Next up to Bat – Pius XIII?
Why Pope Francis may be on the way to being a lame duck pope.
The Mutilation Generation
The Wood of the Suicides In Dante's Inferno, the violent are confined in the seventh circle. This circle has three rings: the violent against one's neighbor, the violent against one's self and the violent against God, nature and art. In the second ring the suicides are imprisoned in trees. They have lost their bodily form because [...]
Catholic Socialism. Whatzat?
Dr. Taylor Marshall is a pretty amazing guy. He's a novelist, theologian, Bible scholar, online educator and amazing convert. In this post he corrects the idea that there is such a thing as Catholic Socialism Go here to read more.
Sharing the Passion of Christ
Why does God allow good people to suffer?
Standing on My Head is On the Move
I've been blogging here at Patheos for a good number of years now and I'm grateful to the Patheos team for hosting my blog and widening my audience. However, in the next week or so I will be moving my blog to my own website. This enables me to return to a more personal style and [...]
Does Everybody Live Happily Ever After?
Excuse me for being critical of the USA, but it always happens after I return from Europe. But seriously, have you ever noticed how so much of American culture is like one big trip to Disneyland? Its like everybody is expected to be happy and healthy and smiling and successful all the time. 24-7 Now far [...]
The Latitude Attitude
Bl. John Henry Newman Collectors of long words should be happy with "latitudinarianism." This was an attitude which developed within Anglicanism in the seventeenth century and has become pretty much the status quo in the Church of England. From Wikipedia: Latitudinarians, or latitude men were initially a group of 17th-century English theologians – clerics and academics – [...]
Is Pope Francis Selling the Family Silver?
The Holy Father wants to pull some of authority away from the Vatican and shift it back to the local level. Here's why that may not be a great idea for Catholicism.
Trust and Obey = Faith
When I was a child I was taught the Sunday School song, “Trust and Obey for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus but to Trust and Obey.” So some time ago this song comes back to me when I read the gospel of the healing of the centurion’s servant. A new understanding of [...]
Augustine and the Heretics
Heresy is never totally wrong. Its just that it is never totally right.