One of my favorite movie lines is Jack Nicholson's, in the person of his character Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men: "You can'...

It's a relief to see that the one serious critique (so far) of my previous post on Luke 13: 24-30 comes from Scott Carson, a man I gre...

Today's Gospel passage in the normative rite of the Latin Church is what got me thinking about yesterday's topic, about heretics an...

Brandon at Siris has commented on a valid and important distinction made by St. Augustine. I want here to explain both why the distinction ...

Communion and Liberation's annual Rimini meeting opened on Monday with the theme: "Truth is the destiny for which we are made....

As a young man, I was a Republican of the libertarian sort. I believed that the sole duties of government were to defend the borders, enforc...

I don't mean me; I've never been thought of as a "nice" guy. At least I've never been called one to my face. I mean Je...

It is just as I thought. In a recent interview , Bishop Bernard Fellay of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X greeted Summorum Pontific...

Can anybody explain this in any terms other than the double standard? I doubt that the victim's having been a minister had much to do w...

What I love about this feast is that it affords us a beacon of hope during the dog days, which have never been pleasant for most people in t...

In an article on the First Things blog last week, Prof. Robert P. George wrote (emphasis added): There are many profound respects in whic...

Apologies to my friends and the rest of my vast readership for not having posted in a few weeks. I keep meaning to, honest. But every night ...

I've seen one Harry Potter movie and haven't read any of the books. I'm not buying the present one which, alas, appears to be th...

This vocations article in the Raleigh News and Observer is headlined in the usual, predictable way. But I found it worth a look for two rea...

Mark Shea tells them well . I can think of several people who either left the Church or wouldn't join her because, in James Joyce's...

Most people who meet me for the first time are surprised to learn that I am interested in theology. Some who have known me for a number of y...

One of the reasons I decided in college to remain Catholic is that many of the criticisms of the Church, from both non-Catholic Christians a...

Most serious Christians are what Luther said: simul peccator et justus , at once sinners and justified. I know I am. Luther's error was ...

Today's Gospel in the ordinary form of the Roman Rite was Luke 10: 38-42 , the story of The Lord in the middle of a minor domestic issu...