Since publishing Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy in 2011, I have continued to follow closely discussions of Orthodox-Catholic relations. Now, in 2016, I rejoice that the international Orthodox-Catholic dialogue has just come to an agreed […]
Washington D.C., Oct 8, 2016 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- China’s “utterly disgraceful” human rights record is not just bad, it’s getting worse every year, a new Congressional report has warned. “The Chinese government’s human […]
After Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium was torn down in the old hometown in 2002, I began describing the vast empty space left behind as “the abomination of desolation.” Things are a bit more sightly now: two […]
Since the collapse of communism, Polish legislation has become among the most pro-life in Europe. Concurrently, popular support for abortion in Poland has plummeted, and the pro-life movement there is arguably the strongest on the […]
One of my favorite themes in literature and film is dystopia. I find that seeing things go wrong helps us think more clearly about what it would mean for things to go well. The upcoming […]
Many of the folks I know tell me that they cannot vote for either candidate in November. Powerful reasons are given about why each candidate would be a disaster in the White House. Since we […]
A young boy, 10 years old or so, faces the camera. Like many young boys, he is happy to be interviewed. This is war-torn Iraq, however, so he tells of the day ISIS came to […]
• If I see any more headlines about Kaine and “Able” or “Unable”, I’m going to go dwell in the land of Nod. • I didn’t watch the Vice-Presidential debate last night—I took my horse-obsessed […]
Recently, while working at my computer in Santa Barbara, I encountered a confounding problem and decided to call Brandon Vogt, who is not only the excellent content director at Word on Fire, but also a […]
Regarding the Christian burial of suicides the Pio-Benedictine Code differed from the Johanno-Pauline Code in that the former law expressly listed suicides as among those “public and manifest sinners” ineligible for ecclesiastical burial (1917 CIC 1240), while […]
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