René Girard, one of the most influential Catholic philosophers in the world, died last week at the age of 91. Born in Avignon and a member of the illustrious Academie Francaise, Girard nevertheless made his […]
It’s hard to say what exactly happened here. When the Bond reboot of the Daniel Craig era began with Casino Royale there was a sense that while all the trappings of the cinema icon were […]
The fourth Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage recently brought to Rome more than one thousand tradition-minded Catholics from around the world October 22-25, 2015. The pilgrimage concluded on Sunday, October 25 with a late-morning Pontifical Mass for […]
A batch of recent articles by solid Catholic writers assures worried readers that Pope Francis has not changed Church doctrine on the permanence of marriage—which he has not, of course, though I guess some rattled Catholics […]
With the recent legalization of “same-sex marriage” in Ireland earlier this year, the sexual revolutionaries feel they have the momentum to decriminalize abortion on the Emerald Isle. Abortion is prohibited under the Constitution’s eighth amendment, which […]
One of the greatest Catholic thinkers of our time, Professor René Girard, has died. He left this world at 91 years of age, on November 4, in Stanford, California. One of the things Girard wrote […]
If an archbishop-elect thinks the word “mercy” is “somewhat condescending”, what must he think of words such as “sin”, “damnation”, “hell”, and “orthodoxy”? We don’t know for certain, but perhaps that is just as well, […]
Spectre, the latest installment in Daniel Craig’s incarnation of the James Bond character, opens with an eerie sentence spread across the screen: “The dead are alive.” The camera then plunges into an elongated opening shot […]
John Martens, a biblical scholar, published a piece online at the Jesuit-run America last Friday on “Jesus’ Teachings on Marriage and Divorce.” The entry is intended as a response to Ross Douthat’s invitation to those […]
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