Summer Reading

Summer Reading

Holiday reading, and the attendant choices that accompany it, is an art I have never quite mastered. My wife does periodically remind me of how on one holiday, early in our married life, I arrived poolside carrying my flip-flops, my sunglasses, and Jonathan Bardon’s...
I can’t… the only thing I can do!

I can’t… the only thing I can do!

Years ago, I was known by some for sporadic, long, detailed blog posts about miscellaneous issues in the world around us… but a wise spiritual director asked me… who did I think was being changed by these posts? And after a period of reflection, I stopped! In...
The Paramountcy of Conscience

The Paramountcy of Conscience

A dear friend queried recently whether it was not the case that in the Catholic Church the demands of conscience ,and the directions of the hierarchy, are at times mutually incompatible, by asking if the conscience of a Catholic  could be eclipsed or overborne by the...