We began our Beauty of Faith Pilgrimage to Ireland in Dublin, visiting its churches and its saints/saints in the making: St. Valentine-the Roman saint whose relics are at the Whitefriar Street church; St. John Henry Newman’s University Church where he delivered some of the discourses that became An Idea of Read more…
The Superior of the Jesuits, Fr. Arturo Sosa, recently denied the personal existence of the devil, calling him a personification of evil rather than an actual being–a symbol, he argued. He was quickly corrected by exorcists, who know the devil’s reality from personal experience. It is true that the Catechism Read more…
Neil Postman aptly described our society as a Technopoly, or what we could also refer to as technocracy – a society fundamentally shaped and ruled by technology. Technology has played a central role civilization from the beginning, but a shift has occurred as technology has passed beyond normal human proportions. Read more…
Joseph was a royal figure, descended from David, and, therefore, able to make the claim to be the Messiah: the Lord’s anointed king. David had said that he wanted to build a temple or house for the Lord, but the Lord replied: “You shall not build me a house to Read more…
Nietzsche, in The Gay Science, after proclaiming the death of God (through the voice of the madman), declared churches to be nothing more than sepulchers of God. Having led a pilgrimage to some of the most beautiful churches in France and Belgium, I think the atheistic prophet is on to Read more…
The following reflection is an excerpt from a talk I gave on Catholic education and the formation of culture: Christopher Dawson, in his work The Crisis of Western Education, proposes that Catholic education should take place with the context of culture: the reception and transmission of the treasury of the Read more…
My friend and former student, Katie Warner, just did a focus on lay Catholics who are helping to revive Catholic culture. See the article here. I’m glad that Katie included my book, The Beer Option, as part of this revival of culture. This is exactly why I wrote the book, Read more…
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