Last year’s news was packed with reports of polling results. Debates over what the data reveal and how best to respond to what they portend saturated talk shows and opinion pieces. Most of the chatter, […]
Cardinal Vincent Nichols’ echoing of claims that Amoris laetitia changed no doctrines occasioned a question for me: Am I the only (or among the few) Amoris critics who agrees with Amorisdefenders that Pope Francis made no doctrinal changes in Amoris? I do not think that […]
The official gun-related teaching of the Catholic Church is not entirely clear. There’s little doubt, however, about how the current hierarchy leans: they favor fewer guns in civilian hands. (I’ve discussed this in a series […]
MPAA Rating: R USCCB Rating: AIII Reel Rating: (3 out of 5 reels) The history of “Fatima’s century” is marked with blood, perhaps most famously with the Holocaust and the six million Jews who were […]
Some preliminaries: I quite agree that the United Nations is a sad, and sometimes malicious, joke. I understand that some people have been the victims of a globalized world economy and that the “Davos people” […]
Anyone even vaguely acquainted with my work knows that I advocate vigorous argument on behalf of religious truth. I have long called for a revival in what is classically known as apologetics, the defense of […]
The Catholic bishops of South Sudan have condemned as immoral and senseless a complex war in their country, which has proven far bloodier than that of the Islamic State in Syria. The war in Africa’s […]
“We like to think we live in the most tolerant society of all time,” Mike Michalak points out dryly. “But […] our answer in the 1950’s with my Uncle Ray [was to tell] my Grandma […]
Canon 377 § 5 of the 1983 Code states “In the future, no rights and privileges of election, nomination, presentation, or designation of bishops are granted to civil authorities.” Frankly, the canonical theorist in me has […]
Another Earth Day is approaching, with corresponding pronouncements about environmental doom. What should we make of this in 2017? Discussions about the environment typically consist of agreement that the environment needs to be protected, even […]
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