Leroy Huizenga

Early Friday morning, Catholic blogger and new media guru Brandon Vogt took the text of the papal encyclical Lumen Fidei from the Vatican website where it is available free online, and reformatted it for various readers like Kindle, Nook, and iPad , thinking that it would be a good and evangelical . . . . Continue Reading »

Pope Francis’ first encyclical, Lumen Fidei (“The Light of Faith”), has been released, available online . The encyclical itself is relatively short, but those who wish to read a thorough summary before approaching the encyclical itself may do so courtesy of the Vatican Information . . . . Continue Reading »

Damian Thompson is a British journalist , author , and traditionalist Catholic loyal to Rome. A keen observer of happenings in both the Catholic and Anglican, he’s written a fascinating piece examining the similarities between Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby : The . . . . Continue Reading »

At his weekly Angelus address, Pope Francis delivered some wonderful words on conscience today , using his predecessor’s radical decision to resign the papacy as an example, along with that of Mary: So we also [like Jesus] must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this . . . . Continue Reading »

Larry Taunton, executive director of the Fixed Point Foundation , reports on the findings of a project involving interviewing college students belonging to Secular Student Alliances and Freethought Societies: Using the Fixed Point Foundation website, email, my Twitter, and my Facebook page, we . . . . Continue Reading »

I’d like to direct readers’ attention to a new online journal, Second Nature , dedicated to “critical thinking about technology and new media in light of the Christian tradition,” founded by a faculty friend and two former students of mine from Wheaton College, Dr. Read . . . . Continue Reading »

Canon lawyer Ed Peters, who thinks and writes and even blogs(!) with extreme clarity and precision, has put forth a primer on the Catholic Church’s teaching on what’s called same-sex marriage. For those who wish to be truly informed, whatever their position on the issue, it is very much . . . . Continue Reading »

My beloved North Dakota has been in the middle of a national firestorm concerning abortion politics and policy for some weeks, as our legislature has passed three particularly strong pro-life laws with bipartisan backing . (Others are in process, including one which ban tax monies from funding . . . . Continue Reading »

Pope Benedict has announced he will resign the papacy effective February 28: Dear Brothers, I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my . . . . Continue Reading »

“Ban Contraception?” the banner ad said, urging viewers to click it in order to tell Congress to “support women’s health!” The suggestion that cultural conservatives want to make birth control illegal is risible. Most social conservatives, being Evangelicals, have zero problem with contraception whatsoever, and those Catholics who obey the Church’s teaching on contraception make zero effort to outlaw it… . Continue Reading »