Theology

I’d like to start with a proposition. Here it is: To be a Christian is to believe…

Last month I posted here some thoughts about abortion rights and the right to die. At Mirror…

The English language is so very rich, and not least when it comes to language about language.…

The pope has stepped up his rhetoric in favor of it. The retired cardinal archbishop of Washington…

Advice given to tourists in Scotland is equally applicable to contemporary academia: “If you don’t like the…

Last Friday, on the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross (September 14), Pope Benedict’s motu proprio…

During the summer of 1502, the young Republic of Florence appeared fated to die as quickly as…

On July 31, I posted here ” A Respectful Word on Episcopal Competence .” Bishop Thomas Wenski…

Impossible, irrational, delusionary, absurd, untrustworthy, fictitious, imaginary: You can’t read much about religion today without encountering these…

A curious teapot tempest of the sort one only finds in the hothouse of Extremely Earnest Conservative…

The October issue of First Things is out, at last. I’ve spent the morning browsing in it,…

The word competence has several meanings, most of which congregate around ability and authority . It is…

The unfortunate publicity and distortions to the point of calumny that have surrounded the publication of the…

G.K. Chesterton once described lunatics as people who have lost everything but their reason. What he meant…

At first glance, the expression “the dictatorship of relativism” sounds like a paradox, maybe even an oxymoron.…