Michael Liccione

Objection 1. God doesn’t care who wins the Super Bowl. For sporting events are “of the world,” and God calls us out of the world to share even now in his divine life. Objection 2. If God did care who wins the Super Bowl, he would be sucked into the world’s rabid . . . . Continue Reading »

Is it wrong to speak as though favoring religious freedom and opposing slavery are basic Christian principles? Yes, says S.M. Hutchens of Touchstone , a signer of the Manhattan Declaration (henceforth ‘MD’). At the magazine’s blog Mere Comments , Hutchens criticizes MD for making . . . . Continue Reading »

For approving an abortion at an Arizona hospital late last year, Sr. Margaret McBride has incurred excommunication latae sententiae”meaning that her actions have caused her to excommunicate herself. Or so, at least, her bishop, Thomas Olmstead of Phoenix, has announced… . Continue Reading »

Were it not for the sign on the red canopy over the entrance, one could easily pass St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church by as just another building along a nondescript city block. Inside, however, the profusion of images is even more conducive to prayer and worship than in the usual Orthodox . . . . Continue Reading »

Among the many ironies punctuating Catholic history, one of the more curious is the spectacle of theologians, dedicated to expounding doctrine on the God who “is love” (1 John 4:8), insisting that infants who die unbaptized will never see God. But, in a letter published in the print . . . . Continue Reading »

Entering St Joseph’s in Yorkville for the first time, I found it a pleasure to look around—to view the exquisite stained-glass windows in the sanctuary and to peer upward at the less outstanding but still worthy ceiling murals of scenes from the lives of Jesus and Mary. Originally founded . . . . Continue Reading »

One of Manhattan’s most illustrious Episcopal congregations, Saint Thomas Church is best known for its glorious liturgical music and the stunning architecture of its 1913 church building, in French High Gothic style, on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-Third Street. The church’s choir of men and . . . . Continue Reading »

Among recently “planted” Protestant churches in Manhattan, Redeemer Presbyterian is by far the fastest growing and best known. It’s so new, in fact, that it doesn’t have its own worship space yet. While that is under construction (at West 83rd Street and Broadway), the . . . . Continue Reading »

Although Meghan Duke has already posted accurate praise for Bruce D. Marshall’s review , in the current FT, of Gary Anderson’s book Sin: A History , I want to say a bit more about the review from my own standpoint as a theology buff. Anderson does not strive, and Marshall does not call, . . . . Continue Reading »

“The Catholic Voice in the Public Square: Sectarian or Civic?” was the title of a lecture given last night at Manhattan’s Church of St. Vincent Ferrer by Helen Alvaré, associate professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law, senior fellow at the Culture of Life . . . . Continue Reading »