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Recently, Rod Dreher posed a question about what a Catholic is to do when he thinks a Magisterial authority has made some error of fact concerning, say, science, politics, or economics. Dreher’s post concerns the question of whether some bishops are mistaken to think morning-after pills are abortifacient, but it could just

One of the curious paradoxes of our time is summed up in the saying, “Scratch an atheist, find a fundamentalist.” So often, atheists and fundamentalists don’t disagree about things so much as they disagree about whether the things they agree on are good or bad. Atheists and fundamentalists agree, for

As our Lord himself showed on the Emmaus Road, Scripture is ultimately about him. But the curious thing is, this vast panorama of parted seas, plagues, kings, vineyards, whirlwinds, floating axeheads, blessings, curses, patriarchs, prostitutes, assassins, prophets, laws, peasants, sages, lions and hippopotami does not immediately suggest to us just