Which Renegade Pope Encouraged Dialogue with Atheists?
If the post on interreligious dialogue with Muslims is any indication, then the following words from a pope might blow a few gaskets: Today, in addition to interreligious dialogue, there should be a...
View ArticleCulprit Behind Breasts Ballooning is Breaking Creation’s Back
I can’t even begin to explain the algorithms that got me to the DailyMail story on the scientific study of involutnary breast augmentation. I couldn’t resist the story, because it is of theological...
View ArticleWatershed Vatican Conference Makes War on Just War
There is a solid rule about what you can expect about reporting on Catholicism: If it’s making the front pages of the news and creating heated debate, then it’s most likely irrelevant and will have no...
View ArticleBenedict’s Unequivocal Endorsement Silences Francis’s Critics
These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action. The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation. Here...
View ArticleOnly Useful Idiots Would Say Cardinal Zen is Calling for Schism in China
On June 30, 2016, the Italian news outlet La Stampa put out an article written by Gianni Valente with the provocative headline, ‘Zen to Chinese Catholics: If agreement with China is signed, do not...
View ArticleThinker Behind the “Benedict Option” Appears to be Taking a Neo-Marxist Turn
Rod Dreher has been very generous to this blog throughout the years. Cosmos has been linked on a consistent basis by him. It owes a large chunk of its audience to him. Rod and I have had our...
View ArticleBenedict XVI Admits to Being an Early Critic of Humanae Vitae in Book-Length...
A religion is only plausible if it tells you what to do with your genitals. Thus, Humanae Vitae, Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical about artificial contraception, is where the Catholic Church forcefully...
View ArticleThe Holy Family as an Icon of World Refugee Day?
The exemplary figure of the refugee has deep biblical roots in both the Old and New Testaments.
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