An Italian parliamentary commission concluded last week that the Soviets were behind the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. T...

So says The Christian Science Monitor . I believe it. The emptiness of secularism, consumerism, and promiscuity takes time to become clear t...

I'm already blowing it. I left Ash Wednesday Mass at my local parish right after Communion. That's because I didn't want to wait...

Last week, Bishop Robert Vasa of Portland, Oregon (left) wrote a hard-hitting pastoral letter suggesting that the "pro-choice" p...

On February 15, according to CNS , "Spain’s House of Representatives passed [a] new law on assisted reproduction, which allows a woman ...

You gotta hand it to Joan Chittister. Amid the worldwide furor about a Danish cartoon of Muhammad, a 60-year-old Catholic priest, Andrea San...

With today's piece entitled " Why are Men so Afraid of Money ?", the glizty yet politically savvy columnist Arianna Huffington...

If they are fortunate, most people celebrate their birthdays, or at least have them celebrated for them. That is a well-nigh universal cultu...

Today is the birthday of my younger daughter, Adrianna. For reasons I should not and will not get into publicly, please offer your special p...

The blowback was, thank God, inevitable. As Valentine's Day approaches we face the now-expected spectacle of various institutions of hig...

At least I know of no better way to put it. A federal court in New York has ruled that it's impermissible to display Nativity scenes on...

You'll note that I've added a "Support Denmark" banner and link in the upper-right corner of this blog. Here's why. In...

This time by invitation, thank you. The illustrious Pontificator , who has been memed by Palamite , has memed me to answer the following. I ...

Around the blogosphere this week, I've been confronting the sort of claim that many Catholics bring up as justification for dissent from...

"Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil..." Such was the promise with which serpent seduced Adam and Eve into rebellion agains...

For understandable political reasons, not even President Bush among Western leaders presents our war with "Islamist" terrorists as...

While some of the poor (especially poor women of childbearing age) suffer from iron deficiency, a far worse affliction is irony -deficiency....

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This is a very slightly revised version of the sixth and final article of my series on Pontifications on teachings of the Catholic Church t...

As a small penance for my sins, I have now finished viewing atheistic scientist Richard Dawkins' two-part PBS television series on relig...