Most people don't know that the Parable of the Good Samaritan is really about racial and religious prejudice. Read more

I’ll tell you what’s happened in Charlottesville this weekend. It is human beings revealing what lies within. It’s real simple and its been happening since Cain killed his brother Abel. It works like this: Human being is unhappy He doesn’t know why he’s unhappy Somebody must be at fault. He needs to blame somebody for his being unhappy It can’t be his fault because he’s convinced that he’s a good person So it must be somebody else’s fault So he gets together... Read more

The authenticity of the Shroud will never be proven in a completely watertight way, but with the accumulation of evidence it is increasingly difficult to deny. Read more

Over the last few years “rad trad” or “raddy traddy” was Catholic slang for the ultra traditionalist, Latin Mass, take no prisoners traditionalist. I like the rhyme, but I’m for standing this on its head. Let’s take “radical” and “tradition” and recognize something that is cool and constant in being a Catholic, and that is that if you are a Catholic you can be both establishment and rebellious at the same time. You can be a revolutionary and a fogey,... Read more

Satan is the Father of lies. Therefore it follows that one of his favorite tricks is to separate us from reality. He’s like that stage magician who uses distraction to keep you from seeing what is really going on. He pulls a trick to turn our attention away from reality. What is “reality”? Reality is what is. Reality is the way things are in the natural world. Reality is the way we were created. Reality is the destiny God has... Read more

One of the advantages of being a Catholic is that, if you go to Mass regularly, you will hear so much of Sacred Scripture being read. This is also one of the disadvantages. It is not a disadvantage because you hear Sacred Scripture, but because you hear it in small chunks. What is lacking in the experience of most Catholics is an overall view of the whole of Sacred Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. Compared to Bible Christians, most Catholics... Read more

Beneath it all Catholicism not only has the seven sacraments, she has a sacramental vision of reality. Read more

There are tares among the wheat. You needn't try to weed them out. Just wait for the judgment day. Then all things will be harvested and everything that is hidden will be revealed. Read more

The problem with this reform agenda is that most of it really has very little to do with the Catholic faith. Read more