Is Patriotism a Virtue?
“The man who has no country has no God, either.” – Dostoevsky Whether they find him persuasive or no, few readers will deny that Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most significant Catholic philosophers of […]
Month: June 2016
Interview
Back to the Land, Back to the Lord
Marcus Grodi is familiar to many as the host of The Journey Home television series on EWTN and as founder of the Coming Home Network International. A native of Ohio, he studied polymer science at Case […]
Essay
Sinners, Prophets, and the Business of Heaven
Readings: 2 Sm 12:7-10, 13 Ps 32:1-2, 5, 7, 11 Gal 2:16, 19-21 Lk 7:36—8:3 or 7:36-50 What did the most famous king in the Old Testament and a poor, anonymous woman in the Gospels […]
Analysis
Some thoughts on Pope Francis’ homily about “ideals”, “rigidity”, and “heretics”
On Thursday, the Vatican Radio reported on the Holy Father’s daily homily, opening with this summary: Pope Francis warned on Thursday against an excessive rigidity, saying those within the Church who tell us “it’s this […]
Books
Fox’s Book of Augustine
Garry Wills, author of such book-length screeds as Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit and Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, begins his deliciously wicked, and almost completely unfair, review of Robin Lane Fox’s Augustine: Conversions to […]
Opinion
Thomas Aquinas and angry American voters
Americans, a goodly number of them anyway, are angry. Opinion polls and both parties’ primaries are evidence of that. But will this anger be put to good use or squandered? At the moment, squandering appears […]
Analysis
The Metaphysics of the Bathroom
Tempers are running high over the transgender bathroom debate. Who could have imagined a few years ago that we would need to discuss the appropriate destination for the body’s evacuative functions according to gender, or […]
Essay
4 Lessons on Divine Mercy from the Woman at the Well
I had the enormous privilege last week of addressing English-speaking priests from around the world who had gathered in Rome for a special Jubilee celebration of the Year of Mercy. I met fathers from the […]
Abp. Gomez on legalization of assisted suicide in California: “This is the beginning of tyranny.”
Here is the full statement from Most Reverend José H. Gomez Archbishop of Los Angeles on Legalization of Assisted Suicide in California, released a short time ago: Tomorrow, California becomes the fifth state in […]
Opinion
There aren’t “two popes” in any way, shape, or form
Life, even Catholic life, is full of ambiguities, but some things either are or aren’t. It’s a ball or a strike. It’s a Toyota or a Ford. You’re baptized or you aren’t. The papacy would […]