So fellow Patheosi Frank Weathers interviews my pal Rod Bennett on Forming Intentional Disciples (a project spearheaded by my other near and dear friend Sherry Weddell).  What’s not to love? What?  What do you mean you’ve not read Forming Intentional Disciples and put your shoulder to the wheel behind this hugely important mission?  Here, let [...]

So the other day, Bp. Finn made one of those announcements that made me go, “Wait. This is news? Didn’t this happen years ago?” Namely, he declared that the National Catholic Reporter isn’t Catholic. Mkay. Perfectly obvious, of course. And the Reporter’s reaction of an upraised middle finger to the bishop was perfectly predictable too. [...]

…is guilty and inspired as he confronts the fact that we live in a post-Christian culture and that this calls us to prudence and discipleship. I am greatly heartened by posts like this, in which the author treats with reality and does so in light of the gospel.  I think in many ways the loss on [...]

The Irenist writes True Truth in my comboxes: Very few Christians of any denomination in the contemporary West take their faith very seriously, or know very much about it.  This leads Catholics, e.g., to vote, contracept, divorce, etc., in much the way that any other Americans would:  there is *nothing* “countercultural” about most contemporary Catholicism [...]