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Religion with Panache!

The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty is published today. (Fanfare of trumpets and drum roll please) Here’s the scoop: Skeptics of Christianity and atheists often characterize faith as a fairy tale. Even many Christians frequently confuse the real with the imaginary, adore false gods and reject real truth, as presented in the [Read More...]

Free Weekly Newsletter

One of my New Year’s resolutions was to get my free weekly  newsletter up and running again. Last year this time I suddenly had more writing responsibilities and it was put on the shelf. A new issue is up and running today. Each week there are short articles on prayer, some nice Catholic art and [Read More...]

The Romance of Religion

Tomorrow sees the publication of my new book, The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty This book has been gestating for about ten years. It was originally conceived as the second book in a theological trilogy. The first book is my study on the Apostle’s Creed called The Quest for the Creed: What [Read More...]

Do the Pope Benedict and Francis Clash?

Here is my interview with Catholic News Service in Rome last week, in which I discuss Benedict and Francis as epitomizing the prophetic and priestly strands of tradition… Please watch and share.

Football? What’s the Point?

On this Super Bowl Sunday I am proud to announce that I have decided that sports have no point, and that ‘s the point. Here is my latest essay for The Imaginative Conservative website–just in time for reading and sharing before the big game. I admit it. I am not an athlete. I am ham [Read More...]

An Overview of Eliot

Have you ever wanted to understand T.S.Eliot’s poetry? I’ve written an overview of his works here at The Imaginative Website. From his earliest years as a poet Eliot revered Dante, considering him to be the great master. In a speech to the Italian Institute in 1950 he said, “I do not think I can explain [Read More...]

Christians Slaughtered by Muslims

Michael Coren highlights the bloody violence against Christians in the Middle East in this article this particular Bible might be of interest to the viewers as he had been given it by an Iraqi Christian who attended Our Lady of Salvation Syriac Catholic Cathedral in Baghdad. The church had been attacked during the evening Mass [Read More...]

Rolling Stone or Solid Rock?

Here’s my article on the Pope’s Rolling Stone cover for Aletia Pope Francis is busy racking up magazine cover appearances. Within the last few months, his smiling face has graced the cover of Time as their Person of the Year. The New Yorker featured him front and center, as did the Italian edition of Vanity Fair and an American gay activist [Read More...]

Satan is Real – Read these Amazing Stories

Latoya Ammons is a women from Indiana who had to have an exorcism for herself and her children. The story is making its way across the news outlets, and unusual for a story like this–the supernatural phenomenon and Latoya and her family’s subsequent deliverance has been treated seriously and objectively. Part of the reason for [Read More...]

That Pope Francis Superhero Graffiti? I Was There

I’m on the last day of my visit to Rome, and the Borgo is the network of little streets full of restaurants, bookshops, souvenir shops and church supply stores just outside the walls of the Vatican. As I walked down the Pio Borgo I spotted a crowd of people and two or three television news [Read More...]