Join me, Steve Wood and Johnette Benkovic for a great Divine Mercy Conference this coming weekend at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville, SC Combining with the church’s emphasis on the family, this conference will outline how the Divine Mercy devotion helps us through family and personal crises. Saturday April 11 is the day conference with two talks by Johnette and one by myself and Steve Wood. Sunday afternoon at three is our Divine Mercy Devotional event with... Read more

One of Catholicism’s greatest contributions is the great artists it has produced. I have written elsewhere about how the deeply incarnation and sacramental vision of Catholicism helps to inspire art that works at a deeper level than anything the world (and non Catholic Christians) can produce. One of the best examples of this is the comparison between Tolkien and Lewis. J.R.R.Tolkien wove his Catholicism into The Lord of the Rings at the deepest of levels. Not content to write a quasi-allegory like... Read more

A pizzeria owner in small town America is hounded into hiding with death threats, computer assault, pornography violence and arson threats. No conversation. No discussion. Just raw bullying. Rod Dreher has an excellent conversation here with a law professor who is pessimistic about religious freedom in the USA after the events this week in Indiana. What is most shocking about this interview is that the professor spoke to Dreher on the condition that his name and university not be divulged.... Read more

I have to admit, I don’t watch TV and I was living in England when Touched by an Angel was a hit, so I didn’t really know who Roma Downey was. I’ve since been told that she’s a pretty famous TV star and with her husband Mark Burnett a big Hollywood power broker. So I was pleased to have the chance to chat with her on the phone for a half hour about their new TV series A.D. The Bible Continues.  My article... Read more

Ironic that a Mom and Pop pizza parlor on Main Street USA becomes the center of a media firestorm over religious freedom. The Christian owners of Memories Pizza have been drawn into the firefight because of their sincerely held beliefs. They’ve had death threats and had to close down. Who would have thought it: in Pizza Pie America–in the vast and ordinary homeland of Middle America. This is the world of pizza parties on Friday nights, high school football, girl... Read more

Take a moment sometime and read the progressive press and study their lies. Here are twelve techniques they use. See if you can spot them. 1. They Play the Victim – The devil always plays the victim. Poor devil and his angels. They were cast out of heaven. Boo hoo. It was all a misunderstanding don’t you know? How could God have been so mean, so judgmental, so unkind? 2. They Mask Their Rage with “Sadness” –  Liberals are always “deeply concerned” and “deeply saddened” and... Read more

What troubles me most about the hysteria surrounding the recent religious freedom legislation in Indiana is the amount of ignorance about the issue. Are Americans really so stupid? Are they so easily swayed by a bit of propaganda and shouting? I’m afraid so, and the visceral, emotional reaction to events is not simply a symptom of stupidity. It is a symptom of the dictatorship of relativism. You see, if you don’t believe there is any such thing as  truth, then... Read more

After I left the Anglican church I trained as a screenwriter and part of the patter in the class was, “You get yourself out there. You connect and network. Then out of the blue you get the call from Hollywood. When the call comes you better be prepared to get up and go!” Yesterday I had the call from Hollywood. I was interviewing award winning actress Roma Downey about her new television series A.D. for an article I’m writing and... Read more