say, “Yes!” The better question may be, however: Can a bad person make it to Heaven? The Lord alone knows…

The Cloud of Unknowing is probably the most popular mystical treatise in English, a sort of bestseller when it was…

high-placed Cardinal complained this past week that some people – particularly some traditional Catholics – are hoping that Pope Francis…

COSTARD O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for…

An ancient Greek legend tells of Alexander the Great confronting the Gordian Knot, which no one could untie. An oracle…

The word “plagiarism” comes from the Latin plagiarius, meaning “kidnapper.” I’ve known writers who’ve referred to a book or a…

sometimes wonder whether Thomas Aquinas, whose feast is today, hasn’t been ill-served by being so universally praised – and therefore…

This is a red-letter day for the United States of America. We come to the end of a deeply divided,…

Before he leaves office, Joe Biden will not be meeting with Pope Francis as planned. The Los Angeles wildfires put…

don’t make any great claim to virtue, but one vice that I’ve (mostly) avoided is the itch to predict the…