Dr. Taylor Marshall is a pretty amazing guy. He's a novelist, theologian, Bible scholar, online educator and amazing convert. In this post he corrects the idea that there is such a thing as Catholic Socialism Go here to read more.
Why does God allow good people to suffer?
When I lived in England I made a visit to a place in Somerset called the Cadbury Hill Fort. It is an ancient hilltop settlement which, in various times was used as a fort, castle or fortified village. Some historians believe it was the location of King Arthur's Camelot. When you visit it can be pretty [...]
I've been blogging here at Patheos for a good number of years now and I'm grateful to the Patheos team for hosting my blog and widening my audience. However, in the next week or so I will be moving my blog to my own website. This enables me to return to a more personal style and [...]
Excuse me for being critical of the USA, but it always happens after I return from Europe. But seriously, have you ever noticed how so much of American culture is like one big trip to Disneyland? Its like everybody is expected to be happy and healthy and smiling and successful all the time. 24-7 Now far [...]
Bl. John Henry Newman Collectors of long words should be happy with "latitudinarianism." This was an attitude which developed within Anglicanism in the seventeenth century and has become pretty much the status quo in the Church of England. From Wikipedia: Latitudinarians, or latitude men were initially a group of 17th-century English theologians – clerics and academics – [...]
The Holy Father wants to pull some of authority away from the Vatican and shift it back to the local level. Here's why that may not be a great idea for Catholicism.
When I was a child I was taught the Sunday School song, “Trust and Obey for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus but to Trust and Obey.” So some time ago this song comes back to me when I read the gospel of the healing of the centurion’s servant. A new understanding of [...]
Heresy is never totally wrong. Its just that it is never totally right.
I have to hand it to the nuns. Those sisters with rulers certainly got it into the heads of the young Catholics that missing Mass was a mortal sin. However, one of the troublesome things about hearing confessions is how many older Catholics seem to think this is the only sin, and they do not seem able or [...]