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May 2015

May 05, 2015

Is Catholic Anglican Ecumenism Over?

My latest essay for CRUX takes a new slant on the possibilities facing Anglican Roman...

May 05, 2015

Is Mary the Catholic Boy’s Pin Up?

About fifteen years ago I co-authored a dialogue book with Evangelical journalist John Martin. The...

May 05, 2015

Infallible Me…

Non Catholic Christians often grumble about the Catholic doctrine of papal infallibility, but they miss...

May 05, 2015

Anti Catholic Spies Everywhere

As research for an exciting project I'm reading .The Watchers: A Secret History of the...

May 02, 2015

Blind Benjamin Franklin

This week's article at Imaginative Conservative offers a critique of Benjamin Franklin's rationalism Like most...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

The Challenge of Chastity

One of my wisecracks is, "I used to be chaste, but she caught me." Sorry....

April 30, 2015

We Are All to Blame for the Marriage Meltdown

In the wake of the recent resounding thumbs up to same sex marriage in Ireland,...

April 30, 2015

POTUS Candidates Reveal Two Catholic Churches

My article for Aleteia this week gives a sketch of the various Catholics who are,...

April 29, 2015

Screaming Kids and Urban Thugs

When the kids were little I remember Mrs Longenecker telling me that she was in...

April 29, 2015

Why Same Sex Marriage Is Impossible for Catholics

My article this week at the National Catholic Register explains the Catholic reasons why same sex marriage...

April 28, 2015

Sixteen Signs of True Authority Every Catholic Should Learn

When faced with the multiplicity of religions its easy to think that they are all...

April 28, 2015

Income Inequality is Not the Real Problem

A reader has asked me why I don't write more on subjects like the environment...

April 27, 2015

Why Hillary Will Win

Readers may have picked up that I am not particularly delighted by the prospect of...

April 27, 2015

The Quick C.S.Lewis List

Someone once asked my why I went to live in England for twenty five years...

April 27, 2015

Peter and the Empty Promises of Progressives

Today's Mass readings include the story from the Acts of the Apostles chapter 10 in...

April 25, 2015

Christian Bakers Fined $135,000

The Klein family in Oregon have already had their family business destroyed by the State...

April 25, 2015

How Fantasy Films Kill Fantasy

My article this week at Imaginative Conservative explains how fantasy films stifle the imagination and...

April 24, 2015

How Feminism Kills Women

Feminism kills women. Here's how: The logic isn't too difficult: 1. Feminists support unrestricted abortion 2....

April 24, 2015

Hillary Clinton is Making Richard Nixon Look Like Snow White

Geesh! the Bill and Hillary Corruption show opens with another show stopper. New York Times...

April 24, 2015

Francis and Humility

My article for Aleteia this week focusses on the humble actions of Pope Francis and...

April 23, 2015

Catholics Worship Dagon the Fish God? Paganism and Propaganda…

I am featuring links to some of my archived articles through the blog and will...

April 23, 2015

What If the English Reformation Never Happened?

No time to blog today, but I have had time to skim this excellent article...

April 22, 2015

Ten Things Every Catholic Should Know About Confession

I'm struck by how few Catholics take advantage of the sacrament of confession, and I wonder...

April 21, 2015

The Healing Power of the Eucharist

One of the difficulties I find in being a pastor is how little we really...

April 21, 2015

Divorce and Remarriage? I Have No Opinion

Some time ago I was meeting with a Catholic woman who had been divorced and...

April 21, 2015

Arrogance, Ignorance and the Unforgivable Sin

Don't mistake arrogance for pride. Sure, arrogance is nauseating, and when it's not nauseating it's...

April 20, 2015

To Help the Widows and the Fatherless…

You may have heard about the Rogans, a traditional Catholic family who lost their Dad...

April 20, 2015

Left Wing Writer Wants to Limit Freedom of Speech

Those of us who observe and criticize ideologies of all kinds observe that ideologues invariably...

April 20, 2015

Reagan Shooter’s Weird Link With the Bush Clan

Do you remember John Hinckley--the guy who shot Ronald Reagan? This article explains how he...

April 20, 2015

Is Religious Enquiry Reasonable?

Benjamin Franklin wrote, "The way to see by faith is to close the eye of...

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