At least praying might help make it so. We do indeed have much to repent of. A friend of mine has composed an ecumenical prayer service f...

Several friends have called my attention to a pair of posts over at Eirenikon: one called " On Original Sin and the Immaculate Concept...

Budding Orthodox scholar Perry Robinson of Energetic Procession , whose critiques of Catholic doctrine prompted me to begin blogging three y...

John Farrell of Farrellmedia has published a rather bracing article in Faith magazine called " Has the Church Missed the Import of Sc...

On this Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, I just thought it appropriate to post this vignette from the pro-life front.

The Old Testament proclaimed the Father openly, and the Son more obscurely. The New manifested the Son, and suggested the Deity of the Spiri...

Let me say at the outset that I believe there is an important use for the Vincentian Canon. I did not always believe that. I believe it now ...

In her July 6 column , Maureen extensively quotes an elderly priest on "whom not to marry." To many groups of (mostly) females, he...

As I expected, Fr. Robert Hart and one of his Continuum colleagues, Fr. Matthew Kirby, have replied to my post " Why they still don...

“From the dawn of the Republic, America’s quest for freedom has been guided by the conviction that the principles governing political and so...

In casual conversation this week with a few local Catholics, I heard more of the old CW about how the growing shortage of priests can be res...

The Continuum is a traditional-Anglican blog whose contributors have, of late, grown gloomier than ever about the prospects of salvaging th...

Today is the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, who were martyred in Rome together. The Church of Rome still "has the bones"--a fac...

I saw all the devil's traps set upon the earth, and groaned and said, " Who do you think can pass through them?" And...

As Victor Davis Hanson points out , that's America's direction now. Whether it's strengthening the family, reforming health care...

In the combox to my post The Filioque VIII , Photios Jones addressed me as follows: If some Hierarch in the Orthodox Church were to use a ...

Two readers have suggested that I create a category, or what Blogger calls a "label," for all of my posts dedicated to the filioqu...

1. I recommend David Mills' first column for Inside Catholic , entitled "Gay Marriage and the Slippery Slope to Polygamy. " Yo...

The "responsorial psalm" at today's Mass got me thinking and praying. This part in particular, from Psalm 68: For your sake ...

In the "insanely long" combox to my post of June 9 " A rad-trad converts ," I finally broke down and summed up for my l...