Today's Gospel reading in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite concludes: Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant ...

Tonight at St. Matthew's Church in East Syracuse, NY, we celebrated a Novus Ordo High Mass for the Feast of the Conversion of St....

I recommend this excellent meditation by Fr. Al Kimel.

Lately I've been hearing, online and off, still more plaintive calls for "better adult catechesis." I'll say it one mo...

...to support traditional marriage by means such as this , and used it, the result would be called a new "Inquisition."

The trad world is on tenterhooks. An agreement with the SSPX is just around the corner . Methinks it always will be. As Mark Shea commen...

I've been accused of being too "liberal" by some traditionalist Catholics and some politically conservative Catholics. Well, ...

My title has the word 'liberalism' in scare quotes because I want to discuss the sort of liberalism that has grown scarier and scar...

Even some liberals wonder what Obama's been thinking with this HHS contraception mandate. So I'll lay it out simply. When a churc...

A shibboleth of modern Anglo-American philosophy is a belief to the effect that "one cannot infer an ought-statement from an is-statem...

The conclusion of new mega-meta-study, cited at the blog of Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse's Ruth Institute, is summed up by William West...

The topic named in my title is one that I've written about before, for an academic journal , on this blog,  and in the course of combo...

Given recent events, I thought it worthwhile to re-issue this three-year-old post and ask for opinions from thoughtful Catholics. Everybo...

By my fellow Dominican layman, Michael Seagriff .

For the ever-growing majority without a classical education, my allusion to Scylla and Charybdis can be understood well enough with the ...

Only an outrage combining religion and politics has managed to rouse me from a self-imposed silence over the past several months. I am ...

With less to lose, I am freer to speak my mind than most members of the American chattering class. So I'll just say it straight: Fe...

I just had to say that in this medium, as I once did on Facebook. The consternation I aroused there bodes well for the traffic I hope to ...

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You read that right. According to William E. Carroll —a Catholic philosopher currently ensconced as a good old Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford...