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Standing on My Head
“A scene is often most clearly seen when it is seen upside down.” G.K.Chesterton
The Rise of the Post-Christian CryBaby Bully
With the rise of Christianity a new perspective entered human history: the triumph of the victim. Previously if you were a slave, if you were poor, if you were disabled, if you were strange, [...]
The Problem of Protestant Anti-Catholicism
I think it was Fulton Sheen who said something like "There are not a hundred Americans who hate Catholics, but there are thousands of Americans who hate what they think the Catholic Church is." [...]
Mission and Ministry
One of the Catholic buzzwords at the moment seems to be "Mission". So this recent quote is typical: "Synodality is essentially missionary and vice versa mission is always synodal." Apart from the incomprehensible English [...]
Confession and Counselling
The other day on social media a Catholic grumbled about his experience at confession. The priest launched into a long lecture which was a mixture of personal advice, psychobabble and pop theology. The penitent [...]
James’ Mother and American Messiahs
In today's gospel the mother of St James and St John cheekily asks Jesus for a couple of prime seats in his cabinet for her boys. He corrects her asking if they can share [...]
Horizontal or Vertical Religion?
I'm blogging from Boystown near Guadalajara Mexico --which is one of the charity boarding schools for poor kids founded by the American priest Ven. Al Schwartz. The school educates 2000 teen aged boys from [...]
