(Brain Pickings Weekly)   Starting in college, I began hearing how the Roman Catholic Church supposedly tormented Galileo, religion, of course being the squasher of science and human brillance. It was only…

    What constitutes religious art? It seems sacrilegious art is much easier to recognize on sight. Simcha Fisher writes:   Some of it [religious art] is stark, some gentle, some lovely,…

(Source)   This essay at the New York Times by Susan Jacoby, The Blessings of Atheism, got me thinking. Some excerpts:   IT is primarily in the face of suffering, whether the…

    On Facebook yesterday I wrote as a status: “I’m realizing more and more that some of the best followers of Christ have nothing to do with any churches. How God…

 (Source) After mass on Sunday, I spoke with my pastor, Father Ros, about the story of the Syrophoenician woman and also the blog post I had read that portrayed Jesus in a…

(Getty)         I’ve asked before why do you go to church. Another big question, even more pressing is why so many men don’t. Over at Black and Married with…

Over at The Church of No People, the ever-brilliant Matt explains why being a political moderate is not a position of acquiescence or of being milquetoast. Also, I have no idea why…

On Sunday, on my way to church I caught part of On Being which featured a chat with influential Christian writer Gabe Lyons and Focus on The Family’s Jim Daly. Yesterday, while…

(Source) I found this story particularly interesting since historically, the Black Church, and especially it’s leaders, have pushed hard for civic involvement, from voting to civil disobedience if need be. From the…

 A statue of St. Therese at St. Joseph the Carpenter, Roselle, NJ. Today is the feast day of St. Therese of Liseaux on the Roman Catholic Calendar (the Anglican Communion, of which…