Some people ask me what I think about teaching online. I ask them how they like watching Mass online. “Really, that bad?” they reply. “No, actually, if you can believe it,” I tell them, “it […]
Each day brings with it, along with the bad news, ever more suggestions for what we can do with all our free time during the quarantine. I’m not sure where all the free time is […]
“Man has nature whacked.” C. S. Lewis relates this comment made to a friend of his at the beginning of the final chapter in his book The Abolition of Man. The comment was ironic, reports […]
Christ’s glorified body tells us that the promise of eternal life which Jesus’s death and resurrection has opened up for us results not in obliteration […]
I read an article on Albert Camus’ book The Plague recently. It said, in part: Like his hero, Camus gives us hope. He believes that the deadly crisis will encourage solidarity and bring out the […]
I have no wish to overdramatize our current challenges, but since many people are reading multiple articles daily about the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps this would be a good time to recall C. […]
I see that the German bishops have embarked on their “binding synodal process.” Who, other than a German, could get excited by a “binding process”? This is like getting all aflutter when the boss announces […]
“… they speak great swelling words of emptiness …” — 2 Peter 2:18 “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” — Edgar Allan Poe It used to […]
Bemused? Befuddled? Puzzled? What word do I use to describe my reaction to the recent media consensus that the U. S. bishops on their ad liminia visits to Rome will (and indeed must) fall all […]
“How can you believe in God when the world is so screwed up?” the student wrote. This is a common question. One way of responding is to say: “How can you not believe in God […]
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