What Makes Catholics Different from Episcopalians?

5-29-2013 · Yes, Virginia, there are people who call themselves Episcopalians, and no, they are not the same as Roman Catholics. The Episcopalians like to think themselves as better than the Catholics, because they do not have to…

Jurgen Liias’s Move to Rome: A Spiritual Autobiography

5-23-2013 · Here’s another man’s thoughts about his church search. Obviously, I disagree with his foundational assumption which is that Rome’s assertions about its identity as “one true church”…

Pope Canonizes Saints, Reporter Gets the Vapors (UPDATED)

5-13-2013 · NBC News today provides a wonderful example pf why the mainstream media should not be trusted with religion stories. Seems Pope Francis held a canonization Sunday as the Roman Catholic Church recognized…

Just A Little Flashback: William McKeachie on the Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI

4-21-2013 · Having had a few weeks to digest the rise of Pope Francis, I can’t help but look back with even greater fondness on Benedict. From T19, where there is more: Half a…

Beware the Christians

4-8-2013 · Sign of the times? A U.S. Army training instructor giving a training brief on “extremism” to an Army Reserve unit in Pennsylvania has labeled Evangelical Christianity and Roman Catholicism as examples of religious…

Chesterton on the Meaning and Significance of Easter

3-31-2013 · A Chesterton reading for Easter from The Everlasting Man (1925), Part 2, ch. 3 (“The Strangest Story in the World”): The poor to whom he preached the good news, the common people who heard him…

The @UKOrdinariate responds to the “anecdotal report” of Pope Francis’ negative view

3-27-2013 · I thought it intriguing—though certainly unsurprising—that Ordinariate-officialdom responded so swiftly to Archbishop Venables’ anecdotes about Pope Francis. From the outside looking in…

The First American Pope

3-27-2013 · This is fascinating analysis over at NRO; don’t miss the analysis of the politics behind Bergoglio’s election, not excerpted below—most intriguing. A true man of God. The wheelchair-bound beggar at the corner…

Moronic Questions and the Reporters Who Ask Them

3-19-2013 · I’m not sure which is dumber–the fact that a member of the State Department press corps actually asked about this, or that State spokesperson Victoria Nuland seemed to take the…

Papal Fantasy

3-18-2013 · Life News reports that Vice President Joe Biden has made his presence at Pope Francis’ Inaugural Mass the subject of his latest outbreak of foot-in-mouth. Now, Biden has said he plans…