Since I might be offline for a while, I thought I'd better get in my take on the Israel-Hezbollah war. War is always and unavoidably hor...

The conclusion of Fr. Philip Powell, OP's homily for today: To be blunt: the ignorant, the shallow, the skeptical, the despairing, the h...

Thomas Peters, blogmeister of the widely followed American Papist, has taken due note of a major article in today's New York Times abou...

I proudly admit to being one of those people whom their critics call "Neocaths," short for "neo-Catholics." I am a Neoca...

Before I sign off, I note that the Pontificator has memed me and several others with a list of book questions. I'm delighted to oblige....

Apologies to my vast readership for my lengthy absence. My computer got zapped by a thunderstorm several weeks ago, and that was with a sur...

Check out Fr. Martin Fox's homily on today's reading over at Bonfire of the Vanities . It is pithy, topical, and obeys all the other...

I could think of no better attention-grabbing title for this post than Zippy Catholic's of the same name, which is linked in the title. ...

A respectable young academic who's got his facts straight wonders why the economy, like the immortal Rodney, "gets no respect....

Thanks to Catholic World News , I have just learned that something called "The World Summit of Religious Leaders," held this past ...

Unfortunately, I find myself forced to agree with The Gonzman , though as a once-and-future academic I couldn't get away with putting th...

Just like Karl Keating of Catholic Answers : 1. The government shouldn't be able to tell me whether to paint my house yellow or green. I...

With hat tip to Ben Myers , I note that rising theology professor Cynthia Nielsen has attracted some interesting academic commentary on her ...

Yesterday, the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul on the Roman calendar , I heard a song on the radio by Peter, Paul, and Mary. That's what re...

Over at One Cosmos, clinical psychologist Richard Godwin asks: "Where does the idea of a universe, or cosmos come from, anyway?" ...

Hurrah! I have now been accused of being a "radical fundamentalist." Of the Catholic variety, mind you: nobody would ever accuse m...

The parochial vicar at my parish , Fr. James Ebright, is such a good homilist and confessor that our bishop is packing him off to study law ...

St. Paul called Christ crucified "a stumbling block to Jews, foolishness to Gentiles" (1 Corinthians 1:23). And so he remains—eve...

Coming of age in the Big Apple during the 1970s, I admired feminism. Well, most of it anyhow: I did not admire women, young or otherwise, w...

As per formal schedule, it's just ended. But in two respects, it's only beginning. The election of the liberal, ex-Catholic Katharin...