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How Disney Killed Snow White

Mary Rose Somarriba

Disney’s live action version of Snow White, a spectacular flop at the box office, continues to get widespread criticism. Many have directed their ire at lead actress Rachel Zegler,...

The Mixed Message of Anora

Mary Rose Somarriba

Screenwriter and director Sean Baker’s Anora won four Oscars at the 2025 Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Motion Picture. Baker has been known to...

The OnlyFans Exploitation Trap

Mary Rose Somarriba

OnlyFans creators are competing to have sex with as many men as possible in the shortest amount of time. It started in October last year, when twenty-three-year-old Lily Phillips...

Recommended Summer Reading

Mary Rose Somarriba

New York isn’t quite as extreme as Paris, but the city gets noticeably emptier at the end of July and into August. It’s almost quiet and peaceful. OK, not...

Tiffany’s Supports Planned Parenthood

Mary Rose Somarriba

If there’s something we’ve learned from the fiasco last week with our leaders risking a government shutdown rather than let go of government funding for the nation’s largest abortion...

Are iPhones Acceptable in Church and Synagogue?

Mary Rose Somarriba

The existence of new religious apps for iPhone and Android, such as iMissal and the Confession app, reveal increasing numbers of people using their smart phones to assist them...

Last Night’s Play that’s Still in My Head This Morning

Mary Rose Somarriba

I had the pleasure of seeing the play   Arrah-na-Pogue at New York’s Storm Theatre last night. Monica Weigel wrote a lovely review of it for us yesterday, and...

Anti-Blasphemy Laws = Anti-Religious Freedom

Mary Rose Somarriba

Some food for thought from today’s Wall Street Journal .

Stanley Rothman (1927 – 2011)

Mary Rose Somarriba

A sad goodbye to the scholar and FT writer Stanley Rothman , who died earlier this month at age 83. His name lives on through his son, David J....

One Woman’s “Bunch of Cells” Is Another Woman’s Beloved Child

Mary Rose Somarriba

In his column today , Ross Douthat captures well the paradox of how we view the fetus today in America: In every era, there’s been a tragic contrast between...

Our Babies, Ourselves

Mary Rose Somarriba

Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America by Sara Dubow Oxford, 320 pages, $29.95 n Imagine seeing a fetus in a jar. Many Americans have recently,...

NY’s Archbishop Dolan to lead USCCB

Mary Rose Somarriba

The New York Times just announced this “breaking news alert”: In an upset, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan elected president Tuesday of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, defeating...

For the Love of Bacon

Mary Rose Somarriba

According to a recent report in the U.K., a hard-working cafe owner has been ordered to tear down an extractor fan—because the smell of her frying bacon ‘offends’ Muslims. Mrs Akciecek...

The Nobel Prize that Wasn’t

Mary Rose Somarriba

A week after the Nobel Prize went to Robert Edwards for his accomplishments in developing in vitro fertilization as a treatment for infertility”and more than thirty years after Edwards’...

The Story of Lila Rose, in Her Own Words

Mary Rose Somarriba

Fresh from our October issue and available now for free online is “Fighting For Life”—the personal story of Lila Rose, incognito investigator of Planned Parenthood. Be sure to read...