Moses said to God, “But when I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ if they ask me, ‘What is ...

Ever since, for good reasons of his own, Fr. Al Kimel sharply restricted comments at Pontifications, this site has taken on much of the Orth...

Dave Morrison, author of Beyond Gay, takes note at his blog of a young German family that's unusual partly because it is large. But m...

The Latin conversio , whence comes the English "conversion," is a translation of the Greek metanoia , meaning a change of mind or ...

Today's Gospel recounts the Transfiguration of Christ before Peter, James, and John. While greater souls and minds than I have sermoniz...

My vast readership knows that I've sounded the alarm before about the juxtaposition of below-replacement birthrates in the developed wor...

A week ago I noted and briefly commented on a study done by Crisis about the state of the Catholic Church in America. I neglected to point ...

Lent anticipates the Easter Triduum liturgically for good reason: if followed, the discipline of Lent helps us to live more fully the Pascha...

No, I don't mean an all-you-can-eat fish fry. I mean that Catholics can get a plenary indulgence by doing something pretty simple toda...

A year and a half ago, I took note of and criticized a theological argument for gay marriage propounded by the Anglican Scotist, Todd Bates...

That's on top of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, folks. The purpose of those things is to empty ourselves so that Christ can fill us an...

If you don't have to ask what means, this new blog is for you. Authored by William Ballow, an earnest ecclesiological enquirer who somet...

The first human words quoted in Genesis are of a man's delight at his wife. The last human words quoted in Revelation are of a woman...

OK, I just had to say something about that film before it airs March 4 on the, ahem, Discovery Channel. Click the title for the article I...

I just came across this article suggesting that today's college students are more "narcissistic" than those of the past, perh...

Two Orthodox bloggers have posted reactions to my recent series of posts reacting to the Ochlophobist's recent series of posts on pansex...

The Lord's Prayer petitions God: "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." That is why today's Gospel in th...

A very interesting summary bearing that title appears in the current issue of Crisis . The report will load as a PDF in your browser window,...

I'd be interested in reactions, especially from Orthodox believers, to the online article of the above title. At the very least, there a...

The Ochlophobist ('T.O.' for short) continues his series on "pansexualism" in our culture with Orthodoxy and Contraception...