Sandro Magister, " All Against All: The Postconciliar Period Recounted by Ratzinger, Theologian and Pope " (www.chiesa, July 27, 2...

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers Government is the great fiction, through which eve...

We all have stories. I've got mine. I have had some amazing students over my years of teaching. Some have become fast friends. One ki...

Two major contemporary works on the Mass will be published in August and September: Charles Journet, The Mass: The Presence of the Sacri...

I've always felt that the struggle between spiritual good and evil in the world coexist, not as two discrete "sides" that can ...

A reader just called my attention to this fascinating and provocative discussion posted by John da Fiesole over at Disputations: " The ...

Here is the exhilarating yield from an examination I gave this summer in a senior-level course in religious studies: Who was the Roman emper...

A little detective story involving three elderly ladies, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and a baseball game.

Are any of you acquainted with the website, PewSitter.com -- "Voice of the Catholic Lay Faithful"? I've been receiving email...

by Ralph Roister-Doister Like many dioceses across the country, and especially in the northeast, my diocese, the diocese of Buffalo, is unde...

Speaking of Catholic-Protestant differences in outlook, Dale Price has a priceless discussion of the nearly antithetically different percept...

Christopher has posted an article, " Cardinal Walter Kasper: Helping or Hindering the CDF? " ( Against the Grain , July 14, 2007)....

The Dutch Reformed tradition in philosophy -- often called " Reformational Philosophy " (not to be confused with the " Reform...

" Pope Benedict uses older ritual for his private Mass " (Catholic World News, July 16, 2007): Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news), who...

The following is a student's email message to a professor -- sent, I presume, by means of text messaging from a mobile phone: Hello Prof...