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Atheist Trolls

Over the last few weeks we’ve have some atheist trolls visiting the combox. I have attempted to answer some of their questions through a series of posts, and regular readers who are more learned than I am have also added comments. What has emerged from the discussions is how genuinely ignorant most of the atheists [...]

Chust for Nice

The relics of St Mary Magdalene were enshrined here in the Middle Ages. The Basilica at Vezelay in central France is one of the most glorious examples of French Romanesque architecture.

Atheism’s Accomplisments

Go here for another one of the world’s great atheist contributions to world culture…

Old Monk on Personal Growth

If you become better in an instant you will also become worse in an instant. For change to be lasting it must be gradual.

Chust for Nice

One of the great monuments built by atheists…Whoops. Just kidding.

The Early Date of Mark’s Gospel

In seminary we had to study modern Biblical scholarship, and one of my great blessings was that at Bob Jones I learned to be skeptical of the fundamentalists, but at Oxford I learned to be skeptical of the modernists. Both groups seemed to me to be like two madmen strapped back to back. Both the [...]

Ed Blanch on Jesus

Guest blogger Ed Blanch writes for knotRED– the Intercollegiate Marxist Review. An activist with the Occupy Chick-Fil-A movement, he is also a member of Citizens for Rap Music. He comments regularly on the PETA website and blogs at There’s No Sky Fairy. Ed is a sophomore at North Jersey College of Technology majoring in media studies. It [...]

Mary Statue Weeps Blood

Here’s a story from India about a statue of the Blessed Virgin that weeps blood. So what? Why should we be interested? Here’s why: Because weird things happen. Here’s an article I wrote. It’s called Weird Things Happen. Because weird things happen they cause us to wonder and ponder. That’s what religion is supposed to be [...]

How Do we Know the Gospels are Historical?

It is easy to exchange convinced assertions: “The gospels are 100% God’s holy Word and every bit is historically accurate!” or “The gospels are fairy tales!” However there is a discipline called “Biblical scholarship” in which scholars do some very interesting work determining just which parts of the gospels they think are reliable and which [...]

Affirming All Things

Here is my latest for Catholic Online–on how to deal positively with the challenges you face with non-Catholic family and friends.