I don't know about you, but my mind needs a rest from time to time. Here's a pause that refreshes. You know you're a Catholic ne...

Well, I'm back from my interview in DC. As much because as in spite of my limitations, the Holy Spirit let them know I belonged there wi...

Friends, I'll be away this weekend for a job interview. This is important to me. I believe the wind of the Spirit is at my back. A coupl...

I'm sure all of you have heard of Philip Pullman and the movie The Golden Compass , even if you haven't had occasion to sample his b...

The London Times says yes . But like its establishment counterpart the BBC, the Times has a target-rich record of error in reporting Catho...

(Augmented on 3/7. New text in bold.) Since this is a presidential election year, I'm posting a lot more often about politics than I usu...

Many of you are familiar with my "Development and Negation" series, which I've condensed into a Google document accessible by ...

So indicates the CDF , which settles it. Amy Welborn has a good post up about it. Why this and why now? As in the case of women's ordin...

Dear readers, I had to remove the lush graphical background of this blog because changes Blogger made to the XML elements of the template we...

Well, it now looks like Tuesday, March 4 will be Senator Clinton's Alamo. The polls indicate that Senator Obama, even if he doesn't ...

Today's Gospel reading —from the "ordinary" form of the Roman Rite, of course—has long been one of my favorites. A man blind f...

When asked why he focused so much on matters of logic and philosophy of language, Catholic philosopher Peter Geach replied: "Somebody...

The following mass e-mail to priests from Fr. Thomas Euteneur, President of Human Life International , describes what needs to be done abou...

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I wanted to write about this yesterday but couldn't. It was the end of an era for me, and I don't handle era-endings well, at least ...

In view of today's Gospel reading , I mean that question for every adult, human soul. For as the Bible's nuptial imagery and a good ...

Most of my post last Saturday, entitled Struggling with incoherence II: who counts? , was a critical review of the debate between pro-life t...

Fr. Al Kimel has posted some fine thoughts on a perennial question that the Apostles themselves asked Jesus: "How many will be saved?...

Among the many works written by my first philosophy professor, Arthur C. Danto , is one called The Transfiguration of the Commonplace. It...

In my previous post, I expressed amusement as a philosopher about the intellectual muddles people get themselves into and struggle with. Tha...