[see book and purchase information] *** The following are a collection of short posts originally posted on my blog years ago (in one case before I had a blog), or on Facebook (since 2011). Each italicized (and green-colored) title is a different post, and the original date is included. Words of others will be in blue. ***** Prayer for Catholic Writers and Teachers (5-5-93) * St. Francis de Sales, valiant defender of the faith, we beseech your intercession on behalf... Read more
Dr. Lydia McGrew is a traditional Anglican philosopher. I am very fond of her and her work. I posted a little quotation from St. John Henry Newman (as an Anglican) about prayer for the dead and tagged her on Facebook. She showed up and we got into a great discussion (always the case with her). Her words will be in blue. ***** Anglican Newman on St. Paul’s Prayer for the Dead (Onesiphorus) [W]hat does St Paul mean when he says... Read more
* Contraception * It was the Catholic Church’s firm stand against contraception and abortion which finally made me decide to become a Catholic . . . As the Romans treated eating as an end in itself, making themselves sick in a vomitorium so as to enable them to return to the table and stuff themselves with more delicacies, so people now end up in a sort of sexual vomitorium. The Church’s stand is absolutely correct. It is to its eternal... Read more
*** I want you and your adherents to know that I am not . . . so faint-hearted as to be disturbed by your insults. But the fact that you are so disparaging, derogatory, and utterly contemptuous towards my Discussion argues that it is not as contemptible as you make out. If it did not bear down on you, your pen would not have produced such outrageous insults to its author. [Y]ou are so impudent in your insults . . . so... Read more
[link for more information on the book, including purchase options] *** My book is entitled The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips & Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton (Dec. 2009): a collection of quotations. I was interviewed on 3 March 2010 for the show The Catholics Next Door, hosted by Greg and Jennifer Willits, which aired on The Catholic Channel (Sirius Satellite Channel 159), from 2008-2012. I tried to find my interview in their archive of the radio... Read more
Who will the Trump-obsessed Democrats hate now? I agree with Rush Limbaugh: I think they will switch to hating all conservatives (Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables”). In fact they have already begun. We’re their desperately needed object of hatred: one big ugly mass of despised wicked “Trump voters” now twisted into the ridiculous caricature that they have made of President Trump for four years: a bunch of racists, sexists, anti-Mexican bigots and homophobes; anti-science troglodytes, etc. * Keep it up, liberals. Keep... Read more
I recently observed: Our beloved atheist critics are constantly informing us lowly, ignorant Christians that atheism itself is, alas, not a formulated position, but only the absence of a position (belief in God). It’s not a worldview, etc. I wish I had a dime for every time I’ve heard that. It’s not true, but we hear it all the time. (2-2-21) Lo and behold, on the very next day, Dr. Richard C. Miller, put up on the notorious Debunking Christianity website (which just banned me again for merely... Read more
Atheist anti-theist Jonathan M. S. Pearce is the main writer on the blog, A Tippling Philosopher. His “About” page states: “Pearce is a philosopher, author, blogger, public speaker and teacher from Hampshire in the UK. He specialises in philosophy of religion, but likes to turn his hand to science, psychology, politics and anything involved in investigating reality.” ***** I am replying to Jonathan’s paper, “Paul Justifies Lying” (2-11-21). His words will be in blue. In writing my forthcoming book on the Resurrection of Jesus, it has... Read more
“The Gospel According to Saint Luke” was written by atheist Vexen Crabtree in 2016. I will examine his “anti-biblical” arguments to see if they can withstand criticism. Vexen’s words will be in blue. ***** It might be that the character of Luke was based on an old Roman pagan story about the healing God, Lykos, from Greek culture, and hence why the text was given the name Luke. Right-o! I can relate to this, I guess. My name is David, which is based on a King (David), from... Read more
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Thomas Howard Quotations
Biographical Brief * The late Thomas Howard was one of the most insightful and eloquent Catholic authors of our time, and (in my humble opinion) the stylistic successor to C. S. Lewis. Like Lewis, he was an English professor, at Gordon College and St. John’s Seminary (both in Massachusetts). He was raised in a solidly evangelical family, and was the brother of the well-known missionary and writer Elisabeth Elliot. After becoming interested in a more liturgical style of worship at... Read more