It is ironic that the scintillating Graeco-Syrian Saint Luke was martyred, according to tradition, in Boeotia, a humid and swampy part of central Greece whose people were said to be not interested in philosophy or much of anything beyond their…
secularism
Will the present whiff of secularist persecution be a help toward healing what ails American Catholics as a Church? Leaving aside predictions, I’ll only say: it may.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan has a flair for getting people’s attention. The Archbishop of…
“You do know that picture is funny?” he asked me, cautiously. “It” is a photo of a church sign I took and used as a photo essay feature called 1000 Words on my website.
Of course I know it’s funny!…
“Social issues.” It’s a squishy, equivocal term suited to a mentality ill at ease with the hard-edged implications of “moral issues” and “morality.” What implications? That there are definite moral truths that show some things to be always and everywhere…
