Like much of what Jesus said, today's Gospel reading is often, because conveniently, misunderstood. When it is sung that "they...

As evidenced by the fact that there was no violence at this occasion: You gotta hear it to believe it, but it's far from uncommon. The s...

I find this interesting. The President of the Evangelical Theological Society , Francis J. Beckwith, has just returned to the Catholic Chur...

Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer, President of Human Life International , has posted an article suggesting as much. It offers an informed argument f...

The House of Representatives has passed a bill extending the Federal definition of "hate crimes" to " sexual orientation, ge...

The following is the text of a mass e-mail forwarded to me by a friend: Dear Colleague, The power of the radical homosexual movement in...

No, that's not the segue into an interminable rant—though admittedly the only thing that restrains me from such things is the drain on t...

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver is my favorite U.S. bishop, next to my own of course. On April 21, Chaput delivered himself of a very ...

The main conclusion of my two previous filioque articles, " Triadological diagram, anyone?" and " The filioque issue narro...

The latest interesting meme going around is the "Thinking Blogger Award." Ahistoricality has really been the one to get it going, ...

Whenever I think I'm done with this series , there arises another important issue calling for the same sort of treatment. Now that the V...

In 1984, the then-governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, gave a now-famous speech at Notre Dame arguing that American Catholics not only may, b...

I heard the preacher say last Sunday that there are two types of believers in the world: those who wake up and say "Good morning, Lord...

Sorry for the inactivity the last several days. I am facing my now-classic dilemma. My job, which holds close-to-zero intrinsic interest for...

It was just what we pro-lifers were hoping for when Samuel Alito was confirmed for SCOTUS. By a 5-4 decision, the Court has upheld the feder...

From a column by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Catholic sociologist: The struggle feminism created is not now, nor has it ever been, solely bet...

Today at Belmont Abbey, we offered prayers for the victims of the tragedy at Virginia Tech. Let us also pray for the killer who, naturally, ...

One of the countless ironies of contemporary Catholic life is that people who pride themselves on "listening to the people of God"...

Fr. Al Kimel has posted an interesting article which questions how much daylight there really is between the Catholic and Orthodox accounts...

Item #1: The complete exoneration of the Duke lacrosse players and the concomitant haling of Durham DA Michael Nifong before the state bar ...