The evangelical Protestant “megachurch” that I attended in high school was filled with former Catholics. Many of whom had been specifically targeted and proselytized by evangelicals who encouraged them to make a personal decision for […]
When I was an evangelical, we classified Mormonism as not authentically Christian. After all, it rejects the Trinity, one of the most foundational of Christian doctrines since the early centuries of Christianity, and affirms alternative […]
There is no Bonaventurian school named after the Franciscan theologian St. Bonaventure, a Doctor of the Church known for both his theological and spiritual writings. Nor is there an Anselmian theological school to honor St. […]
Is Catholicism still acceptable to the technocratic elites of our secular, post-Christian age? Certainly not the Catholic claim to uniquely know and safeguard absolute truth on faith and morals. Nor in the Catholic Church’s repudiation […]
That the Reformation was a revolution is not a new idea. Centuries before contemporary scholars Brad S. Gregory or Patrick J. Deneen assessed the Reformation as an accelerant for modern secularism, individualism, and materialism, thinkers […]
After college, I was a member of a small, traditionalist Presbyterian church in my native Northern Virginia. Most everyone was politically conservative, and there were few formally endorsed ministries because, church leadership argued, only ecclesial […]
When my wife and I moved our young family to Thailand almost ten years ago, the most obvious choice for our church was an English-speaking Redemptorist parish in downtown Bangkok, a stone’s throw from the […]
A Catholic friend of mine recently had a supervisor who criticized him for his tendency to disregard underperforming colleagues with a frankness others found hurtful or embarrassing. “He’s a Christian,” the supervisor said. “He’s supposed […]
What movies do you think best encapsulate Catholic themes or ideas? What favorite movies of yours do you think effectively represent an important aspect of Catholic teaching? Buy me a beer and I’ll be happy […]
Joseph Ratzinger didn’t want to be pope. He didn’t even want to be a bishop. When, in 1977, the apostolic nuncio informed him of his appointment as archbishop of Munich and Freising, he first requested […]
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