If you are looking for some holiday reading, I have an article published this morning in Crisis magazine, on artificial intelligence. Peruse as you will, and comments are always, or almost always, welcome. Peace and joy to all.
Blogs
The Sad Interview with Jean Vanier Supporting Medical Aid in Dying
Alas, the capitulations continue. A few days ago, I listened on the CBC to an interview with the great Jean Vanier, the founder of L’Arche, which cares for severely handicapped and developmentally challenged people, heroic work that I could scarcely consider doing. I visited the L’Arche in Inverness, Scotland in 2003, when two of my[…]
The True Myth: Easter as the Greatest Story Ever Told
Human beings have always been story-tellers. Since the earliest days, we have striven to express our new-found ability to understand reality and interact more fully with the world around us. We alone among Creation were given that sublime combination of intelligence and emotions to enable us to seek out the truth and knowingly revel in[…]
Not Peace but a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam
Robert Spencer, Not Peace but a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam. San Diego: Catholic Answers, 2013, p.251. By Scott Ventureyra Robert Spencer is perhaps the most vocal Catholic critic of Islam and violent jihadism. He has authored various works critical of both Islam and the prophet Muhammad. He is also the founder[…]
5th. Sunday of Easter: Abide in Me as I abide in you
Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abide in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. (Jn. 15:4). In today’s Gospel reading, Our Lord speaks of the reality of our union with Him as a mutual indwelling (perichoresis). Abide in[…]
Follow with response and reflection
I am a faithful Catholic and a faithful Catholic journalist, meaning that while much of my writing and broadcasting has no direct connection with the Church, whenever it does I am duty-bound to defend and explain Catholic teaching and the Holy Father. And never before have we Catholics in media been so called upon to[…]
A Church reacting well, wisely, and properly
We haven’t heard very much about the so-called clergy abuse crisis recently, but you can be sure that if the mainstream media manages to find some obscure, outdated case they will gleefully splash it on their soiled canvas. Thing is, there is actually a great deal to report, and it’s all good news. In the[…]
Christmas reflections
House of Bread. Bethlehem. The place where He was born. It may not have been in a stable and it was likely not in December, but what matters is less where it happened than that it happened. And it most certainly did. Magic enters the world in the form of a babe, the most innocent[…]
Goodness from around the web..
Highlight of the week: All Hipsters Eventually Become Catholic by Edmund Mitchell “The new hipster loves going to daily Mass at his parish, where the pews are filled with no one under the age of 50. He did it before it was cool.” Of note: “Aaron” (video) A wonderful pro-life short film. Alice von Hildebrand[…]
The future of Catholicism
When a publisher telephones and asks for a new book, written quickly, there is only one response: a high- pitched, only partly controlled “yes.” That the publisher is Random House, who has published my last two books so well and successfully, only emphasizes the experience. I agreed, I wrote it, they and I are pleased[…]