The Transfiguration is a unique event in the life of Jesus and appears in all three of the Synoptic Gospels I call it unique for a number of reasons 1 It is the one event in Jesus earthly ministry in the Synoptic Gospels in which Jesus glory is made manifest visually unless we include th

I haven rsquo t read the novels of E M Forster Like many people I suspect I saw the films but skipped the books Still I was taken in by Zadie Smith rsquo s review of ldquo The BBC Talks of E M Forster 1929-1960 rdquo in the New York Review of Books Forster like T S Eliot was the ho

Gordon Zahn and the danger of 'milieu Catholicism'

The European invasion, the return of Thomas Eakins, and a text from PBXVI

Ultimately, the solution to Africa's problems must come from within Africa.

Will World Youth Day Be a Wake-up Call? In what is often seen as one of the most intensely secular nations in the world, Australia received a wake-up call: the faith of the church on public display over the weeklong celebrations of World Youth Day. For young Catholics used to seeing a steady annual

Life is the first and most basic good of the human person

Spatulas, Yahoo and the conscience of a consumer

It is when the Communists are good that they are most dangerous. And the trouble with many Catholics is that they do not recognize this dangerous goodness but think of Communists as characters from E. Phillip Oppenheim’s international mystery novels. Not long ago a Catholic novel was published

Our readers respond to Kristin Shrader-Frechette