Have you noticed how mainstream Christianity has stepped away from any form of militancy? When is the last time you sang Onward Christian Soldiers or Fight the Good Fight With All Your Might? Those hymns have been quietly removed from the hymnbooks by the woke editors. Maybe they are worried folks might become Christian jihadists and [...]
I have been working on a cycle of poems on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. Here is the poem for Pentecost. Pentecost He was an unpredictable prophet, but prophets are like that—first thundering then all tender and kind. They kept wondering about the contradictions: a king yet a criminal, a wise man but a [...]
I had a request yesterday to be interviewed by some folks for a podcast they do discussing big questions. She said she was an Evangelical Protestant. The other two interviewers were to be a "religious agnostic" and an atheist. They wanted to ask why I am Catholic. The best answer if that the Catholic Church is [...]
Have you ever seen a UFO? I did when I was a boy and this podcast of mine tells the story of how my sister and her husband saw one. Recently there has been a new rash of UFO sightings and with them the usual speculation about aliens and life forms from other planets. The mistake [...]
"Great and Main" is an exciting new provider of Catholic content. They have asked me to teach an onlinr course during June on the spiritual battle. This will cover some of the content in my book Immortal Combat and introduce folks to the content of my new book, Beheading Hydra. One of the silver linings of the COVID [...]
I saw something on social media the other day attacking "homophobes, biphobes, transphobes and interphobes" I can only assume this refers to people who are afraid of homosexuality, bi-sexuality, transgenderism and I'm not sure what and "inter" might be. Intersex? I don't know, but I do know that I am afraid. I'm not afraid of homosexual [...]
With the open rebellion of the German Catholics over the issue of blessing same sex unions, and plenty of other Catholics who sympathize, is the Catholic Church on the verge of formal schism? I don't think so--and here's why: For a formal schism to take place the dissenters have to have enough guts to declare the [...]
I have worked with the good folks at Angelico Press to bring to an English speaking audience a most remarkable book. Stronger Than Steel is a collection of letters from (mostly) French soldiers fighting in World War I. They were sent to the Mother Superior of the Carmelite convent in Lisieux and recount the marvels and [...]
I've pondered for some time on the psychology of tattoos. Why do people feel they must go through a certain amount of real pain to make permanent changes to their bodies? What is it with tattoos? I'm not sure I know the answer, but I think it is not disconnected with the current phenomenon of gender [...]
When I lived in England I discovered that one of the differences between US and UK was the approach to advertising. In America if they want to sell you something they re-brand and slap the word "New" on their product. They don't even have to say "New and Improved" because if it's new it must have been improved [...]