Women Priests? Deacon Kandra features a video of the closing liturgy of the women's ordination conference that just concluded in Philadelphia. Go here if you would like a glimpse of their liturgical style. I should warn those who are enthusiastic about the extraordinary form of the Mass that they will probably be disappointed. While Acts [...]
Politics is not my strong suit, but I've been musing over this question and have come up with some ideas.
For Christianity to be both dogmatic and relevant it must have an infallible interpreter My latest blog post over at National Catholic Register discusses this idea briefly. Here’s the problem: if Christianity teaches unchanging truth how does it adapt to different cultures and different ages? If it does not adapt it ceases to be relevant. If [...]
Priest with Beretta? Catch a breath. The Mainstream media has reported here on Pope Francis in Cuba and the reporter has used the correct terminology! The headline actually says that the Pope "celebrated" Mass. Yes. You heard correctly. The reporter used the correct terms. He said the Pope "celebrated" Mass. They did not say [...]
Never forget that verse from the gospel, "Woe to you when all men speak well of you." For the first two years of his papacy Pope Francis seemed therefore to bringing woe onto himself. Everyone was speaking well of him. This CNN article points out how things are changing. Pope Francis is getting schtick from both [...]
Pope Francis and Raul Castro My opinion article at the National Catholic Register reflects on the fact that the Pope is visiting a country where, for fifty years the regime has oppressed the Catholic Church. What is often overlooked is that America also has a sad history of anti-Catholics and that the spirit [...]
Are tattoos taboo? If so why? Maybe because they lead to vanity and marring the image of God in which we are created. My essay for Imaginative Conservative this week ponders the issue with reference to Flannery O'Connor's story Parker's Back. O.E. Parker is one of Flannery O’Connor’s crazy misfits. A tough dropout who was captivated by [...]
My latest article for National Catholic Register ponders the sort of Catholic Church Pope Francis will find. I was born and raised in the U.S., but I was never an American Catholic. Brought up in an evangelical-Protestant, fundamentalist home, I went to England after college and became an Anglican priest. Eventually, we were received into full [...]
My article for Aleteia this week disses secular media's obsession with viewing everything as a right wing-left wing conflict. They loved to portray Pope Benedict as a stern right wing arch conservative neo Nazi. Now they love to portray Pope Francis as a kind, loving and gentle socialist. Both are crazy wrong The simple fact of [...]
Virtually all commentators have declared Carly Fiorina the winner of last night's debate between Republican candidates. The lady is poised, articulate, passionate and well informed. Her high points were her fiery denunciation of Planned Parenthood in which she called out Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama--daring them to watch the videos published by the Center for Medical [...]