What's the point of dialogue? Read more

Nobody really likes tax collectors, but did you know why they were so despised in Jesus' time? Read more

This week we have an American bishop and Archbishop writing articles touching on the question of chastity. In this article for London’s Catholic Herald Archbishop Chaput comments that faithful Christians are the West’s “new dissidents.” In the midst of writing about the openly anti-Catholic attack on federal judge nominee Amy Coney Barrett by Dianne Feinstein, Archbishop Chaput notes that the battleground is human sexuality. the episode with Amy Barrett is part of a new and much wider “repressive turn” among... Read more

Both sides came out guns a-blazin' about Fr. James Martin's rather slight and sentimental book about being friendly to gay people. Read more

St. Joseph of Cupertino was a misfit mystic. His life of asceticism was so extreme that some people would say he had an eating disorder, that he was emotionally or mentally ill. Read more

Why Pope Francis may be on the way to being a lame duck pope. Read more

In Dante’s Inferno, the violent are confined in the seventh circle. This circle has three rings: the violent against one’s neighbor, the violent against one’s self and the violent against God, nature and art. In the second ring the suicides are imprisoned in trees. They have lost their bodily form because they destroyed their body through suicide. In other words, for whatever sad reasons, they hated themselves and their lives and their bodies so much that they thought it better to destroy... Read more

Why does God allow good people to suffer? Read more