For all good Protestants, myself included, Mary is the ultimate stumbling block on a journey into full Catholic communion. This wasn’t so for the first 1,500 years of Church history. Martin Luther one of the earliest Protestant reformers held strong and fast to Marian doctrine even doctrine, like...
Update 2/11/14, 12:09 pm eastern: Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi says that reports of an assassination attempt on Pope Francis in the Philippines are “unreliable.” Pope Francis has made it clear that he doesn’t like security. But due to great security work, he may have narrowly...
A mainland Chinese student visited my office last week, asking for a letter of recommendation for his transfer to another university. It is hard to lose a student like this—enthusiastic and bright, the sort who sits on the front row of a large auditorium lecture class and asks good...
To any single Catholic guy who thinks he has an argument for why finding his spouse is impossible, I say to you: That’s Nick Vujicic. He has no arms or legs. Yes, he has a beautiful wife. But I’m not here just to shame you – I’m going...
Bob Dylan is one of the greatest American musicians in the last few decades. He has sold more than 100 million albums, won countless awards, and even received a Presidential Medal of Freedom. But he wishes he hadn’t gone into music. In a recent interview with AARP (Dylan is...
In his masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh implicitly lays out a program of evangelization that has particular relevance to our time. “Brideshead” refers, of course, to a great manor house owned by a fabulously wealthy Catholic family in the England of the 1920’s. In the complex semiotic schema of...
