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In Praise of Notre Dame’s John Cavadini
Who is Notre Dame’s MVP? I don’t mean the Most Valuable Player on the football team. I mean the Most Valuable Professor on the faculty. If there is any justice on earth, John Cavadini deserves that honor. At a time when many complain of poor…
How to be a Dhimmi
In late July, some 60,000 migrants surged into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. The migrants were mainly young males. And since 99 percent of Moroccans practice Islam, most were almost certainly Muslim. Ceuta is not a…
Cathedrals Old and New – The Catholic Thing
On a trip back home to Southern California, I had the opportunity to visit the church of my baptism, my “mother church,” as they say. When I became Catholic at the age of twelve, in April 1976, Holy Family, in the city of Orange, had just the…
Vouchers and Vaccines – The Catholic Thing
The state of Florida is threatening to pull over a billion dollars of school choice funds from Catholic schools because those schools refuse to admit unvaccinated children in obedience to the policy of the Florida Catholic Conference. The…
Marriage Advice – The Catholic Thing
Next week, my wife and I will celebrate our 20th anniversary. We were just out of high school when we first met – barely a year older than our oldest daughter is now. It’s enough to give even a somewhat cynical middle-aged man a case of…
Marriage Advice – The Catholic Thing
Next week, my wife and I will celebrate our 20th anniversary. We were just out of high school when we first met – barely a year older than our oldest daughter is now. It’s enough to give even a somewhat cynical middle-aged man a case of…
The Transfiguration: Why Christ Gave His Disciples Beauty
Today, August 6, the Feast of the Transfiguration, commemorates one of the most mysterious moments in Christ’s public ministry. Ascending Mount Tabor with Peter, James, and John, Jesus is transfigured before them. His face shines “like the sun,”…
Freedom from (Airline) Religion – The Catholic Thing
Earlier this month, Orlando-based evangelist and social media influencer Whitney Lynn posted a video of herself offering a brief preaching session as passengers prepared to debark an airplane in San Diego. Below the clip – in which most people…
Lead Us Not Into Temptation
There was a bit of a kerfuffle a few years back over the phrase in the Our Father: “Lead us not into temptation.” It was suggested that the phrase be changed to “do not let us fall into temptation,” reasoning that the original wording…
The Way Not Taken – The Catholic Thing
This is the first summer in quite a while that circumstances have prevented me from taking a walking pilgrimage, usually something like the Camino de Compostela (here) or the Via Francigena (which nearly killed me a few years ago between the…