Logicians have identified – and demolished – what they term a “circular argument.” Basically, to propose an example, a circular…

Peter Paul Rubens was a Catholic painter. He was not the most Catholic of Catholic painters, but he was likely…

It’s often been said that our civilization is based on a kind of historical trinity – Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome…

I grew up in a secular household. What’s worse, my parents demanded I attend church – a Methodist church –…

As the first full week of the final session of the Synod on Synodality begins today, little is emerging that…

Sin, corporate sin, was abundantly confessed this past week during an opening penitential rite for the synod in Rome. And…

As the second (and final?) session of the Synod on Synodality opens today, many people are still asking: What is…

It was originally called “The City of Little Men,” when the Irish-born Fr. Edward J. Flanagan founded the refuge for…

A sometimes-tart critic of this site – a self-described atheist who reads this page regularly for reasons unknown – came…

Among the many abrupt twists and turns in our online-driven, unstable social life, one of the oddest is the recent…