For the past several days, I've watched the debate at What's Wrong with the World about Obamacare in particular, and the economics ...

Much has been going on in the Vatican lately, and I plan a series of posts on those events. The one which most interests me is the publicati...

Paul Cella and Lydia McGrew have posted excellent observations for today at W4. I have only one thing to add. As Lydia implied, the United...

Many of my readers know that I used to be a co-author of the blog Pontifications , founded and edited by Fr. Al Kimel, which shut down in th...

Today's Gospel reading in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is about miraculous healings Jesus did in response to faith-filled reque...

That's the story the Catholic blogosphere is abuzz about. I wrote about the impending scandal two weeks ago. At that time, there was no...

At ST Ia Q2 A3 , where Aquinas offers his well-known "five ways" of proving God's existence, he notes and replies to two objec...

With the appointment of Alexia Kelley, until now executive director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) to a Department of ...

According to Carol McKinley , a Catholic blogger from Boston, Cardinal Seán O'Malley, the Archbishop of that city, is now in the abortio...

Among Westerners these days, it has become commonplace to identify oneself as "spiritual but not religious." When people repeat th...

That's the title of a book published by National Review co-founder James Burnham in 1964. I read it when I was in high school; and tho...

No, but sometimes it seems so. There's usually little sound thinking on the topic, and even when there is, it gets drowned out by gaffes...