Despite the remarkable growth of the Catholic Church in Asia and Africa, the Catholic Church in Europe may soon resemble the mere skeleton o...

Change, surprisingly rapid change, seems to define our world today. No aspect of human activity is immune, including religion. Events and mo...

Readings: Lev 19:1-2, 17-18; Ps 103; 1 Cor 3:16-23; Mt 5:38-48 Interesting readings, aren’t they? In our first reading from Leviticus, Mos...

Every so often I can't resist the temptation to offer the readers of this blog -- a select group, a very select group -- some of the odd...

Early morning in Central Florida - Photo taken 2/10/2007 I am waking earlier these days. Perhaps it's just a symptom of aging, but w...

Prayer Breakfasts. Our president, the nation's self-proclaimed leading aficionado of religious freedom, decided to address the issue at ...

In a recent post -- December 6 -- I included a few paragraphs from Pope Francis'   apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium in which h...

Frank Buckles This year we celebrate, if I may be pardoned for using that word, the centennial of the start of World War One. I was born...

In yesterday's post -- More Murdered Christians? Ho-Hum...  -- I provided a link to an excellent article by Michael Brendan Dougherty i...

This will likely be a disjointed post full of seemingly random thoughts, but every so often I'm just overwhelmed by what I see in the wo...

Every so often I write here about the ongoing and growing persecution of Christians throughout the world, especially in the Islamic world. I...

Readings: Is 42:1-4, 6-7; Ps 29; Acts 10:34-38; Mt 3:13-17 Mary Queen of Scots, as she waited those long years in prison before being ex...

Isn't it remarkable that so many who came before us turn out to have been pretty smart? This is no new revelation; it's been known f...