When I tell people I recently wrote a book critiquing liberal Catholicism, I sometimes get this reply: “I’m not a liberal Catholic or a conservative Catholic. I’m just a Catholic.” Are these made-up ...

In light of recent debates surrounding the actions of the Israeli government, many Catholics hear about “Zionism” and that Catholics “must be Zionists” or “can’t be Zionists.” But in order to see if ...

Laetare Sunday , the fourth, or middle, Sunday of Lent, so called from the first words of the Introit at Mass, “Laetare Jerusalem“—”Rejoice, O Jerusalem“. During the first six or seven centuries the ...

One of the most common questions about biblical interpretation is how much of the Bible ought to be taken “literally.” That’s a tricky question to answer, because the word literal actually has two ...

I can imagine the devil sitting in his office, at the top of the highest skyscraper on hell’s equivalent of Madison Avenue, weighing an ad campaign. Straightforward. Maybe a little boring. Could be ...

The public, worldwide conversation about UFOs (also known as UAP) has become more widespread and mainstream in recent years. It presents Catholics with a challenge: Does the Church teach that angels ...

The Catholic conquistador Hernán Cortés occupies a preeminent place in the modern pantheon of villainous Catholic personages. It is common to find the explorer in lists of the “most brutal” ...

I was recently presented with a topic about which I had never given much thought: someone taking a long time for confession, resulting in other people unable to receive the sacrament because the ...

Not everyone in the scholarly community has interpreted the Bible’s vision of the “woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars” (Rev 12:1) in the ...

In the first part of my series on the biblical roots of the Mass, we examined how Jesus’ one sacrifice of Calvary didn’t end on the cross, but rather culminated in everlasting glory in the heavenly ...

If you bring up the topic of the soul, it’s not uncommon for folks to give you a blank stare. And even if folks do have something to say about it, they often think of it as some separate thing in us ...

The triumvirate of complaints about the Bible from atheists typically consists of denouncing its science, denouncing its God, and denouncing its morality. Here we’ll handle a classic moral objection: ...