Of Other Things

Among the subjects of debate and ostensible controversy that arose during the 2014 Synod on the Family and continue in its wake, one in particular captured my attention: whether doctrine can change or develop. The answer is: it certainly does develop. It always has.One of the synod participants, Car

The play ‘Grand Concourse’ refuses to simplify the cause or cure for spiritual desolation.

Though it might sound like a whodunit, ‘Calvary’ feels more like the movie version of what Percy called a ‘philosophical novel.’

The promises made by the evangelizers of modern diets border on salvific.

Both saints and celebrities are often reduced to mere ideas or idols, avatars of their flesh and blood bodies.

Augustine’s vision of life before the Fall looks a lot like world in which ‘The Giver’ opens.

The Internet seems designed to make the job of modern e-parenting virtually impossible.

I can pass thousands of people without anyone saying a single word to me.