On Respect Life Sunday, October 3, about 50 members of our parish, St. Vincent de Paul in Wildwood, Florida, picked up signs and spent two h...

As you know from previous posts, one of my interests is the Jewish origins of Catholicism and the fulfillment of the Old Testament in the Ne...

During his visit to the UK, Pope Benedict XVI met with representatives of other major religions, including Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. ...

Sometimes questions have unexpected answers. For instance... Worldwide, when it comes to deaths attributed to hate crimes, what religion i...

Because of the turmoil in Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein half of the approximately one million pre-invasion Christians have fled...

The rector of Mount Calvary Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland has informed his parishioners that the church's vestry voted unanimo...

Yesterday evening I stumbled across an article on the Washington Post's website about a new survey taken by the Pew Forum on Religion a...

A few moments ago I learned that Father Thomas Dubay has died. This remarkable and holy priest had been in ill health for some time and had ...

We've all read or heard about the persecution of Christians in Muslim countries. I've written about it here on numerous occasions. T...

Pope Benedict XVI said many things during his recent visit to the United Kingdom, but one of the more interesting addresses he gave was that...

Anyone who has traveled to Rome knows that churches abound in the Eternal City. Indeed, there are over 600 Catholic churches in Rome, but th...

On several occasions I've addressed the growing commitment among Catholic and Orthodox theologians to achieve unity after more than 1,0...

When it comes to beatifications, most of the recent news has focused on John Henry Cardinal Newman, the 19th Century English convert from An...

And you thought the United States had a monopoly on hateful, amoral, misanthropic artists. Robert Mapplethorpe comes to mind, but he's j...

I received a complaint via email the other day, suggesting that I was devoting far too much of my "blogspace" (his word, not mine)...

Have you heard about the latest not-so-subtle attack on religion that is apparently gaining adherents throughout Europe and especially in th...

Tomorrow we take our leave of Massachusetts and begin our wanderings back home to Florida. We've planned a circuitous route via upstate ...

Here's an interesting and perceptive article by Matthew Hanley, posted on The Catholic Thing: Islam and Self-Knowledge . It's a guts...

It's certainly been a busy week here in Massachusetts as we make the rounds visiting our children and grandchildren. New grandchild,...

About thirty years ago my dear wife, Diane, gave me an absolutely wonderful Christmas gift: a multi-volume set of Cardinal Newman's comp...