Here’s my latest article published in National Catholic Register. It’s about Bob Jones University, racism and anti-Catholicism. Read more

Ending the first part of his catechesis on the Apostles, the Holy Father summarizes and expands further on the importance of the Apostolic ministry. The Apostles were handed the authority to teach the truth, forgive sins and overcome evil which had God had given to the Son, and Jesus says, “As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.” St. Irenaeus of Lyon affirms the necessity of Apostolic Succession as a guarantee of truth: “For it is a... Read more

Advent is a time of prophecies–looking back and looking forward at the same time. What has the past given us and how does it point to the future? Others have said it before, but I believe Benedict XVI chose his name because of the great St Benedict–not really because of any of his fifteen Benedictine predecessors. The time of St Benedict was a time of social decay, financial collapse, moral decline and eventual anarchy. St Benedict retreated to the hills... Read more

Here’s an interesting article about a woman who goes to Planned Parenthood clinics posing as a thirteen year old girl asking for an abortion. When she says the father is thirty one years old the PP employee tells her to lie, and because Indiana mandates parental consent for underage girls to have an abortion, the abortionist suggests the girl goes to Illinois where she can get an abortion without parental consent. If America’s biggest abortion mill breaks the law in this... Read more

“They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the LORD in ceremonially clean vessels.” Isaiah 66:20 The grain offering according to the Old Covenant was one of the forms of sin offering, and was made for the forgiveness of sins, and what is the grain offering, but the offering of bread, and what is the bread of life but the manna from heaven, and who is the manna from heaven but Christ our... Read more

The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster has written an article about the rising anti-religious feeling and especially anti-Catholic feeling in secular Britain. Read about it here. Read more

Check out this article from the UK’s Daily Telegraph. Late term abortions in Britain (even up to 24 weeks and later) are being carried out on children with deformities no worse than a club foot or a cleft palate. This is bad enough, but it has emerged that the government and department of health have been suppressing the statistics on these abortions, and when challenged over the secrecy, have taken the protesters to court and used heavy handed legal tactics designed... Read more

The major problem in the church today is when Christians exchange the Divine and supernatural economy of redemption for an attempt to change the world. Many Catholics have forgotten that the Church is established for the forgiveness of sins and the proclamation of the gospel, and believe instead that the Church is here to make the world a better place, and that this needs to be accomplished by all sorts of educational, social welfare, political and even revolutionary activities. This... Read more

Without Mary we would not have Jesus, so how can we expect to have Jesus without Mary? Read more

Watched Emma the other evening. Somehow it doesn’t compare with Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility. I think it comes down to the script and direction.  Emma Thompson’s script and Ang Lee’s direction in Sense and Sensibility somehow retained the seriousness, depth and beauty of Austen’s original. The film version of Emma just didn’t come up to the same standard. It was entertaining enough, but we didn’t see the deeper emotions, the more subtle relationships and affection between the characters.  It’s not a bad... Read more