Given recent events, I thought it worthwhile to re-issue this three-year-old post and ask for opinions from thoughtful Catholics. Everybo...

I just had to say that in this medium, as I once did on Facebook. The consternation I aroused there bodes well for the traffic I hope to ...

Over at Called to Communion, one of my favorite blogs, Bryan Cross has posted a rather amusing meditation on and critique of "ecclesial...

In my online career, I have found that the issues sparking the longest debates are almost invariably ecclesiological, i.e., questions concer...

In Part I of this series , I rebutted the argument that the Catholic Magisterium is "accountable" to nobody and nothing but itself...

Among Westerners these days, it has become commonplace to identify oneself as "spiritual but not religious." When people repeat th...

As promised, I have deleted my lengthy post of February 1, "Which contest is worth pissing in?". I did so in order to respect the ...

Long ago, St. Augustine remarked: “There are some whom God has, whom the Church has not. And there are some whom the Church has, whom God ha...

Everybody knows—OK, almost everybody who reads this blog—that the American bishops lack a unitary policy about giving the Eucharist to Catho...

Let me say at the outset that I believe there is an important use for the Vincentian Canon. I did not always believe that. I believe it now ...