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What Do I Think of Phil Robertson?

We don’t watch TV. I’ve never seen Duck Dynasty. I read about Phil Robertson’s statements in GQ and don’t see what all the fuss is about. He’s simply stated the historic Christian view. He might have used crude language, but he’s just being himself. You can’t be entertained by a hillbilly and then expect him [Read More...]

Free Book from Taylor Marshall

Taylor Marshall is offering a free book explaining why December 25 is the actual date for Jesus’ birth. There is a lot of mis information and propaganda out there, and the explanations on how the date was figured out is a fascinating mystery story. Go here for Taylor’s free book. To get it you have [Read More...]

What’s Right about the New Evangelization?

Wow! The providence of God and the leading of the Holy Spirit never cease to amaze. This week I am pondering the Holy Father’s Evangelii Gaudium and on this blog I was expressing some questions about the pope’s emphasis and some frustrations about the idea of evangelization for most American Catholics today. Then I pick up [Read More...]

Monsignor Heater

Here’s a new take on us clergy being full of hot air…the priest who has to repair the cranky old church heating system… Mgr Charles Pope is one of the best priest bloggers out there. Here he writes of the many varied chores priests have to perform–from fixing the boiler to raking leaves, cleaning the [Read More...]

If the Hat fits…

Here is my latest article for Aleteia–building on a nice incident with Pope Francis. A couple of American college kids bought a white zucchetto and swapped it with the pope during his Wednesday audience. Read the whole article here and learn not only about the hat swapping incident, but a run down on Catholic clerical [Read More...]

Is Pope Francis a Poster Boy for Gays?

This article by homosexual activist Michelangelo Signorili  criticizes the editors of Advocate magazine–a homosexual activist journal–for putting Pope Francis on their cover as person of the year.  Signorili writes, But mostly, this was idiotic. Pope Francis is a lot of things to many people in the world. But he is not our hero of the LGBT community [Read More...]

De-mythologizing: the Default Setting

There’s an old joke about the Protestant New Testament scholar Rudolph Bultmann: Q: Dr Bultmann, what would you say if archeologists, without any doubt, revealed that they had discovered the bones of Jesus Christ? A: So he really did exist then? Bultmann was the main proponent of demythologization. This is the idea that the Scriptures, [Read More...]

Harold Camping Pulls Up His Tent Stakes

It is hard to resist the obvious headline about Biblical soothsayer Harold Camping’s death, “The End Comes at Last for Harold Camping” Indeed my friend Kathy Schiffer reports on his death here. Harold Camping was the fundamentalist minister and radio broadcaster who first predicted that the world would end in 1994.  Seventeen years later, he took [Read More...]

The Prince and the Persecuted

I’ve never had that much time for Prince Charles. He always seemed to me to be rather spineless. However, he’s taken a stand now against the Islamic murderers who are persecuting Christians across the Middle East. In this report from the Daily Telegraph we learn that he has gathered faith leaders together and spoken of [Read More...]

Mercy? Who Needs It?

There is a theme coming through Pope Francis’ pontificate which is at once attractive and alarming. It his his message of joy in the proclamation of the gospel. Evangelii Gaudium is brimming the exhortations to joy. The pope’s own ministry is abundant in joy. He reaches out to others with the attractive joy which is the [Read More...]