Why You Should Read C.S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce"
In my capacity as regional bishop of the Santa Barbara pastoral region, which co...
Daniel Berrigan and Non-Violence
Last week Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. passed away at the age of 94. Though many yo...
Why You Need Spiritual Food
Every third summer, the Catholic lectionary provides a series of readings for Su...
The Death of God and the Loss of Human Dignity
I am sure by now that many of you have seen the appalling hidden-camera videos o...
Love, Tolerance, and the Making of Distinctions
Last week, I wrote a piece on Bruce Jenner's transformation into Caitlyn Jenner....
The Parable of the Talents
The attendance at our daily Mundelein Seminary on Labor Day weekend was sparse. ...
Revisiting the Argument from Motion
One of the unintended but happy consequences of the emergence of the new atheism...
The Danger of Soft Atheism
A very instructive exchange between Gary Gutting, a philosophy professor at Notr...
Why Jesus is God: A Response to Bart Ehrman
Well, it’s Easter time, and that means that the mainstream media and publishing ...
What is Our Fundamental Problem?
The first reading for Mass on the first Sunday of Lent this year, taken from Gen...
Priest, Prophet and King
A classic characterization of Jesus is that he ispriest, prophet, and king.Aspri...
"Why Goodness Depends on God"
One of the commonest observations made by opponents of religion is that we don’t...
Hannah Arendt
The appearance of an art house film on the philosopher Hannah Arendt has sparked...
Your Life is Not About You
Time Magazine’s recent cover story “The Childfree Life” has generated a good dea...
Why Faith is Indeed a Light
In “new” atheist and secularist circles today, faith is regularly ridiculed. It ...
World War Z and the Council of Trent
There were a number of reasons why I liked “World War Z,” the film based on Max ...
Superman, General Zod, and God
I didn’t really care for the latest cinematic iteration of the Superman myth. Li...
The Preachings of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The appearance of yet another film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great G...
Sympathy for the Devil: What happens when Love turns into tolerance
Some years ago, The New Yorker ran a cartoon that perfectly lampooned the loopy ...
The Adventure of Classical Morality
One of the most significant fault lines in Western culture opened up in the sixt...
This New Francis
I had an excellent vantage point for the presentation of Pope Francis to the wor...
To Evangelize through Beauty
In his masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh implicitly lays out a prog...
The Hobbit and the Gospel
Like Star Wars, The Divine Comedy, and Moby Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit i...
Resisting an Aggressive Secularism
It was with barely concealed delight that “Chicago Sun-Times” columnist Neil Ste...
Why the Sciences will never Disprove the Existence of God
Given the ruminations of Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, on...
Revisiting the Spiritual Warfare
In the sixth chapter of St. Mark’s Gospel, we find the account of Jesus sending ...
The Great Both/And of Catholic Social Teaching
For many on the left, Paul Ryan is a menace, the very embodiment of cold, indiff...