Reginald Pole was definitely pushing the boundaries of lay ministry. Of course, he represents a different era when such things were not qu...

This afternoon, I was looking up something in my handy ' Pocket Catholic Dictionary ' by John Hardon (an excellent resource, btw). A...

In light of the recent charges made against nine bishops of the Episcopal Church for attaching their names to an amicus brief explaining t...

"In a study of religious deconversion, we analyzed 50 on-line testimonies posted by former Christians, and in these testimonies we fou...

Priesthood is essentially fatherhood. That’s why we call our pastors our spiritual fathers--they father a community. It is a special relatio...

The ten volume series Dogmatic Theology , by Dr. Francis Hall has been called the Anglican version of Aquinas' Summa Theologica , and ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines death as the separation of soul and body. This is a good theological definition, and as far ...

The "Hail Mary" consists of two scripture quotes (Luke 1:28 and 42) followed by the petition, "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pr...

I noticed recently in Bonnie Anderson's note of retirement from the presidency of the House of Deputies of the General Convention of the...

The video below will show you how to braid palm leaves like this for Palm Sunday. They can be used on their own or incorporated into a stalk...

This Lent, our theme is finding the Devil in the details of the Sunday gospels. On the first two Sundays, Satan was mentioned explicitly in ...

This Lent, our theme is finding the Devil in the details of the Sunday gospels. On the first two Sundays, it was easy since Satan was mentio...

This Lent, our theme is finding the Devil in the details of the Sunday gospels. In the first week, the devil appeared as Jesus’ tempter in t...

This Lent, I will be preaching on the theme of finding the Devil in the details of the Sunday gospel readings. Last week, we heard about how...

This Lent, I will be preaching on the theme of finding the Devil in the details of the Sunday gospel readings. Jesus called him the “Father ...

Religion has gotten a bad rap—both in the world and in the church as well. I remember being part of the tradition that affirms, “Christianit...

This year, I committed myself to using my Roman-purple-on-violet damask vestment set for St. Mary's in Hamilton. The reason is to force ...

Yesterday, Susan G. Komen for the Cure reversed it's decision to stop grants for Planned Parenthood. Many people were fiercely opposed t...