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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 12, 2016

God DOES Play Dice and Cheats?

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

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...

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 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 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 07, 2015

Was Vatican 1 Shockingly More Political Than Vatican 2?

Catholic History is stranger than you think. [Léger] spoke to me with excitement about his...

November 2015

November 11, 2015

A New Springtime for Hitler?

On Veterans Day it behooves us to take another look at Timothy Snyder's Black Earth:...

November 03, 2015

The Intangible and Terrifying Spiritual Energy in Rocamadour

I'm getting close to finishing Michel Houellebecq's novel Submission. The critics immediately billed the book as...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

What if the Worldwide Jesuit Conspiracy is REAL?

There are plenty of unbalanced Catholic commentators on the Jesuit papacy. Their conspiracy theories, not...

October 23, 2015

Why Did Hans Urs von Balthasar Remain Catholic?

If you think that Catholicism is in some special mess today, then you really have...

October 21, 2015

Against the Defense of Christendom

A Wall Street Journal piece by Bret Stephens, In Defense of Christendom, is unfortunately making...

October 14, 2015

Holy Fire & Brimstone! Archaeologists Unearth Sodom?

There are historically significant happenings you might be missing while you obsess about the fabulous...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

The Shadow Work of Destroying Death by Death

Work is killing you even when you're not working. Be cultured enough to give me...

September 11, 2015

The Waves of the Dead After 9/11

I do not feel competent to comment the 9 The events are both too near...

September 02, 2015

New Historical Mists Shower Auschwitz with Hope

By now you might be past your knee-jerk reactions to the "showers" (misters, to be...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

The Subjectivism of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Yesterday we placed the ancient philosophical analogue, not to be confused with an "equivalent," of...

July 29, 2015

The Mythical Origins of Science

One of the pillars of Enlightenment, scientific, and New Atheist (not to be confused with...

June 2015

June 05, 2015

Zizek: Straight Marriage is Daring When Ordained Transgression is the Norm!

After watching Linklater's Boyhood--a portrayal of divorce as boring, normal, quietly despairing, and not at...

June 01, 2015

How to Make the Rosary More Inclusive in 3 Easy Steps

One of the great blessings of the rosary is its repetitiveness. This repetitiveness fosters the...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Ireland & Legitimacy: An Ironic Correlation Between Clergy Abuse & Gay Marriage

They say that correlation does not imply causation. However, when you continually see a pattern develop...

May 11, 2015

Where in the Continent is the Heart of Europe?

Obsessively discussing the demise of Europe is one of the favorite preoccupations of those on...

May 08, 2015

Greatest Generation? Russia Is Right, VE Day Was No Simple American Victory

Tom Brokaw's great myth-building volume, The Great Generation, seeped into the American consciousness a couple...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Stanley Hauerwas Contra the Bad Idea of Religious Toleration

As Americans we are enjoined to religious tolerance as if it were the 11th commandment....

April 29, 2015

Before Marriage: Gays (As a Group) Were Morally Superior to Christians (As a Group)

Stanley Hauerwas is America's theological gadfly. Short is the list of people who have not...

April 25, 2015

Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

I found something truly unusual while doing research for my piece On the Polish Origins...

April 24, 2015

On the Polish Origins of the Concept of Genocide & Its Armenian Roots

The term genocide seems ancient. It is actually a clumsy Greek-Latin hybrid coined by a...

April 20, 2015

FBI Head Comey is Maliciously Wrong on Holocaust Facts about Poland

It's been said the victors write the history books. This should not be equated...

April 12, 2015

Scientifically Examining the Turin Shroud: Resurrection Sunday Deux

There are those who automatically shrilly say their faith doesn't hang upon The Shroud of...

April 10, 2015

Mein Kampf Against Hitler: Comparing von Hildebrand to Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was recognized as a hero of World War II Nazi-resistance with the posthumous...