25 Tuesday May 2010
With the Synod on Holy Scripture currently meeting in Rome, the Church’s teaching on Biblical inerrancy has become a timely topic of discussion. A little further down is a clip from John Allen’s interview with Cardinal Francis George on the subject.
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22 Thursday Apr 2010
(Come and Follow Me, by Father Stephano Maria Manelli, F.I.,)
In the days since Vatican II, the Church has seen an alarming decline in the numbers of young people willing to consecrate themselves to God in the life of religion or the secular priesthood. Why should we be surprised, when the very foundations of the religious life (dogma, purity, self-denial, opposition to the world, etc.) have all been undermined by liberalism and modernism? Continue reading
08 Thursday Apr 2010
Posted in Articles Published in Other Venues
Catholic World News (CWN) reports: “US Catholics tilt left, Pew survey finds.” The recent Pew Forum study under discussion “shows that many self-described American Catholics ignore Church teachings on both theological and social issues.” Continue reading
01 Thursday Apr 2010
(This was written in preparation for a series of conferences on vocations and states in life that I gave at Saint Benedict Center in the Spring of 2005. Please see the end of this piece for a small table of contents with links to the other conferences.)
We have spoken of choosing a partner and of the preparation for matrimony that we call courtship. Now I would like to speak of married life itself. Continue reading
04 Thursday Mar 2010
Question: What do a French beggar-saint, a burned-down Boston convent, and County Limerick, Ireland, all have in common?
Answer: The subject of this article, the first “Yankee Priest,” Father John Thayer. Continue reading
25 Thursday Feb 2010
Posted in Apologetics, Articles Published in Other Venues
Whenever Catholics and non-Catholics find themselves discussing religion — an all too rare occurrence — one of the commonest objections voiced by the non-Catholic has something to do with the “horribly corrupt” history of the Catholic Church. What this article sets out to do is to show — if the objector claims to believe in the Bible, and even if his version of history is true (which it often is not) — that he still has a useless objection to Catholicism, useless, that is, in assessing the truth of our Faith. Continue reading
18 Thursday Feb 2010
Defenses against two common objections to the Holy Rosary, written, we hope, with a little humor.
“Vain Repetition” — The Big Canard
This is probably the objection Protestants have to the Rosary, that “vain repetition” is condemned by God. Continue reading