The riddle of gay marriage polling...
The same CBS/New York Times poll that shows Mitt Romney opening up a very slight lead on the president also contains a possible clue to solving the mystery I mentioned last week: The gap between public support for gay marriage in opinion polling and the actual support the cause tends to get at the ballot box. Unlike many of the recent surveys (Gallup, Pew, etc.
The Most Epic Group Photos You Will See Today...
I'd rather be a Catholic than be respectable...
Back in the days when Chuck Colson was willing to run over his grandmother for Richard Nixon, I would have happily done the same to Mr. Colson. Well, that was then, and this is now...
Our friendship and collaboration began in the early 1990s, when Herb Schlossberg, the evangelical author, buttonholed me at a Washington reception and expressed concern about the ongoing fracture between Catholics and evangelical Protestants, two communities that Herb thought should be working together to shore up America’s public culture.
A question about Bart Ehrman's "Lost Christianities"...
Bart Ehrman is the sad case of an Evangelical who got enough of an education that he reached the point a friend of mine reached. My friend said he realized “I can be a Protestant or a Christian, but I could not be both anymore.” The mood of skeptical corrosion that ate away at all the rest of the Catholic and apostolic deposit of faith reaches, finally...
Is God affected by the way we dress for Mass? No, but our neighbors are, and that's why it matters...
Have you heard it yet? If not, chances are you will in the next few weeks. And if you don’t hear it from the pulpit, you might read it in the parish bulletin. And if you don’t find it in your pastor’s column, maybe yours is the community where the parish council or liturgy commission has decided to place signs in the vestibule. Yes...
Post-council confusion is nothing new. Here are just three examples...
In the wake of Fr. Thomas Williams' sad revelation, the Legion's flaws start making a terrible kind of sense...
Consider the example of a large Catholic family. They go to Mass every Sunday and sometimes to daily Mass as well, they pray together, they encourage frequent confession, they do their best to raise and educate their children in the faith--and yet one of the children falls into serious sexual sin, involving out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
Video: An exclusive interview with Bishop Bernard Fellay of the SSPX...
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Video: Having just visited England, I was struck by how deeply the sixteenth century still affects the Church there, and how fundamental is the issue of religious liberty...
I'm just back from a wonderful two-week trip to England with my Word on Fire team. We traveled from Durham in the north to London in the south by way of Leeds and Liverpool and Birmingham and Oxford, as well as side trips to Lindisfarne, Ampleforth, and Castle Howard.
Is Christ literally sitting at the Father's right hand? Saint Augustine explains...
Fr. Z’s annual rant about Ascension Thursday Sunday...
Pope removes priestly status of Canadian bishop caught with child pornography...
Did Jesus have brothers and sisters?
I was brought up as an Evangelical fundamentalist Christian and when we read the verses in the Bible that spoke of Jesus’ “brothers and sisters” we concluded that they were the other children of Joseph and Mary. What I didn’t know is that this idea was unheard of in the early church, and that even the Reformers–Martin Luther...
This has been a tough week for anti-Catholics in Hollywood...
First, a virulently anti-Catholic movie called "The Perfect Family" netted a whopping $14,301. That's right. $14,301. Kirk Cameron movies make more than that. I think Mel Gibson's "The Beaver" made more than that. Hollywood must be stunned.
You be you, and let God be God...
When you believe that there is no God, there's a natural temptation to think of yourself as a sort of god. Perhaps not everyone falls into this way of thinking, but I certainly did. My worldview had a gaping hole in it where God should have been, and I filled it with self. I made all the rules, concocted my own moral code...
Franciscan University of Steubenville drops student health plan over HHS mandate...
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Former gangster says mob kidnapped daughter of Vatican employee...
Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith reported to be open to the SSPX running his seminary...
There are time on this blog when I have openly daydreamed about what it would be like to have priests of the SSPX involved with local diocesan presbyteral councils, deanery meetings, other diocesan entities and events. I was not nearly ambitious enough in my daydreaming. I picked this up from Catholic Church Conservation and thence from katholisches.
L.A. Times analysis: Gay marriage decision not working in Obama's favor so far...
In Baltimore, the Loriole's Opening Day...
Two hundred twenty-three years since the founding of the nation's oldest diocese and the appointment of a cousin of a signer of the Declaration of Independence as its first bishop, the American Catholic spotlight returns to Mother Baltimore today for the installation of John Carroll's 15th successor.
Does John 6:63 Refute the Real Presence?
A couple of my Evangelical friends were recently talking with me about John 6 and the Eucharist. If you haven’t read it recently, you should. In it, Jesus states repeatedly, and in no uncertain terms, that He is the Bread of Life, that our eternal salvation is tied to eating His Body and drinking His Blood...
New York Times scoop! Secret Catholic same-sex unions...
Talk about burying the lede. The mainstream press has been on a tear ever since President Barack Obama announced that his liberal Christian faith had inspired him to change his beliefs on the definition of marriage. One of the most common stories, produced by news outlet after news outlet...
Five ways the Catholic faith can improve your marriage...
Most adult Protestants are married and value marriage. Nevertheless, Protestants are adamant that marriage is not a sacrament. Hence, Protestants and Catholics have a fundamental disagreement over the nature of marriage. So then, one of the most neglected considerations regarding a conversion to the Catholic Faith is how it will affect your marriage.
The Bible says that your happiness is an inside job...
