Advent is right around the corner…
The Magicians Twin: C. S. Lewis, Scientism, and the Future
November 23, 2012 by
C. S. Lewis passed away 49 years ago yesterday (November 22, 1963). His death was little noticed here in the states, as it happened to coincide with a startling event: The assassination of John F. Kennedy. However of the two men, Lewis’s legacy has proved startlingly vital compared to Kennedy’s. The above video is a […]
Book Review: American Patriots: By Rick Santorum
November 19, 2012 by
Through a friend of a friend, I managed to get on the Tyndale list for preview/review copies of books. the first one that they gave me was Rick Santorum’s American patriots. In a nutshell, it’s a neat book. The faux-aged paper is a bit tacky, but the contents, if not researched and cited to an academic […]
The End of Advent (First Things)
November 18, 2012 by
The following is one of my favorite pieces to read every year as Advent approaches. It is here reproduced in it’s entirety. hristmas has devoured Advent, gobbled it up with the turkey giblets and the goblets of seasonal ale. Every secularized holiday, of course, tends to lose the context it had in the liturgical year. […]
Young Earth Creationism vs. Old Earth Evolution: The Catholic Position.
November 14, 2012 by
God is Love. He perfect, omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnibenevolent (all good). Being Love in his very essence, he gives freely of himself to another, for the sake of the other, expecting nothing in return. God created us precisely because He is Love, and desired to share himself with us freely, expecting nothing in return. In those […]
Vegans for Food Equality
November 4, 2012 by
Here’s a great piece which underscores the very notion of the redefinition of things once commonly held (with a hat tip to Mark Shea). VEGANS FOR FOOD EQUALITY Inspired by the success of Catholics for Marriage Equality, a new group has formed: Vegans for Food Equality. Here is what they say: After generations of silence, […]
All Hallow’s Eve: A Halloween Manifesto
October 31, 2012 by
There have been a few divisive camps among Catholics as to how best to celebrate Halloween. Some let their kids dress up as ghouls and ghosts, seeing no harm in it. Some view it as a way to “laugh at the devil” and the power of death. We have a desire to encounter the frightening, but in […]
Bartimaeus: “How Poor Was He?”
October 29, 2012 by
This Sunday’s reading came from Mark 10, and it told about Bartimaeus. This story always reminded me of that famous comedic shtick: “I once knew a man who was so poor,” to which an audience member would yell out, “how poor was he?!” In the cause of poor Bartimaeus, it seems he was so poor […]
What are Marian apparitions? What do I have to believe about them? What if they are on a grilled cheese sandwich?
October 27, 2012 by
A Marian apparition is a purported miraculous appearance of Mary on Earth. They are not a new phenomenon. “Throughout the ages, there have been so-called ‘private’ revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to […]