Buddhist monks? Were there any Catholic monks on show? Conservative pundits are all worked up about the super duper climate change slide show on the facade of St Peter's yesterday. Life Site News here goes all conspiratorial about the connections of the groups that funded the show and how it was all a left wing, [...]
The solution to the Syrian refugee problem is simple. It goes like this: First we have to admit that we can't take everyone. Therefore there has to be a selection process. Quite sensibly we should acknowledge that there might be a problem of terrorists sneaking in as refugees and we want to weed them out. Here's [...]
Why is Donald Trump so popular? Because we elect the leaders who are like us. We get who we deserve. Far from being a renegade, a wild card or an outsider, Donald Trump is the ultimate twenty first century American. He typifies America. He is America. He can clothe himself in the flag he is so [...]
David Gustafson was a classmate of mind at Bob Jones University. We met again after many years and after a long running discussion via email about things Catholic and Protestant we wrote a book together called Mary-A Catholic Evangelical Debate. The book is now out of print and I'm working to make it available again. In the [...]
My latest blog at National Catholic Register is Indiana Jones and Finding Mercy The gospel says “Seek and you will find” and one of the ways of seeking is to go on a treasure hunt. This is how I’ve come to regard the ancient Catholic tradition of going on pilgrimage. You set out from home to [...]
Here is a seasonal piece from Imaginative Conservative on how St Nicholas became Santa Claus How did a fourth century heretic slapping bishop from Southern Turkey wind up being a fat, Coca-Cola-swigging American elf? St. Nicholas was born into a wealthy Christian family in the third century. His parents died in a plague, and having inherited [...]
The Prophet Mohammad This article gives some statistics about the atmosphere of hate in the Muslim world, and it illustrates the difficulty we face in disentangling the Islamic religion from Islamic culture. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is graciously optimistic about the religion of Islam, but in the inter faith section it doesn't speak [...]
It's easy in a secular, consumerist society to believe that all religions are really pretty much the same. You pays your money and you makes your choice. People see the different customs of the different religions, but put them on one side and they see the similarities. Hey, in the dark time of the year Christian [...]
President Obama? This article makes specific what we have known for some time: that Hillary Clinton and President Obama refuse to use the term "Islam" when referring to jihadist attacks. Do they have their head in the sand? Their reasons are that they don't want to help demonize all Muslims for the extremist [...]
One of the big problems in the strong emotions about Islamic violence is that we in the "Christian" West simply don't know very much about the Islamic religion. No matter what you feel about Islam, it is worth stopping for a moment to learn more about it. If you want to read more than this short [...]