LGBT-ism versus Christianity
In the old days you had to be rather literate if you wished to be an anti-Christian. That is, you had to read a few books. You had to be able to follow an argument. Two centuries ago you would read...
View ArticleOn Capital Punishment
While writing this column, on another topic, I was distracted by a friend. He had me look at the news for “the latest” from Pope Francis. I was told he had changed Church teaching on the death penalty,...
View ArticleO Ireland
Ireland seems to have two kinds of weather. Either it’s raining, or it’s about to rain. At least that’s how it’s been the past week as the residual wind and water from Hurricane Ernesto made landfall...
View ArticleThe Mueller Manifesto
Cardinal Gerhard Mueller published a “Manifesto of Faith” (see here) last week. Actually, it was leaked prematurely by a Polish group. The Manifesto was supposed to appear yesterday, the eve of the...
View ArticleFrom “Home-Alone America” to “Primal Screams”: in 15 Years or Less
This week, Templeton Press is releasing my new book, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. Because the Faith and Reason Institute is my happy professional home, I’d like...
View ArticleWhen Did the Church’s Moral Teaching Cease Being Relevant to You?
Sometimes an article is just so important you have to draw people’s attention to it. That article is “Why Faithful Catholics Get Divorced” by Tom Hoopes, written fifteen years ago, but re-published...
View ArticleShould We Evangelize Protestants?
We should stop trying to evangelize Protestants, some Catholics say. “Let’s get our own house clean first, before we invite our fellow Christians in,” someone commented on a recent article of mine that...
View ArticleA Little Clarity on Some Big Questions
The Pew Research Center, a reliable source on American attitudes about religion, found in 2019 that 43 percent of American Catholics were “unaware” of Church teaching about Christ’s Real Presence in...
View ArticleLearning from Romeo and Juliet
A few weeks ago, I took down from my bookshelf Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. My intent was to write a column for The Catholic Thing on the contemporary significance of the tragedy of those two...
View ArticleThe Vatican Confesses
The power of truth is such that, if you wait long enough, your enemies themselves will confess it, though they may not understand that that is what they are doing. For “murder,” says Hamlet, setting...
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