Dr. Blosser puzzles in sadness over converts to the Catholic faith who revert. He wonders if perhaps it might be due to Catholic dishonesty in advertising. These are almost without exception individuals of impeccable character for whom questions of “faith and morals” are of basic importance. When they become Catholics, they do not do so…

We watched Fast Food Nation tonight. It isn’t Soylent Green, but like that movie, it does leave you with surprising revelations of what you’re eating. The extras include The Meatrix and Backwards Hamburger cartoons (both of which tell the same story of what is in your food). It’s been 100 years since The Jungle, but…

From the December 2006 First Things: “Balthasar, Hell, and Heresy: An Exchange“–debate between Alyssa Lyra Pitstick and Edward T. Oakes, S.J.

An earlier post dealt with a commentary at Spero News which raised questions about the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. That article has problems, but one question is not easily dismissed, and that is the issue of von Balthasar’s dabblings in the occult. Here is von Balthasar himself: Excerpt from Foreword to Meditations on…