For the record, I was first introduced to Martin Mosebach, whose writings I've come to admire very much, by reading his book, The Heresy...

Frank J. Sheed, " Entschuldigen Sie While I Barf " (October 32, 2018): In Rome, Pope Francis is in the news again for his imp...

From one of my readers, worth reading: VERY interesting ... A Jew in the court of King James ... "...more than any other English ...

I just heard this today from a Catholic program and didn't believe it; so I had to look up these allegedly missing verses and see for...

Joseph F. Martin, " What He Saw at the Revolution " ( Imprimatur , June 26, 2016): You are forewarned: this is a  theological ...

Sammy Rhodes, " Meet the New American Dream " ( reformation21 , January 2016): "Meet the New American Dream, Same as the Old ...

A tune-up for Catholic apologetics By  Greg Krehbiel ( Crowhill Weblog , July 1, 2004) Back in 1992 I had a n...

D.G. Hart, " Dueling Videos " ( Old Life , May 9, 2016). One is a USCCB video on religious liberty that cause Michael Sean Winter...

Considering the perpetual motion spin machine that Catholic media has now become, Guy Noir imagines an open letter to Fr. Barron beginning l...

Our underground correspondent from an Atlantic seaboard city that knows how to keep its secrets, Guy Noir - Private Eye , stepped out of ...

The Archbishop was Charles Cardinal Chaput! Seriously! Carl Trueman, " A Presbyterian, his wife, and an Archbishop walk into a bar ....

Under the signatures of Cardinal Kurt Koch, Rev. Brial Farrell, and Rev. Norbert Hofmann, SDB, respectively the President, Vice-President an...

One of our readers (call him Mr. Z.) must have been in a bad mood. Or something. He sent me an email referencing an article entitled ...

My friend John Bell, responding to a unanimous acclamation by an ebullient gaggle Lutheran college students that Martin Luther was the white...

Andre Gingerich Stoner, " Scandalous Miracle " ( Mennonite World Review , September 28, 2015): It was a miracle. Jun Yamada [pi...

Andrée Seu Peterson, " Fast-tracking annulments " ( World , September 9, 2015): Having absolved women for terminating unwan...

New York's first Archbishop, John Hughes, was apparently not one for the "softer, gentler" approach when his churches and a...

They misspelled "Gregorian" in their title , but it's a good piece: The Benedictine monks of Norcia believe that Gregorian ...

It's always helpful, in my opinion, to get a second opinion; in this case, to get a sympathetic outsider's take on Rome's perfor...

D. G. Hart, " Should Biography Be So Important? " (Old Life, April 22, 2015): Ross Douthat’s article on Pope Francis reflects ...