Orthodoxy
Claiming the High Ground
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Recent popes have emphasized that youth won’t even listen to teachers unless they are first and foremost witnesses. And yet, at the same time, our society has a perverse desire to see good people fall from grace. Take the moral high ground and you become a target. Our zeal for the truth of Jesus Christ [...]
Aristotle, Meet Aquinas
Monday, January 28th, 2008Today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, who is not only my confirmation patron but also my hero. My wife commissioned a lovely portrait of him that hangs in our living room. Aquinas has been victimized in some ways by his success; his writings became so influential in the time between Trent and Vatican [...]
Vatican II is a home game
Sunday, September 9th, 2007Over a decade ago I took a course from Scott Hahn where he posed an elaborate question about responding to a Protestant interpretation of a passage from Paul’s Letter to the Romans.
Bishop Bruskewitz is not the problem
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007Yesterday at www.cuf.org , I received this question from a deacon in Southern California: “I notice that the Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska is on your advisory board. As I understand it, he has declined to cooperate with the audit concerning the steps being taken to protect our children. Could you explain his refusal and why [...]
Why united for the faith?
Thursday, June 28th, 2007After all, there are many important causes to rally around right now. Why not Catholics United for the Right to Life? Catholics United for Social Justice? Catholics United for Clean Air? Catholics United for Peace? Catholics United for Liturgical Reverence? These and many other causes are eminently worthwhile, but CUF’s mission is even more fundamental, [...]
Is CUF an activist organization?
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Yes and no. We’ve been known as a leading orthodox voice in the Church for nearly four decades. Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa, one of our episcopal advisors, put it this way a couple years ago: “Proclaiming Christ to every generation is what CUF has been doing for the past 35 years. Loyal to the [...]