It was my pleasure to interview Mr. Ryan Grant, of Mediatrix Press, for my most recent Reconquest. Our topic was, “The Mass is a True Sacrifice,” for which Saint Robert Bellarmine’s On the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass provided … Continue reading
Category: Theology
Reply to David Albert Jones on Male Infant Circumcision
This article deserves an introduction, or at least an explanation. In December of 2016, I authored “Circumcision: An Acceptable Practice?,” which was edition 283 of my fortnightly Ad Rem. Around that time, I also interviewed Dr. David Lang on the same … Continue reading
My Preface to Father Leonard Feeney’s ‘Bread of Life’
Below is the Preface I wrote for the 2018 Edition of Father Leonard Feeney’s Bread of Life, published by Loreto Publications. Aside from my Preface and the book’s original material, this edition also boasts a Foreword by Mr. Charles Coulombe, … Continue reading
A Theological Review of the Amazon Synod, by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski
The video below is of a talk given by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, whose YouTube channel thus summarizes it: Catholics the world over have been disturbed, scandalized, and galvanized by the Amazon Synod of October 2019. Since a complete theological analysis … Continue reading
Yes, the Church IS Missionary: Brother André & Jonathan Arrington
Thanks once more to Mr. Steve Cunningham, of the Sensus Fidelium YouTube channel, for broadcasting to his very large and growing audience another episode of Reconquest. Relevant links for this show appear under the embedded video. To that brief list … Continue reading
Is Jesus our ‘Brother’?
One of the more rewarding aspects of being a high-school religion teacher is to be the recipient of good questions, questions that show that the student thinks and cares about the important subject matter he is studying. Some months back, … Continue reading
The Primacy of the Intellect and the Curse of Religious Sentimentalism
For decades, there has been an invasion of anti-Logos irrationalism into the Church. Sometimes this irrationalism takes the form of sentimentalism (see Brother Francis’ article, Sentimental Theology), at other times it is existentialism (“existence precedes essence”), or a host of … Continue reading