Excerpts from Pope Benedict’s Last Christmas Homily
Again and again the beauty of this Gospel touches our hearts: a beauty that is the splendour of truth. Again and again it astonishes...
Bare Knuckles Apologetics: Richard Dawkins Revisited
The British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is possibly the most ubiquitous atheist on the planet. He has dedicated himself to countless books, lectures, and...
Contrasting Two Films: Of Gods and Men, and The Way
Of Gods and Men (2010), Directed by Xavier Beauvois, Written by Xavier Beauvois and Étienne Comar
The Way (2011), Directed by Emilio Estevez, Written by...
Theological Reflections on Cloning:Â Personhood and Reproduction
(Some may not agree with all of Dr. Alexander Lozano's conclusions, but his analysis of the issue of ensoulment and cloning is certainly an...
Christmas—The Fullness of Love
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full....
Little Black Lives—Do They Matter?
Anyone who believes that God is the Author of all life and loves us unconditionally (and even many who don’t believe this) would instinctively...
The King and Serpent in the Desert: The Fourth Sunday of Lent
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that whoever believes in...
Tolkien, Discernment, and Vocation in The Lord of the Rings
The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, issued from the Second Vatican Council, emphasized the point that every person has a vocation to...
Sympathetic Nature
MANY PASSAGES in Scripture, both the Old and the New Testaments, are disconcertingly violent, as in today’s Gospel:
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom...
The Pope and the Death Penalty
At the climax of Luke’s passion narrative, we see Jesus hanging between two criminals. One of the criminals mocks Jesus, but the other responds,...
