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Doggies or Dogma?

In working out some theory with our new parish Director of Religious Education we’ve been looking at the various resources for catechesis and it seems that they fall into two extremes which might be called Doggies and Dogma. By “Doggies” I mean puppies and kittens. Sugar and spice and everything nice. The books are full [Read More...]

Homosexuality — What Did the Pope Really Say?

Here is the transcript of Pope Francis’ comments on homosexuality earlier this week: My fisk of his statements in red. A journalist asked a question about Vatican official Monsignor Ricca, who was accused of engaging in a homosexual affair: I would like to know, Holiness, what do you intend to do about this question. How [Read More...]

Quick Cool God Proof

Brandon Vogt has posted this neat video which explains the cosmological proof for God’s existence. Remember his very excellent website Strange Notions has lots of resources, info, papers and arguments against atheism. You can also visit William Lane Craig’s excellent site Reasonable Faith Visit and learn!

A Non Theistic Christian Priest?

The new dean of Washington’s National Cathedral identifies himself here as a “non theistic Christian.” I came across some of these agnostic or atheist priests while I was an Anglican. I remember one of them preaching this long winded sermon comparing his own agnosticism to the dark night of the soul. The problem I have [Read More...]

Kathy and Dawn

Yesterday afternoon I had the delightful chance to interview Kathy Schiffer and Dawn Eden for two episodes of my weekly radio show, More Christianity. Kathy blogs here at Seasons of Grace and Dawn, who has written two splendid books, blogs here at Feast of Eden. You can tell Dawn used to be a headline writer. [Read More...]

The Problem with Pope Francis…

As a student at fundamentalist Bob Jones University I can remember the preachers inveighing against what they called “the social gospel”. This was a watered down version of Christianity which avoided talk of sin and salvation, repentance and redemption. The cross and resurrection were studiously avoided to portray a compassionate Jesus who lived among the [Read More...]

Must We Call Them Rad Trads?

There is a conversation going on over at Catholic Lane on Why the title “Rad Trad” or “Radical Traditionalist” should be dropped. You can go here to read post. This interests me because it is a term I use, and despite my best intentions to explain that I am on the traditionalists’ side, that I [Read More...]

Chust for Fun

This blog has been a rather serious place of late with a number of worried, sour and fearful people commenting. Why not lighten up and enjoy this re-mix from Mary Poppins, and for some fun go here and read Bishop Williamson’s review of Mary Poppins…Go here to connect to all of Bishop Williamson’s famous film [Read More...]

Pope Francis in Favor of Gay and Women Priests?

Those who complain that the mainstream media doesn’t report on church matters should stop complaining….or should they? CBS, CNN, the BBC and the Daily Telegraph all report on the Pope’s conversation with reporters on his flight back to Rome. All have the screaming headline, “Pope Francis: Who Am I to Judge Gays?” One of the [Read More...]

Reforming Francis

Here is my latest article for Aleteia: Is Francis a new broom, suddenly changing and reforming everything? Not really. He’s simply continuing the work already started by Benedict.