Not Peace but a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam
Robert Spencer, Not Peace but a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam. San Diego: Catholic Answers, 2013, p.251.
By Scott Ventureyra
Robert Spencer is...
“Verso L ’Alto” – A Meditation on the Hidden Sanctity of Pier Giorgio Frassati
The Italian Alps — that formidable stretch of Europe’s great mountain arc — rise in dramatic splendour above the landscape that so enduringly shaped...
Lookin’ for Love…
I thought it strikingly ridiculous, during my morning "scroll" the other day, when I came across two hundred pictures of an acquaintances’ acquaintance and...
The Longing Beneath the Roles: Kilmer, the Catechism, and the Search for God
The cinematic roles of Val Kilmer - who died April 1st, 2025 at the age of 65 after a long cinematic career - did...
Scandals There will Be, but Have Peace…
Paula Adamick has a take on a powerful new book by Jennifer Roback Morse, 'The Sexual State', outlining the government's role in aiding, abetting...
The God of Abraham, Sodom and Canada
Abraham’s dialogue with God in yesterday’s Sunday reading still speaks to us four millennia onwards. Indeed, the principle is timeless, that God’s justice –...
The craziness of love
A few months ago, my Herbalist folded her hands in her lap and looked at me meditatively. I have been going to her for...
The future of Catholicism
When a publisher telephones and asks for a new book, written quickly, there is only one response: a high- pitched, only partly controlled “yes.”...
People are people
Did anyone watch the Boston bombing news with great interest? Were you glued to updates and bulletins, carefully checking the suspects’ faces and watching...
Kermit
I’ve been walking around the last few days with the name "Kermit" in my head and vomit close to the surface. You almost have...
