The Elizabethan Age Revisited

As part of my relaxing summer, I read Come Rack! Come Rope!* by Robert Hugh Benson — a riveting tale set in Elizabethan England, where recusant Catholics are pressured to submit to their sovereign in matters of faith. The queen… Read More

Racks and Ruin

Now, my sisters in Christ, I probably don’t need to tell you that womanhood is in a state of crisis. The sexual revolution has led us down a path of utilitarian nonsense into loneliness, disease and death. Instead of liberating… Read More

Women and Order, Justice and Peace

Pope Benedict has appointed a lay woman, Flaminia Giovanelli, as a superior in one of its dicasteries, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Each dicastery is headed by a prefect (usually a cardinal or archbishop), assisted by a secretary… Read More

Of Burqas and Bridges: An Appeal to Human Dignity

A burning issue in France right now is whether women should be allowed to wear the burqa — a complete face-veil considered obligatory by some Muslims for the sake of modesty. Non-Muslims may be confused about a variety of terms… Read More

Comparing God and Allah – Fundamental Considerations

After two weeks of plunging into the waters of the Koran, I can finally come up for air — fresh air. After taking time to plow through the repetitive and garbled “revelations” given to Muhammad in the name of Allah,… Read More

We No Longer Live in a 9-10 World: The Ongoing Saga of Rifqa Bary, Part Two

If we step into the Way Back Machine to the year 1988, we might recall the enormous uproar concerning an author named Salmon Rushdie. He became a household word because of his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses , in which… Read More

A Tenacious Convert on the Run: the Ongoing Saga of Rifqa Bary, Part One

When a teenager runs away from home, jumps on a cross-country bus and ends up in a juvenile detention center in a distant state, one might surmise that there were a combination of drugs, rebellion and a forbidden love interest… Read More

“Jerusalem, Our Mother”

On a recent pilgrimage, my daughter and I took a detour to see if we could find the hospital in which I was born. The map was confusing, the traffic was pressing and we waived off for lunch. There, over… Read More

“After the Washing Up”

In my earliest years, I lived with my grandparents on a postage stamp-sized lot in a large steel city. Our working class neighborhood housed first- and second-generation immigrants, mostly from Europe, who presided over orderly homes, clean-swept streets and trimmed… Read More

The Naked Truth

Despite vehement protests against religious bodies that “interfere” with intimate personal choices, public figures love to use snippets of scripture or doctrine that seem to lend credence to their outlandish behavior. Usually, such attempts at justification prove their shallow understanding… Read More

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