“Everybody loved Father Brian” or “Why VOTF is Overlooking Some Important Problems with the Laity”

Excellent. A blow struck for subsidiarity Theological Buzzword Significant Learning Opportunity Moment: Catholic doctrine, as we should all know by now, has an amazing genius for taking really nifty, common sense insights and wrapping them up in forbidding, Latinate terminology that confuses people for centuries. “Merit” is one such term (see my discussion of it [...]

Jonah Goldberg is always funny. But he’s really funny when he writes about Al Gore

Kairos’ interesting prescription for the Situation

Boy! Those Saudis look better and better every day. A fetching combination of the worst in First and Third World cultures.

Victims of Stockholm Syndrome Don’t Merely Identify with their Kidnappers they also fight against their rescuers. And funniest of all, they think they are being “open-minded”. VOTF: Voice of the Fuddled

I’m not from a Reformed background And so many things that seem immensely compelling to Reformed people as arguments for or against the Catholic faith simply have no impact on me or else strike me as gigantically inconsequential. Perhaps pre-eminent among these arguments is the issue which a certain species of Protestant seems to think [...]

Some advice for the liturgical musician in your life

Cheeky Brits

A good piece on the Narcotic of Secrecy

A jolting surprise for Fortress Catholics Over at HMS Blog I’m holding forth on the weirdness of monotheists claiming that Muslims or whoever worship “another god” when the reality is, there is no other God. There’s just the One God. He’s it. He’s all. We can have wrong or incomplete ideas about him as Muslims [...]

The historic pattern One of the periodic patterns of the Church is that decapitation tends to bring out lay gifts. In the early Church, decapitation tended to be furnished by the pagan authorities, who knew perfectly well that the Faith is inherently hierarchical and so tended to go after bishops and priests. Then, lay people [...]