Finally, the Church has spoken authoritatively on Holy Love Ministries and its 83-acre site of Maranatha Spring and Shrine in Ohio. Despite all the usual Catholic trappings — chapel, statues, rosaries and religious bookstore, not to mention the throngs from…

G.K. Chesterton once wittily advised, “Don’t be so open minded your brains fall out.” This comment recently came to mind when reflecting on the general response to the infusion of the occult into our culture. For some time now we have witnessed…

Hell is clearly the biggest loser in the Four Last Things Popularity Poll. If there were anything in the Tradition we could get rid of, this would obviously be the thought of everlasting damnation.

The ancient Catholic truth about Hell should…

One quiet evening, I decided to call my brother to ask how his new teaching position as a religion teacher was going. His first position took him to an all-boy’s Catholic high school in Southern California. After an initial pause…

How would our lives be different if we lived 2,000 years ago and actually got to witness Jesus perform miracles or had the chance to meet Him personally? Would our faith be greater? Would we trust Him more? In today’s hectic world, many…

Dr. George Schroeder, MD, MS, FACEP, FAAUCM, is a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and the executive director of medical affairs for the American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine. He…

In an age of Sam Harris’ The End of Faith and Christopher Hitchens’ God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything , it might be considered a minor miracle when an artist-observer-seeker in our day has the depth, courage and intellectual honesty…

What do Fort Hood, Vatican II and Regensburg have in common? More than you might think.

As details continue to emerge surrounding last week’s massacre at Fort Hood, which wounded nearly  three dozen people and left thirteen others dead, the consequences…

The second of what the Catholic tradition calls the “Four Last Things” is Judgment.

Judgment is about as popular a concept as root canals. And yet the desire for judgment never really goes away in the human soul. Every other episode…

Christopher West appeared on Nightline last May and fervid demarcation resulted. Somewhat contrary sides took turns criticizing and defending West’s popular efforts in interpreting John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. Now that West himself speaks , we no longer have to…