Demanding special rights has been a successful strategy of the transgender advocacy movement. From lobbying for federal mandates for the inclusion of biological males on high school and college women’s sports teams to requirements for […]

Another year has come and gone in the history of cinema, now approaching its 130th anniversary. This was a great year for movies, perhaps the best since the lockdowns of 2020. Here are my picks […]

You might suppose from the title of Etienne Gilson’s The Unity of Philosophical Experience [orig. 1937; Ignatius Press, 1999] that it is a book about philosophy in general. And ultimately it is. But its bulk is […]

Readings: • Isa 60:1-6 • Psa 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13 • Eph 3:2-3A, 5-6 • Mt 2:1-12 Pope Paul VI, in the Apostolic Exhortation, “Marialis Cultus” (Feb. 1974), emphasized that the “Christmas season is a […]

Ianus bifrons—two-faced Janus—was the Roman god of liminal spaces, doorways, beginnings and endings, and transitions in general. So, here are some “January” reflections in both the calendar and the etymological senses of the term: Three […]

January 3 is the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. Does that feast make sense to people today? To appreciate its meaning, we need to give up some modern thinking and recover biblical […]

1). “What did Pope Francis say in Singapore about religions as paths to God?” (Sept 15, 2024) by Christopher R. Altieri. “The pontiff’s recent remarks to a group of young people have caused a furor […]