News report says: “Teen Birth Rates Higher in Highly Religious States.” Thomas Peters sees different reasons.

Roland Carnaby claimed to be a CIA agent–and was gunned down by Houston Police Officers during a traffic stop in 2008. Most local news agencies dismissed him as a nut and never followed up the story. The Houston Press stayed on the case, and has written a fascinating report.

So, during a lull in my busy day, I popped into Wal-Mart and read the last few chapters of Dan Brown’s latest book. Freemasonry is front and center in this tale, but the message is the same as in his previous books: don’t believe or trust the Bible; instead, believe those esoteric philosophies that reject…

Dan Brown’s latest book is soon to be published. This is said to be about the freemasons. He’ll sell lots of books because he knows how to tell a compelling story (no matter how illogical it may be–any novel is bound to be a “page turner” when its chapters are only two pages long!). And…

Fr. Richard McBrien is one of the best known Catholic scholars. And he’s often getting himself publicity by articles taking issue with Catholic teaching. Take this, for example: Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. After clearing the air about an article that was in the Boston Globe (a good job), he then throws out some gratuitous swipes at…

We’re coming up on the 10th anniversary of the “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification,” signed by the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation. I’ll have to write my own reflection on that. Meanwhile, here’s a reflection by Paul McCain: Betraying the Reformation: The Sad Legacy of The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of…

Carl Braaten. … the ELCA has succumbed to the same ailment as liberal Protestantism. What is that? Modern Protestantism is an amalgamation of historic Christianity and the principles of the Enlightenment, its rationalism, subjectivism, and anthropocentrism. The underlying assumption is the neo-gnostic belief in the inner-dwelling of God, such that everyone is endowed with the…

Joseph Martino has resigned as Catholic Bishop of Scranton for “health reasons.” You always gotta wonder what that means.  David Gibson speculates.