Brad Miner


Europe’s Elections: Right, But Not Far

It’s worth paying careful attention to the significant gains recently by so-called “hard right” parties in the European elections. They…

Pope Francis’ Truly Shocking Remark

No, it wasn’t his comment to the Italian bishops about frociaggine (“faggotry”), homosexual cliques in seminaries, which the Vatican felt…

The Pursuit of Happiness

Sociology is the softest of the sciences – according to sociological surveys – and its practitioners, with noteworthy exceptions, largely…

‘Sacred Service’ at the National WWI Museum

“A good chaplain is as valuable as a good general.” – British field marshal Sir Douglas Haig, 1915 Growing up…

Unmaking a Mess

faithful Catholic finds him or herself in a complicated situation these days. It’s not just the age-old opposition from “the…

‘Keane’ on Rupnik

Father Marko Rupnik’s work reminds me of the art attributed to Walter Keane, the American artist who was popular in…

Some Lessons from the Great Pagans

I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with pagans lately. Not the modern, self-indulgent, falsely idealistic, entitled, uninteresting kind…

Scuffles in Brussels

So, I was in Rome recently chasing down information for a book and noticed that, at the time I’d be…

Holy Days of Obligation

We need to talk about something, and I’ve already told you what it is above. Here are the remaining obligatory…

A Dignity Still to be Determined

Reading the Declaration on Human Dignity (“Infinite Dignity”), issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) yesterday,…