My article for Aleteia this week is a profile of Marcus Grodi and the Coming Home Network Marcus Grodi’s pun for life could be “Done Roman” because when he was received into the Roman Catholic Church the former Protestant pastor had found his spiritual home and was finally “done roamin’.” Grodi was brought up in a [...]
OK. I know it sounds dumb, but I've always wanted to be a nun. You know what I mean? So when that Jenner guy decided to be a girl I says to myself, "What the heck! Go for it man!" Then when they made him "Woman of the Year" I just about choked on my stogie. [...]
My article for Imaginative Conservative this week is an essay on the tale of two orphans: Huck Finn an Pip from Dickens' Great Expectations Both Pip and Huck are faced with similar difficulties. Pip is apprenticed to a blacksmith and dominated by his harpy of a sister, while Huck is trapped in the stifling atmosphere of Widow [...]
After the synod, this from Belgian bishop Lucas Van Loony. “If this synod were the Church, I would say that it’s the end of judging people, the end of a Church that passes judgment on all the situations,” said Belgian Bishop Lucas Van Looy. “It’s a Church that welcomes, a Church that accompanies, a Church that [...]
Thomas D Williams gives an update here on the synod as the final report is about to be released. He doesn't have much time for Jesuit priest Thomas Reese Though the synod was convened to discuss the many issues facing Christian families in the world today, Reese and his cohort had a considerably more narrow focus: [...]
Far be it from me to pontificate about the vexed questions the synod fathers are debating, but I have been pondering a few of the questions and have to admit to being stumped. The question is this: "Should divorced and remarried Catholics and publicly active homosexuals be admitted to communion?" The discipline of the church says, [...]
Anthony of Egypt I have not been following the synod proceedings much because as far as I can make out most of the press about it is gossip, and like most gossip it is biased, ignorant and designed to stir up conflict, stoke the flames of discontent, apportion blame without ascertaining facts and being [...]
The attack on hypocrites in religion typically focusses on the uptight, self righteous conservative Catholic who judges others while they themselves are guilty of the same sin. You know the schtick: "Mildred is always saying what terrible sinners young people are for sleeping around, but it turns out she's been having sex with her neighbor's husband!" or [...]
If you follow this blog regularly you'll realize I've been out of circulation for over a week. I've been on vacation with two of my children and took a break from all that writing. But I didn't take a break from thinking things through. I've been thinking about that synod in Rome. I've been thinking about [...]
Cardinal Marx Some observers of the Synod on the Family taking place in Rome predict that if the Liberal German Cardinals don't get their way that they will do what they want anyway. Fast emerging as one of the sharpest Vatican reporters, Edward Pentin noted here that the German cardinals plan to publish their [...]