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June 2016

June 06, 2016

Ever Wonder Why Saint Paul Went to Arabia?

Arabia is a geographical entity familiar and vexing to the contemporary Westerners, but what could...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Jesus Didn’t Call God Daddy

One of the perennial temptations for Christians is to forget their Jewish roots. Anthony...

May 24, 2016

Freedom of Religion Isn’t Free

You might think this post will be about how great a price Catholics will have...

May 21, 2016

The Democratic Clown Bus Parks Alongside the GOP Clown Bus . . .

It was so much fun for the Democrats to ridicule the GOP "clown car" that...

May 18, 2016

Big Win for Little Sisters is a Huge Loss for Catholicism

Is religious freedom really free? The big Supreme Court religious freedom win for the Little Sisters of the...

May 15, 2016

Pentecost Special: The Secret Old Testament Teaching on the Femininity of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit made unexpected feminine appearances in ancient Hebrew traditions. “I have told you...

May 07, 2016

Trump Sounds Like Derrida When Talking to Woodward about Lincoln & Nixon

That philosophy died yesterday, since Hegel or Marx, Nietzsche, or Heidegger, and that philosophy should...

May 05, 2016

Cinco de Mayo Especial: The Legacy of Rene Girard

Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican Army's surprising defeat of French troops at the Battle of Puebla on May 5,...

May 02, 2016

This 1 Thing Has Never Before Happened in the Sistine Chapel

No, it's not nudity, as you can still tell from the cover photo even if...

May 01, 2016

Happy May Day (Resurrection Sunday) to the Russian Orthodox!

Товарищ, Христос воскрес! Воистину воскрес! Happy May Day, Resurrection camp starts today. The wonderful thing about...

April 2016

April 14, 2016

Happy 1050th Birthday Poland!

I ran across the oldest recorded text in Poland's history today. The hymn in question...

April 13, 2016

Postmodernist Lacan Proclaims the Triumph of the One, True, Catholic Religion

It is the right time to unveil this bombshell on the day when one of...

February 2016

February 13, 2016

Does Pope Francis’s Joint Declaration with Patriarch Kirill Throw Eastern Catholics Under the Bus?

The mainstream religious media coverage of the Joint Declaration signed by Pope Francis and Patriarch...

February 10, 2016

God is with Humankind Right Down to the Cellar of Creaturely Existence

Thanks to “the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross and His transformation of human existence...

February 09, 2016

Catholic Historian Takes Back “Secular” Enlightenment

The 18th century worldwide intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment spawned what's called a Republic...

February 08, 2016

Larycia Hawkins & Wheaton Parts Ways; A Catholic University Should Hire Her

There are plenty of good reasons for Catholic universities to hire Professor Larycia Hawkins who...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

What’s History’s Most Unjust “Just War” Justification?

The concept of "Just War" originates in the writings of St. Augustine. He was perhaps...

January 23, 2016

The Roots of Protecting Life From Conception in the Catholic Enlightenment

The story of the conflict between science and religion during the Enlightenment is mostly false. Catholics...

January 21, 2016

Miracle at Cana: Drinking with the Bible in Hand

Karl Barth is said to have recommended taking "your Bible and newspaper, and reading both."...

January 15, 2016

Abortion is Not a Conservative Issue (Millennials Know This)

Not too long ago Kristin Dombek wrote a widely-circulated favorable review of the book Defenders...

January 12, 2016

God DOES Play Dice and Cheats?

I bet on completing a PhD in the humanities. Therefore, I am a betting man....

January 08, 2016

Dow Jones vs. Paula Jones & Christian Unity

Ut Unum Sint? There are plenty of dividing lines among Christians. Overcoming them has led...

January 07, 2016

The Altar Girl Storm in a Teacup

I’m a former girl altar server. I served for eight years in my parish and...

January 06, 2016

Edith Stein and the Assassination of God’s Epiphany

I forced myself to reflect upon the importance of getting our pictures of God sorted...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church’s Porn Problem

It's kinda not what it sounds like. Today (the day I am writing) is December...

December 29, 2015

The Story of the Virgin Birth Runs with the Grain of Christianity

Mary Magdalene would not be a saint if, as Giles Fraser would have it, striving...

December 27, 2015

How Is Sarah Silverman Right About Jesus Being Gender Fluid?

Even though Sarah Silverman is not a theologian, her trolling tweet about the gender fluidity...

December 26, 2015

We are not Only to Become Christians, but Christ!

The close of Advent is not an end but a renewal of the work of...

December 14, 2015

Politics is Traditional for the Councils of the Church

For the councils of the church, politics is traditional. After Vatican Council II, many people...

December 09, 2015

George W. Obama Says Islam is a Religion of Peace

The differences between George Bush and Barack Obama on the economy, military, spying (on you,...