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December 2014

December 04, 2014

Speaking of “the Church”

A friend commenting on an article I'd commended — Rebecca Hamilton's The Murder of Innocents is...

November 2014

November 07, 2014

The Convert’s Ignorance

Or, as the article is actually titled, The Convert's Unnecessary Worries. Writing on the Catholic...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Traditionalists On Francis

Various widely-reading friends have sent me lots of links to traditionalist Catholic articles on Pope Francis, which...

October 29, 2014

The Church’s Failure With the Unmarried

Appearing today on Aleteia, the first of my weekly columns for them: Single and Catholic. It begins:...

October 19, 2014

Medieval Virginity, Modern Mayhem

From the learned Father John Hunwicke, one of those learned people who turn his learning to insight, the...

October 18, 2014

Cardinal Kasper’s Revealing Response

A respondent to Cardinal Kasper meets an untamed journalist sends a good question from Matthew...

October 17, 2014

Cardinal Kasper Meets an Untamed Journalist

In Kasper's Bad Excuse, I quoted the German website Kath.net's report on Cardinal Kasper's implausible...

October 17, 2014

Kasper’s Bad Excuse

A friend sends his translation of the most important paragraph from the German Kath.net's report...

October 13, 2014

Doctrine & Discipline

Writing on the Catholic World Report site in response to the eminent and irreplaceable canonist...

October 02, 2014

Kasper’s Apprently Intentional Ambiguities

In his writings and talk on marriage, Cardinal Walter Kasper remains ambiguous but, or rather therefore,...