I am hearing from devout Catholics who are upset about this story ... An Oklahoma City satanist says he plans to protest the Catholic Church’s beliefs about Jesus’s birth by pouring costume blood over a statue of the Virgin Mary outside of St. Joseph Old Cathedral on Christmas Eve. Adam Daniels says he hopes his display, titled [...]
Talk show host Stephen Colbert puts his Tolkien expertise to use in this funny segment from his show ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Sv0O_6noI
The Four Marks of the Church are these. The Church is 1. One 2. Holy 3. Catholic 4. Apostolic But the Church on earth seems to be the opposite of these four things. The Church as we see it is 1. Not One, but Fragmented and Fractious. 2. Not Holy, but filled with Sin and Sinners. [...]
[Here's an article I posted on my blog back in 2011. I am reproducing it here as it has a few things in common with Joseph Pearce's recent mystical near-death experience. The strange spiritual consolation I describe when I was closest to death is not what I would call "mystical" as it seemed rather ordinary, though surprising. [...]
I have always hated the word “Detachment” and suspected that this virtue is misunderstood in Catholic circles ... (read more in my article for Catholic Exchange)
Here's a fun article from the Duluth News Tribune about the murder mystery shows that I've been performing on board the North Shore Scenic Railroad in Duluth, Minnesota since 2000 (though the article says 2002). The article even quotes one of our biggest fans - Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society! The above photo is [...]
My friend Ken Colston has written for First Things a review of the book A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion by David Scott Kastan. What caught my eye were some of the things Colston quotes Kastan as saying in Kastan's attempt to deny that Shakespeare's plays are religious (my emphasis). “Religion is central in the [...]
The word “immediate” has a few different connotations. The most common is the sense of something happening without delay. When a child cries for a toy, he wants that toy immediately. To understand that life consists of a gap between what we desire and when we are satisfied is part of maturity. To demand “instant gratification” [...]
Bill Cosby is not a Catholic, so what does he have to do with the Catholic Church? To answer that question, I am going to bring in Plato, Socrates, St. Bernadette and the now obscure comedian Professor Irwin Corey (pictured below). It all began early this morning, when I woke up angry. I was at the [...]