A Christian friend of mine requested that I write a prayer she could pray with her agnostic husband. He is, like almost everyone we meet in the world today, turned off by the self-righteousness of many Christians who see Faith as an elite club they've joined, a club they can use to beat other people over [...]
We've been talking much lately about "intentional disciples" and of the need for parishes to foster "true discipleship", to encourage the formation of capital D Disciples and not just neo-pagan lukewarm modernists disguised as Christians. The problem is Wormwood pulls up a pew and says to us, in his cloying and flattering tone, "According to most [...]
Our friend Stanford Nutting, liberal ex-theologian who Stands-for-Nothing, feels that the heart of the Christian faith can be summed up in the words, “Jesus was nice; you be nice, too.” He has taught that in RCIA and CCD classes for decades as an ad-hoc DRE at suburban parishes, ever since he dropped out of seminary in [...]
Joseph Pearce keeps reminding me that self-promotion is the heart and soul of show business, and he's right. But in promoting my own stuff, I'm actually promoting the good work of others, especially when it comes to the Ignatius Press Critical Editions. So here goes. The IP Critical Edition series are classic texts that are paired [...]
In this current issue of the St. Austin Review, there's an article by me in which I mention a leftist I know who's devoted to a notion of what he calls "anarchy". By this he seems to mean not mere disorder and chaos, but the destruction of centralized order, and in its place an atomized order; [...]
The word is “unreal”. I had been looking for this word for a long time. You see, we have a few odd linguistic quirks here in St. Louis, where I live. For one thing, we use the word “hoosier” to mean “urban white trash” – the only place on earth where you’ll find this word used [...]
My latest comedy video on YouTube, "A Stanford Nutting Christmas" features liberal ex-seminarian Stanford Nutting hosting a holiday special with members of his family, including his radical traditionalist half-brother Bill Johnson, his televangelist cousin Rev. Cletus P. Love, and his cynical atheist grandma who worships the periodic table of the elements. Click here and be prepared [...]
I know the Immaculate Conception is controversial as viewed from a Protestant perspective, but there is a Gospel analogy that supports it. Why would Mary, the most important woman in salvation history, "need" to be Immaculately Conceived, a "new creation" like Eve? Because you "can't put new wine in old wineskins" - Mat. 9:14-17, Mark 2:18-22, [...]
(A response to my friend Joe Grabowski's post here http://arthuringlewood.blogspot.com/2010/12/ww3d.html about the communion of saints.) At times like yesterday when I went to Holy Mass at a parish center that is used for Mass by a parish in Kansas that has abandoned its old traditional church and uses a meeting room with folding chairs and no [...]
I have just begun a very interesting book called "The Heresy of Formlessness" by Martin Mosebach, translated from the German by Graham Harrison and published by ( http://www.ignatius.com/Products/HF-P/heresy-of-formlessness.aspx ) Ignatius Press. The style is delightful and the writer writes with a self-conscious continental attitude that says, “I’m an artist and I see things differently and therefore I [...]
