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Duck Dynasty Doesn’t Duck

The Duck Dynasty stars don’t duck the issues, and here’s why: What the Robertson affair reveals is a remarkable lack of understanding amongst secularists. Those who do not believe in the Christian faith seem to view the church as some sort of club for people who want to make the world a better place–kind of [Read More...]

Pope, President, Power and Poverty

My comments on the meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama are published here at Aleteia.  A President may talk of “hope and change” and mouth political platitudes about the greatness of his people and their longing for freedom, or he may genuinely want to change the world for the better. Nevertheless, he will have no real [Read More...]

Read, Mark and Learn – Day 17

Like yesterday’s story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, this story is full of deep significance. The Walking on the Water. 45Then he made his disciples get into the boat and precede him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.46 And when he had taken leave of them, he went off to the [Read More...]

An Offer You Can Refuse

Here is my latest article for Aleteia–about Pope Francis’ telling the gangsters they’re headed downstairs… In The Godfather, Vito Corleone famously told his son to make his rivals “an offer they can’t refuse.” It was an understated direction for the gangsters to use force to get their own way. Speaking at a prayer service for victims [Read More...]

A New Way Forward for Anglicans

Here is my contribution this week to ZENIT in which I discuss the Anglican Ordinariate and its potential to be a bridge across the Tiber for a wider range of non Catholic Christians. This is exactly why the Anglican Ordinariate congregations will become the first light of the new ecumenism. They will not be only [Read More...]

The Table Turning Jesus

Here is my latest article for Catholic Online  Pope Francis has reminded us that the Lord is a God of surprises. The Catholic faith is “ever ancient ever new” because while we have our dogmas and decrees and our rubrics and rules and regulations we also have the Holy Spirit–a Spirit that blows where it [Read More...]

Faithworks! 21

Here is the link to my free weekly newsletter. This week there are articles on the works of mercy, lessons from next Sunday’s Mass readings, Points to Ponder, links to resources and an article on reading Sacred Scripture. Notice too, that each week there is a featured painting–usually a piece of art that connects with [Read More...]

Read, Mark and Learn – Day 16

Mark returns to his agenda of revealing who Jesus really is. The signs that Jesus shows are revelations of his identity. The rejection he suffers is also, ironically, a revelation of his identity. Mark continues to use symbols which will resonate with his readers–all of which combine to reveal Jesus as the Son of God. [Read More...]

Romance is Coming to the Big Apple

If you are in the New York City area I invite you to join me for a lecture and book signing at the HQ of First Things Magazine. I’ll be speaking on Telling Mythical Tales to Evangelize. April 1st from 6:00 – 8:00 –  35 East 21st St. Sixth floor. This is all about my new [Read More...]

Burning Babies for Fuel

In scenes reminiscent of ovens and chimneys in Germany some eighty years ago we learn from this article in London’s Daily Telegraph that the British have incinerated the bodies of over 15,000 babies–either the fetal remains of miscarriages or abortions. The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste, with [Read More...]