For some reason, Canadian-Italian artist Cosimo Cavallaro has decided to generate publicity with blasphemy according to formula: a chocolate...

I'm quite grateful to the heavy hitters for the combox discussion on my latest post about the essence/energies distinction . They've...

As I prepare to hit the hay before working third shift tonight, I ought to explain my relative silence to my vast and loyal readership. I...

Having just lamented, in the combox to my previous EED post, that I had not got "a peep from the Orthodox" about my irenic proposa...

One of my life's many ironies is that this blog is hosted by Google, the Microsoft of the Internet. Its founders seem to have no use for...

Last Saturday the 24th, Pope Benedict held an open audience in St. Peter's Square with scores of thousands of Communion and Liberation m...

Today's readings from Cycle C for the Fifth Sunday of Lent have me meditating even beyond the solid homily I heard at a vigil Mass last ...

Less than 24 hours before Pope John Paul II died, then-Cardinal Ratzinger gave an address to the Benedictine nuns at Subiaco that would, in...

Kudos to Joshua Goforth for the new look of this blog. We had been planning the rollout for quite some time, but I didn't understand th...

The fairly detailed debate between Brandon of Siris and Todd Bates, the Anglican Scotist, about the latter's theological argument for ga...

To the secular mind, the foster father of Jesus is a loser. Thus if, as Christianity asserts, Jesus was conceived only by the Holy Spirit an...

In a previous post I briefly argued that there is hardly any substantive difference between the Catholic understanding of authentic develop...

Since St. Patrick is my confirmation saint, I thought I'd take this opportunity to thank him for who he is for me as well as all he has ...

Normally I post my meditations on the Mass's Scripture readings on Sunday night, after people have heard their pastors preach. In my exp...

The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has just issued a notification on the work of liberation theologian Jon Sobrino, who ...

With hat tip to Dawn Eden , I present in sequence the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen's presentation on The Meaning of Mass as a three-par...

It's fairly easy to adhere firmly to the tenets of the Faith on the Internet. That's almost fun, save when the ensuing, inevitable ...

As I read it, I'm liking more and more the Pope's new, lengthy, and long-awaited Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist and the Mass...

Moments of clarity are all too rare and all too necessary. I am grateful for them when I get them. In high school and college, I had a hard ...