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Pro Life People Should Not Be Anti-Muslim

(Pope Francis with the Egyptian Imam of al-Azhar University, Sheik Ahmad el-Tayeb) Ok. I confess to really not understanding why a pro-life site is spewing anti-Muslim prejudice. See https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/muslim-takeover-of-europe-is-biggest-story-of-our-time-and-nobody-knows-it As a pro-life person, I must object. I hope other pro-life people will follow suit. Let me be clear-I am not condemning pro life organizations en masse. … [Read more…]

I Interview Me on My Book, “Lights in the Darkness”

Self-Interview on “Lights in the Darkness: Exploring Catholic Themes   in Twelve Extraordinary Films”          This interview is intended to get at questions by a special interviewer with intimate knowledge of the book. If you want to see more information on my book or to buy it go to: http://wipfandstock.com/lights-in-the-darkness.html. Q: Why Did … [Read more…]

Does Saint Thomas Aquinas Support the Trump Travel Ban?

Catholics in the United States are often far too eager to align themselves with either the Democrat or Republican parties or with liberal or conservative ideologies. As a result, we too often analyze public policies primarily through our political or ideological lenses. The Church, over the millennia, has erred quite a few times by backing … [Read more…]

Civility Anyone?

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds… Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address There are complaints now of a lack of civility in the United … [Read more…]

Is Hope Still Alive This Christmas?

It is Advent, a season of new beginnings and new hopes. But, the world seems to increasingly be in the grip of a very old and bitter battle between hope and despair. Who will win? On the despair side, our world is putting on full display its brokenness. In Aleppo, Syria, people have been trying … [Read more…]

Solidarity of Catholics with Jews

Sometimes, events come together in strange and important ways. I had just received the article below written by Rabbi David Blumenthal, a distinguished professor at Emory University, in honor of his friend who recently died, the late Father Benedict Groeschel. This piece is a testament to the fruits born of interfaith exchanges on the personal … [Read more…]

Is the Internet Killing Religion?

A provocative and much discussed article in the MIT Technology Review, “How the Internet is Taking Away America’s Religion” reviews an analysis by the computer science professor, Dr. Allen B. Downey, suggesting that there is a connection between the introduction and rapid expansion of the Internet and a concurrently steep increase in those claiming no … [Read more…]

The Doctor Is In

 THE DOCTOR IS IN I wrote this piece in celebration of the feast day of Saint Thomas Aquinas. This great thirteenth century Dominican friar was a man who reflected deeply about life His reflections highlight that greatest of the cardinal virtues, that of wisdom. Wisdom, or prudence as Saint Thomas might have put it, means … [Read more…]