All too briefly we were permitted to savor the image of the Speaker of the House poring over the writings of St. Augustine in the watches of...

"... once you intuit the Absolute, humility is the only option. It is as natural as the urge to dump a bag of manure on Bill Maher ....

by Perry Robinson One of the lines beginning to codify as a criticism of the Republican V.P pick Sarah Palin is that she made a choice to h...

In June 2004, just as the American presidential-election campaign was ramping up, then-Cardinal Ratzinger issued a "memorandum" to...

Wish I'd thought of that. One wonders how much more money I'd make with it though.

The best I could think to do on this anniversary is offer this podcast by The Anchoress . It is drawn chiefly from the Liturgy of the Hours...

The first is Ruth Gledhill , religion correspondent for the London Times . And I'm only a bit ashamed to admit it. I'm not jealous b...

I had meant to post this yesterday, the feast of Mary's birthday, but got rather full of myself writing about freedom . Still, I remain ...

From The Boston Globe : "Kerry Kennedy talks about her new book, in which she strives to reconcile her Catholic faith with the teaching...

I kid you not. Most of us have heard the phrase "the domestic Church". A few Catholics even use it. In the theology of John Paul...

It's a Jesuit one, of course. You decide

The selection of the Governor of Alaska to be the Republican candidate for Vice-President has stirred a frenzy. She's just what the Repu...

[OK, I lied. When I started Philosophia Perennis last week, I gave out the impression that I would close down this blog. But I've come t...

If all goes as planned and prayed, this will be my last post at this blog. I have launched a new blog at Wordpress called Philosophia Perenn...

The following is the main body of a press released e-mailed to me yesterday: (Merrimack, New Hampshire)— The Thomas More College of Liberal ...

I've stumbled across a rather interesting and definitely useful site: Philosophy Bites . Unlike the occurrence of the word 'bites...

The Speaker of the House apparently has her own account of Catholic teaching on the subject of abortion. At least she is to be credited for...

Long ago, St. Augustine remarked: “There are some whom God has, whom the Church has not. And there are some whom the Church has, whom God ha...

Everybody knows—OK, almost everybody who reads this blog—that the American bishops lack a unitary policy about giving the Eucharist to Catho...

Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of National Review Online , notes how clearly the Catholicism of Nancy Pelosi differs from that of the Catechism...