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January 2014

January 20, 2014
When I was a high school chaplain I had a set of parents fix an...
January 16, 2014
How is the gospel best spread? By talking about how the faith has changed you....
January 13, 2014
One of the sweet things about being a priest is being able to minister at...
January 13, 2014
If any off the cuff remark is ever destined to haunt the undisciplined public figure...
January 13, 2014
Sorry I have been away from the blog for a few days. Things have been...
January 05, 2014
Where did the Magi come from? The usual answer is from Persia. They are identified...
January 05, 2014
Today on the way home from Mass I stopped at Krispy Kreme for a dozen...
January 04, 2014
Here is a treat for you: a recording from the BBC of T.S.Eliot reading his...
January 04, 2014
Joseph Pearce writes here on the nightmare of nihilism and the false promise of progressivism....
January 04, 2014
The Obamastate has told the Little Sisters of the Poor that they should just go...
January 04, 2014
There is a double yearning in me, and I suspect it is pretty much universal,...
January 03, 2014
Father Roger was just over five foot tall. A very spiritual priest, he was much...
January 02, 2014
Why are modern men such layabouts? It's simple. When the family declines. Men decline. Rod...
January 01, 2014
  This amusing article by John Niven in the Daily Telegraph suggests not to bother with...
January 01, 2014
As we enter the new year remember the little way. Here's my latest article for...

December 2013

December 31, 2013
I mentioned here a delightful new book by Inklings scholar Devin Brown. Devin is the...
December 31, 2013
Kathryn Lopez writes here about the Person of the Year behind the Person of the...
December 31, 2013
John Zmirak writes forcefully here about the question of religious liberty and the Catholic faith....
December 31, 2013
Soon after I converted to the Catholic faith a dear old Dominican sister gave me...
December 30, 2013
In a sleepless moment the other night I found myself discovering the world of Catholic...
December 22, 2013
Reading Paul Elie's excellent quadruple biography of Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy and Dorothy...
December 21, 2013
In my recent post admiring and recommending Ralph Martin's book The Urgency of the New...
December 18, 2013
There's an old joke about the Protestant New Testament scholar Rudolph Bultmann: Q: Dr Bultmann,...
December 17, 2013
I've never had that much time for Prince Charles. He always seemed to me to...
December 17, 2013
There is a theme coming through Pope Francis' pontificate which is at once attractive and...
December 09, 2013
It has been such a crazy busy day that it's now 8pm and I'm just...
December 06, 2013
John Allen's book The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian...
December 05, 2013
You are created in God's image right? God is omnipotent right? So if you're created...
December 05, 2013
I'm not really that fond of the song Make Me a Channel of Your Peace....
December 05, 2013
This week the politics and power people continued to read the Catholic Church in terms...
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