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• I went to Mass and a '60s/70s rock concert broke out
• "I'm Catholic, Staunchly Anti-Racist, and Support David Duke"
• The Messy, Messy Business of Birth Control
• The Five Non-Negotiables
• Benedict on St. Paul and the historical figure of Christ
• Fr. McBrien and the mythological "one issue bishops"
• The anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto (and of the poem "Lepanto")
• Did Father Hesburgh utter heresy?
• The Restless, Whig Evangelicals
• "Bride" and "Groom" making a comeback in California
• 2,000,000
• New York Bishops: "not every issue is of equal moral gravity..."
• No more Catholic Charities adoptions in San Francisco
• Bishop Martino of Scranton's Respect Life Pastoral Letter
• Bishop Robert W. Finn on Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) and its supporters
• Benedict on St. Paul and Christian liberty
• And Much More!
• Message On a Bottle | Carl E. Olson | Can wine be used to proclaim the Gospel? Tim Busch
of Trinitas Cellars thinks so.
• The Ignatius Press Book Meme Carl E. Olson | A little quiz.
• Selections from Lumina | New Lumina | Adrienne von Speyr | Excerpts from a beautiful
little book of brief meditations on the love of God by the Swiss spiritual writer, mystic and medical doctor von Speyr.
• Benedict in Paris: "Logos is among us." | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | Why did
Benedict give his address, "On the Roots of European Culture," in a revamped College that owes its origin to St. Bernard of Clairvaux?
• The Meaning of Dogma | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | Catholicism has always
taken dogmatic statements seriously because it realizes that the failure to state the truth properly often leads to error.
• China's Struggling Catholics: A Second Report on the Church in Beijing | Anthony E. Clark | A
report on three of the major Catholic churches in the capital of China and the formidable challenges faced by Catholics there.
• Beauty and the Sacred | Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J. | "A person
deprived of beauty is like a person deprived of love. A person cannot attain happiness without beauty--sensible, intellectual or religious."
• Fessio and Pearce Talk About Shakespeare | Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. and Joseph Pearce | A video of the founder and editor of Ignatius Press
interviewing the author of The Quest for Shakespeare.
• The Meaning and Purpose of Marriage | Alice von Hildebrand |
The beauty of the marital embrace is meant to benefit not only the spouses themselves but all those related to them.
• Father Jenkins' "Creative Contextualization" | Thomas S. Hibbs |
A look at the fallout from Notre Dame president Father John Jenkins' decision to keep The Vagina
Monologues on the Notre Dame campus.
• Where the Laborers are Few | Jeff Ziegler | A special report
about statistics relating to seminarians and vocations to the priesthood in Europe, Latin America, the U.S., and Canada.
• The Truth About Families | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | A review of Jennifer Roback Morse's book, Love and Economics.
• Are Sen. Biden's Views on Abortion "Totally Consistent with Catholic Social Doctrine"? | Carl E.
Olson | Not even close, according to official Catholic social teachings.
• From "The Appeal to Antiquity" | Adrian Fortescue | An excerpt from the opening
chapter of The Early Papacy to the Synod of Chalcedon in 451.
• Denys the Areopagite and the Divine Light | Carl E. Olson | An audio interview with Dr. William Riordan, author of
Divine Light: The Theology of Denys the Areopagite.
• The Beijing Invitation | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | The Olympics remind us that many governments see religion as
something to be controlled and persecuted.
• China's Thriving Catholics: A Report From Beijing's South Cathedral | Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. | A report on a
recent visit to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, one of Beijing's most beautiful churches.
• What's a "Pretend Ex-Boyfriend"? | Mary Beth Bonacci | It's never too early to start teaching little girls about the difference between a boyfriend and a husband.
• Against What Do We Fight? On Cardinal Dias at Lambeth | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | What did Ivan Cardinal Dias,
head of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, say Lambeth?
• The Introduction to Prodigal Daughters: Catholic Women Come Home to the Church |
Donna Steichen | The introduction to stories of former radical feminists who reconciled with the Church.
• The Beginnings | Vernon Johnson | Chapter One of
One Lord, One Faith.
• The Catechism: Proclamation and Pedagogy | Petroc Willey, Ph.D., S.T.L., Pierre de Cointet,
and Barbara Morgan
• Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Death: Why John Paul II Was Right | Dr. Raymond Dennehy
• Who Is "The Universe" And Why Does It Care What I Think? | Mary Beth Bonacci
• Introduction to The Gift of Infallibility | Rev. James T. O'Connor
• Discerning What Is Christian | Margaret M. Turek
• Priests of the Domestic Church: A Father's Day Homily | Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers
• Jesus in the Gospel of Luke | Christoph Cardinal Schönborn
• Pope Benedict XVI, Theologian of Joy | Monsignor Joseph Murphy
• Introduction to Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's God's Word:
Scripture, Tradition, Office | Peter Hünermann and Thomas Södin
• The Renewal of Vatican II: Distractions and
Distortions | Douglas Bushman, S.T.L.
• "Introduction to Christianity": Yesterday, Today,
and Tomorrow | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
• Chopra's Christ: The Mythical Creation of a New Age
Panthevangelist | Carl E. Olson
• Chesterton and Orthodoxy: An Insight Podcast | Dale Ahlquist
• Chesterton and the "Paradoxy" of Orthodoxy |
Carl E. Olson
• The Emancipation of Domesticity | G.K. Chesterton
• Experience, Reason, and Authority in the Apologetics of Ronald
Knox | Fr. Milton Walsh
• St. Thomas and St. Francis | G.K. Chesterton
• Mary and the Convert | G.K. Chesterton
• ChesterBelloc | Dr. Ralph McInerny
• Seeing With the Eyes of G.K. Chesterton | An Interview with Dale Ahlquist
• Recovering The Lost Art of Common Sense | Dale Ahlquist
• The Life and Theme of G.K. Chesterton | Fr. Randall Paine
• The Inquisitions of History: The Mythology and the
Reality | Rev. Brian Van Hove, S.J.
• Chapter 1 of Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau | Fr. Jean Bernard
• Chapter 1 of The Living Wood: Saint Helena and the Emperor
Constantine (A Novel) | Louis de Wohl
• Traveling With the Apostolic Fathers | An Interview with
Steve Ray
• Rediscovering Christopher Dawson | Brad Birzer
• On Writing A History of Christianity in China | Fr.
Jean-Pierre Charbonnier
• St. Ignatius of Antioch and the Early Church | Kenneth Whitehead
• Walking In the Footsteps of Saint Paul | Carl E. Olson and Steve Ray
• The Monsignor and the Don | An Interview with Fr. Milton Walsh
• From Catholicism to Radical Feminism and Back | An interview with Lorraine V. Murray
• Hell on Earth and the Hope of Heaven | An interview with Michael O'Brien
• William P. Clark: The Quiet Catholic Who Changed the World |
An interview with Paul Kengor
• "Jews Demand Signs" | An Interview
with Roy Schoeman
• Why Are There So Many Ugly Churches? | An interview with
Moyra Doorly
• Going Deeper Into the Old Testament | Interview with
Aidan Nichols, O.P.
• Reform or Return? An Interview with Rev. Thomas M.
Kocik
• The Theological Genius of Joseph Ratzinger | An
Interview with Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, S.V.D.
• Ultimate Battles
• Will To Truth: On the Death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• On The Risk of Listening
• "The Agent of Truth on the Margin of the World"
• "The Reality of God": Benedict XVI on the Trinity
• Ratzinger's Faith and Reason
• Will the Real Shakespeare Please Stand Up? | Joseph Pearce
• Finding Shakespeare and Reclaiming the Classics | An interview with Joseph Pearce
• ID vs. "Big Science"--On The Big Screen | Carl E. Olson
• Pornography, Electronic Media
and Priestly Formation | Sister Marysia Weber, R.S.M., D.O.
• Dawkins' Delusions | An interview with Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P.
• Opening pages of Island of the World | Michael O'Brien
• The Underpopulation Problem | Michael J. Miller
• Elections and the Parish | Fr. Frank Pavone
• What I Learned From Henry Morgentaler | Carl E. Olson
• The Movement that Won't Die | Elenor K. Schoen
• Roman Catholics for Obama '08 |
Paul Kengor
• Flawed History, Flawed Decision | Fr. Ralph Wright, O.S.B.
• The Church Betrayed? |
Germain Grisez
• Warning: This Is a Dangerous Book | Lorraine
V. Murray
• A Genuine Conversion or Act of
Perjury? | Joanna Bogle
• Priestly Vocations in America | Jeff Ziegler
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G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the finest Christian authors and apologists
of the past two hundred years. Raised as an agnostic, he embraced Christianity as a young man, ultimately entering the Catholic Church
in 1922. He wrote hundreds of essays, as well as novels, short stories, poetry, apologetics, literary
criticism, and nearly everything else imaginable. Dale Ahlquist, president and co-founder of the American
Chesterton Society and author of
G.K Chesterton: Apostle of Common Sense, writes, "Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism,
history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology. His style is unmistakable, always marked
by humility, consistency, paradox, wit, and wonder. His writing remains as timely and as timeless
today as when it first appeared, even though much of it was published in throw away paper." Read more
about the life and work of this remarkable thinker, author, and apologist.
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Nothing To Hide: Secrecy, Communication and Communion in the Catholic Church
by Russell Shaw
Shaw, the former communications director for the U.S. Bishops, discusses the abuse of secrecy in the Church, the scandals it has caused and the serious
problem of mistrust that exists in the credibility of the Church. He is not concerned with the legitimate secrecy that is necessary to protect confidentiality and people's reputations, but
with the stifling, deadening misuse of secrecy that has done immense harm to communion and community in the Church in America. Shaw raises such questions as: What kind of Church do we want our Church to be, open or closed? What kind of Church should it be? And how much secrecy is compatible with having
such a Church? As Pope Benedict XVI has stated, "The consequence is clear: we cannot communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with one another." The Church is a communion, not a political
democracy, and thus openness and accountability are even more crucial for the life of the Church than they are in a democracy. In a talk he gave many years before he became the current Pope,
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had this to say about the reality of ecclesial communion: "Fellowship in the Body of Christ and receiving the Body of Christ means fellowship with one another. This
of its very nature includes mutual acceptance, giving and receiving on both sides, and readiness to share one's goods ... In this sense, the social question is given quite a central place
in the theological heart of the concept of communion." This is a beautiful vision of the Church. Shaw's aim in his book is to make a contribution to realizing this vision in the concrete circumstances
of the present day, by helping to end the culture of secrecy, especially within American Catholicism, and replacing the destructive culture with an open, accountable community of faith.
Read more about Nothing to Hide.
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