterile-doctors-office
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Judge, Discriminate, and Hold Prejudices.
(Just make sure they are the right ones.) Modern society treats judgment as a sin and prejudice as a crime. But without them, we lose all standards, and even justice itself. Theodore Dalrymple saw this decay firsthand. We cannot reject all prejudices, but we can choose wisely.
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Don’t Blame the Universe
Our language has grown timid. We say “karma,” not “justice.” “The universe,” not “God.” But empty words make empty vision. They flatten our imaginations and mislead our aims. Read: https://writings.crusadergal.com/p/dont-blame-the-universe
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Surrendering Truth for Peace
When “peace” means surrendering the truth, it’s not peace at all. Pope Leo XIV’s prayer with King Charles III reveals what happens when faith becomes diplomacy and when nations built on Christ forget who their true King is.
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Against the Cult of the Dignified Death
Our culture worships comfort and efficiency, even in death. But human dignity isn’t found in control; it’s seen in the endurance of suffering, the reality of grief, and the power of love in unbearable circumstances.
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Inside the Remaining Charlotte TLM
It was claimed that having the TLM at parishes was divisive. So, paradoxically, faithful Catholics were forcibly divided from their parish communities and sent long distances away, that they may not worship in the same spaces as their neighbors....
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Where Heaven Still Touches Earth
Our ancestors built for Heaven. We build for efficiency. But in Buffalo, I found a church that still remembers what beauty is for.
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The Death That Spoke Louder Than Leaders
The crowd at Charlie Kirk’s memorial reminds us of a reality that we have forgotten: that those who die for a cause only inspire others to follow them. We live in an age of comfort and uninspired leaders. We crave something more.
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The Slave Market in Our Midst
We claim to be better than the people of pre-modernity: learned, developed, civilized. But our most vulnerable experience a different reality. What do we do when that homosexual couple in the family texts a photo of the baby that they purchased through surrogacy?...
About this show
Sarah is a political commentator who seeks to correct the course of modern culture. She is a contributor to Catholic World Report, Crisis Magazine, and Catholic Answers, along with producing regular videos about the decline of the West. Catch up on the latest at https://CrusaderGal.com
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