I thought it would be good to talk a bit about her. Here’s a bit from my upcoming book about the Creed. Skepticism about the Virgin Birth Curiously, the Virgin Birth often seems to provoke more doubt than the Resurrection does. Not just non-Christians, but even many believers have difficulties with it while having no trouble believing Jesus rose from the dead. This doubt can be roughly divided into “weak” and “ardent” skepticism. The weak type of doubt can be... Read more
They write: I’m thinking of actually converting to orthodox. My dad was. I’ve been reading the orthodox way and Frederica Matthews-Green, and feel called, like a vocation. It came down to me walking with two friends, one catholic and one orthodox. We saw a prostitute (not unusual for 14th Street at night). My catholic buddy wanted to cross the street. My ortho pal said we should pray for her. I told another ortho friend I’ve been going to Byz DL.... Read more
These guys never fail to be thoughtful. From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so it will lose many of her social privileges (…) And so it seems certain to... Read more
The most astonishingly pitch-perfect mashup by a fan ever made. Read more
Steven and I have had a long-running gag “fight” going on about super-hero movies vs. totes adorbs little animals like these: or these: I go for the hearts and flowers because I care so much and have a soul as big as all outdoors. He defends supers with sophistry. I am plainly right. He is plainly wrong. But seriously, I’m a fan of the MCU and think Stan Lee and Co. have given us a… well, a marvelous gift in... Read more
She’s a far better disciple of Jesus than I am. Read more
Here’s a piece I just published with St. Anthony Messenger: Recently, Al Gore remarked, “I’m a Protestant, but I’ll tell you, because of Pope Francis, I really could become a Catholic.” His reason was not far to seek: “Now I was taught in my church that the purpose of life is to glorify God and if we are heaping contempt on God’s creation, then we’re not living up to the duty that God is calling us to. And so this... Read more
There are, in fact, a number of passages in the Old Testament which could be seen as foreshadows of the Resurrection. For instance, the archetypal Third Day in the Creation narrative of Genesis tells us: And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that... Read more
The Resurrection is a work of God the Blessed Trinity. All three Persons of the Godhead are involved and, as in all things, all three Persons operate in perfect harmony to accomplish it. The Father “raised up” Christ his Son (Acts 2:24, 32). The Son declares, “I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and... Read more
Sonnet for Easter We are not damned for, but by, our sin. It was not God, but Judas, in pride, who twisted the straight rope, making his skin proof against mercy, bottling inside it a god of self who dealt out the curse. Peter, thrice the traitor Judas had been, sick unto death with cowardice and nursed with the gall of shame, would not take God’s pen and strike his own name from the Book of Life. Christ risen owed... Read more
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