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A Road of Deathly Uncertainty
Through falling ash and brutal cold, a starving father and son travel a barren road, scavenging for what sustenance remains hidden in the burned ruins along their path and avoiding other starved...
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The Symbolism of Santa Claus
My wife and I have only loosely weaved the figure of Santa Claus into our Christmas celebrations. Neither of us feel very strongly about Santa one way or another, although we have family members who...
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Objective Morality Needs No Ultimate Source
In the short video below, Boston College philosophy professor Peter Kreeft goes looking for the ultimate source of morality, doesn’t find it in evolution, reason, conscience, human nature, or...
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Eucharistic Priorities
Some Catholics baffle me. I will on occasion come upon a conversation in which one of my coreligionists explains his or her insistence on receiving the Blessed Sacrament only from the priest, i.e.,...
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Torture Isn’t Complicated
Jon Stewart, the comedic political commentator and host of The Daily Show, has an unfortunate habit of thinking he’s being hospitable to a legitimate opposing viewpoint when really he’s just inclining...
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Sin and Safe Religion
In college I knew of young men who were apprehensive about kissing their girlfriends because they might have a lustful thought. One individual of my acquaintance, for this same reason, refused to hold...
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What Distinguishes a Christian?
I wondered about this question while catching a glimpse of the cardinals processing into the conclave, each one speaking Latin in a particular accent. Sure, this ritual had its uniqueness in the world...
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What Tyranny of Relativism?
Via the Anchoress, I see that Pope Francis has continued his predecessor’s use of the phrase “dictatorship of relativism” to describe a spiritual poverty of our present age: But there is another form...
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Assessing God’s Authorities
Were I not a believer, I’d scoff at the idea of any person claiming to speak with the voice of God. As it is, I find the prospect reasonable, assuming certain presuppositions about God’s interaction...
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Deconstructing the Afterlife
As I get older, watching family, friends and strangers pass into the unknown, I think more about death and my own passage into it. The more I contemplate this eventuality, the less satisfied I am with...
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Strange Notions Engages Atheism
Catholic writer Brandon Vogt has launched Strange Notions, a site he intends to be a place of fruitful dialogue between Catholics and atheists. I’m glad to see Leah Libresco among the main...
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Virtue and Sexism in Purity Culture
One Sunday during the years of my adolescence I attended the morning worship service all by my lonesome. I forget the reason why. I sat down in a pew to the left of the altar, awaiting the start of...
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Sin, Sex, and Solidarity
Few people today, Catholics included, “think with the Church” on sexual morality. This is obvious. The more difficult question to answer is why. Multiple reasons, I’m sure, although I think we can...
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The Finest School
“I was graduated from the finest school, which is that of the love between a parent and a child. Though the world is constructed to serve glory, success, and strength, one loves one’s parents and one’s...
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Compensating for Care of the Family
Political question: in an economy that often requires both parents to work in order to make ends meet, and in an effort to strengthen the family, which is said to be the bedrock of society, should...
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The Dark of Faith: A Subtlety in Lumen Fidei
I’m still making my way through Lumen Fidei, the encyclical letter on faith that was begun by Pope Benedict XVI, finished by Pope Francis, and was released today. The encyclical, the title of which...
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The Development of Sex, Marriage, and Nature in Christian Thought
“To have intercourse without intending children is to violate nature, which we must take as our teacher.” – Clement of Alexandria Throughout many traditions of Christian thought, theologians have taken...
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The End of Absolute Sexual Morality
My friend Darwin observes: When trying to make-nice to conservatives, proponents of “same sex marriage” tend to emphasize it as a way of enshrining commitment and sexual morality. However, while this...
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Religious Liberty Means Religious Privilege
So far two bakeries have faced legal challenges to their refusal to make wedding cakes for same-sex weddings. Opponents of same-sex marriage see these cases as the start of a fast approaching...
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