…(whom I had the pleasure of meeting while in Dublin) writes about the recent depressing news from Ireland: I lived in Dublin till 2001, and again from 2006 to 2008, and it was blatantly apparent on my return there that whatever hope there is for the Church in Ireland lies with the like of Dublin’s Archbishop Martin. Between 1992 and 2002 the Church was hit by scandal after scandal, with early stories of what most Irish people would probably now... Read more

…the taxonomies provided here are disturbingly accurate. I like to think of myself as 50 Degree Short Pants Guy. Read more

Lord hear our prayer! Read more

Lord hear our prayer! Read more

So act fast to oppose Obama’s Embryonic Stem Cell plan. Read more

So act fast to oppose Obama’s Embryonic Stem Cell plan. Read more

Any article with a title that clever is worth reading. Read more

Any article with a title that clever is worth reading. Read more

A reader writes: I was wondering what your take is / if you have written anything on the topics of the “Synoptic Problem” (I know you’ve written about the theory of a community writing the Gospel of John) and/or the issues surrounding the use of the majority versus minority texts of Greek manuscripts for establishing what is the “authentic” Bible. The closest I’ve come to writing about the synoptic problem was when I co-authored with Scott Hahn a study of... Read more

A reader writes: I was wondering what your take is / if you have written anything on the topics of the “Synoptic Problem” (I know you’ve written about the theory of a community writing the Gospel of John) and/or the issues surrounding the use of the majority versus minority texts of Greek manuscripts for establishing what is the “authentic” Bible. The closest I’ve come to writing about the synoptic problem was when I co-authored with Scott Hahn a study of... Read more