Articles by Mark Brumley

Pope Benedict XVI issued yesterday an apostolic letter motu proprio, De Caritate Ministranda, on the Church’s charitable activities. Introduction “The Church’s deepest nature is expressed in her three-fold responsibility: of proclaiming the word of God […]

A lot could be said about Pope Benedict’s new book, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives, but one thing that should not be said is that it undermines confidence in the general historicity of the […]

Certain biblical scholars, including some Catholic ones, have a bad habit of claiming Jesus was born in Nazareth, not Bethlehem. The basis for such a claim? That Jesus was known as Jesus of Nazareth and, […]

“The commitment of Christians in the world has found a variety of expressions in the course of the past 2000 years. One such expression has been Christian involvement in political life: Christians, as one Early Church […]

Regarding the controversy over Holy Communion and one’s abortion stance (as well as one’s stance on some other issues), it is helpful to remember some things already said. For example, this six-point 2004 Memorandum from […]

Some mornings are like that. You know, you get up. You say some prayers. Kiss the wife. Do a little execrise and get your bowl of cereal. Then you discover a treasury of early morning […]

“Can we have a comprehensive view of nature if we do not include an adequate account of consciousness, cognition, and value?” asks William Carroll, in his review of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian […]

You might expect such a headline, given the seemingly disportionate attention the Catholic Church has received for clergy sexual abuse. Mind you, CWR covered clergy sexual abuse from the outset and criticized folks high and […]

Not the baseball Cardinals, who struck out making it to the World Series, nor the SF Giants, who will do mortal combat with the Tigers, but the ecclesial giants of the Catholic Church. The College […]