Like several other friends, Prof. Scott Carson has called my attention to this video from Catholicvote.com: I agree wholeheartedly that the...

HT to Mark Shea .

No, I don't mean Sarah Palin, though I would enjoy applying that theme to her. I mean the Mother of God. Today is the Feast of Our Lady ...

There are many such lies, but today I can only call attention to three. One is simply American; two are American and Catholic. First, as I ...

Years ago, when it still made sense for me to subscribe to print periodicals, I used to get a conservative journal called Modern Age. It was...

The spouses, in fact, having received the gift of love, are called to become in turn gift to one another without reservations. Only thus the...

In the "new" Roman calendar, today is the Feast of the Guardian Angels; yesterday was the feast of the archangels mentioned in the...

The Obama campaign is doing its best to destroy the credibility of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen . She is what certain Catholic mystics li...

In prayer of late, I can't escape the feeling that the world is at a tipping point. It is time to offer ourselves for whatever role God ...

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has just called Sarah Palin "disabled." You can read w...

From the current issue of First Things: In our day, ideological minorities seeking refuge in the protections of the Constitution frequently ...

Cosmos, Liturgy, Sex has an excellent analysis of the issues facing Catholics in this year's presidential election. Appropriately, it r...

VI: In the Ruins of New York Oh how quiet it is after the black night When flames out of the clouds burned down your cariated teeth, And whe...

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...