Twenty years ago, I had finished my Masters in theology at a university renown for its fidelity to the Church and the Pope. It was clear to ...

I’ve been reading The Spanish Inquisition by Henry Kamen (I figured it would be good to root out any triumphalism in me to read it during L...

Introduction Not all Catholics take the flagrant line of rejecting authority. Some try to portray themselves as perfectly willing to follow...

Introduction The case of the media getting the news wrong about the workings of the Church is nothing unusual. When you assign reporters to...

The drumbeat of media commentators talking about the danger of schism within the Catholic Church seems to be a popular theme. The latest com...

The drumbeat of media commentators talking about the danger of schism within the Catholic Church seems to be a popular theme. The latest com...

As I read some of the Catholic blogs out there written by people deeply troubled by the summary report of the first half of the synod, I ke...

As I read some of the Catholic blogs out there written by people deeply troubled by the summary report of the first half of the synod, I ke...

  Parvus error in initio magnus erit in fine (“Small error in the beginning; large [error] will be in the end”) —St. Thomas Aquinas   ...

  Parvus error in initio magnus erit in fine (“Small error in the beginning; large [error] will be in the end”) —St. Thomas Aquinas   ...

   20  Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, 21  for no proph...

   20  Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, 21  for no proph...