Why am I a Catholic? It’s all about authority. If you are looking for an authority to help decide the crucial questions what criteria would you set for that authority? There are fourteen things [...]

I was brought up in an independent Bible church in the USA, so my first visit to a Catholic church was a big culture shock, and it confirmed everything I was told about Catholics. [...]

As a parish priest not a month goes by that I don’t help very ordinary people face very extraordinary moral decisions. The “sexual revolution” has turned out to be not simply an era of [...]

In Shakespeare it is the fool who says the wisest things. He is the one who can say anything to the king and get away with it--as long as he makes the king laugh. [...]

Did that headline getcha? What I mean is that I do not believe God exists in the way that I exist, or in the way that my mother exists or that tree or flower [...]

A new study released this week by a team of Italian scientists has given further evidence for the Shroud of Turin’s authenticity. This article from the Daily Telegraph reports a new approach to shroud studies. The [...]