On October 28, 312 the Roman emperor Constantine, 32, faced a challenge to his rulership of the Empire.  His father, Caesar Constantius had died and Constantine had been proclaimed Caesar Augustus by the armies he was leading.  But he was…

On September 22, 1290 Bilbo Baggins was born.  The year given for his birth, of course, is in Shire Reckoning: The Shire being that happy part of Middle-Earth inhabited by those sensible and unpretentious folk called “Hobbits.”
To that salt-of-the-earth…

In Chile they have started drilling operations to rescue thirty-three miners trapped after the August 5th collapse of the main exit tunnel of the San Jose gold and copper mine.
Thirty-three, 33.
Sometimes the Holy Trinity is very subtle.
This…

Yesterday I started laying the ground work for a response to the following letter.  Today my response will be directly to this writer:
I read with great interest your posts of a year ago on the subject of deception and…

I once had an interesting debate regarding “sola scriptura” with a Protestant apologist. I insisted scripturally and historically on the Catholic position that 1. Scripture could not interpret itself anymore than it could read itself and 2. that the task…

Recent initiatives among Christian conservatives to craft and present to the country a proposal for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) fly in the face of the supposedly conservative hard line  position of “round ‘em up and ship ‘em back.” In spite…

The email to the editors from Chris G_____ bore the subject line: “Canon III — On the Sacrifice of the Mass.”  Not as I first assumed, an article submission, it was a Protestant attempt to catechize us here at CE.…

Is there anything wrong with a Catholic celebrating the summer solstice, or the winter solstice, or the equinoxes of spring and fall?

Mention “theology” and you may have just opened up a can of worms. Many Christians are afraid of theology; some are almost hostile. With Trinity Sunday coming up, we might explore why that is and how we can answer some…

This last Sunday in most Catholic parishes in the United States, the 2nd collection was for the Catholic Communication Campaign.  Half of the money collected stays in each respective diocese and the rest goes to national projects. The USCCB explanation…