Anyone who reads this blog knows that I have little patience for attempting to run churches by business principles. That’s been weighed in the scale and found wanting every time it’s been attempted. Last evening, as I was prepping for an interview I was to conduct with a supply chain exp...

When I began to write this post, I looked for a dozen passages in the Scriptures that Christians in the West largely ignored in practice, despite mentally assenting to the truths contained therein. But what scared me as I delved into this was that far too many passages of the Scriptures are simply i...

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Tonight we continue our sermon series on “Questions about Jesus that they don’t want answered.� The text is the reading you heard from Matthew 15:1-20, the Pharisees question about traditions. Grace, mercy, and peace to y...

Icon of St. Francis of Assisi, a wonderful example of An Obedient Son of the Church & a Successful Reformer Discourse of Father Abbot Antoine Forgeot of Fontgombault abbey to the families in the neighborhood of Clear Creek, March 19, 2006. [We thank our fellow DFF apologist Bro. Carlos Antonio P...

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” —Mark 10:27 Read that verse again. Now I want to ask a question: Is it true? If any of us had to think even a split second about the answer, then something’s wrong....

"Sequela, following, is the most reasonable attitude before the Christian event." Fr. Luigi Giussani, Notes from the Assembly of CL Responsibles, November 1993 The new archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, related that the Papal Nuncio Pietro Sambi informed him of the Holy Father's choice, and tha...

What Adam Lacked from Tony Reinke @ Miscellanies Excerpt:"But this condition represents something big because it points to the one thing Adam could not possess in the Garden of Eden—certainty.... How can this be? How can a sinless man live with temporal uncertainty and a sinful man live with etern...

An absolutely amazing sermon that is right on target with what I believe the Holy Spirit has been teaching me over the past two weeks or so. Perfect timing. Enjoy. At Desiring God Excerpt: "This is where I get the image that prayer is a wartime walkie-talkie, not a domestic intercom. It exists for a...

King Herod heard about it, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him.” Others were saying, “He is Elijah”; still others, “He is a prophet like any of the prop...

In the lexicon of the English language, failure may no longer be an option. Instead, we English-speakers bring you fail. Not as to fail, but simply fail. (If you aren’t tracking with this, Slate has a fine article explaining this latest twist in the mother tongue.) Of course, being the the lov...