Whether coincidentally or by design, Ruth Gledhill has answered my criticism that she and her set give a pass to militant Islam while hold...

It is disappointing, if inevitable, that most images of the Sacrament of Reconciliation show a priest sitting in one half of a big dark box ...

This year, I want to greet Ash Wednesday with the observation that Lent is sacramental. I don't mean that the Church ought to make it th...

On February 5, I posted a piece called " The authority question restated ." I argued that the uncommitted inquirer, seeking the fu...

That is the title of one of the two new blogs created by the St. Louis Bertrand Chapter of the Dominican Laity of the Province of St. Joseph...

For several days, I pondered writing a great deal about two moves the Pope has made recently: lifting the 1988 excommunication of the SSPX ...

Yesterday, I wasn't planning to make my next post a continuation of the previous one. There are many issues of interest to Catholics bei...

This is the third time I have undertaken to defend the Catholic understanding of DD (cf. Vatican II, Dei Verbum §8; henceforth 'DV'...

It's been brought to my attention that Dr. William Witt , who teaches systematic theology at the Trinity School for Ministry , has refor...