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Above: a scene from Ivanhoe. There has been a steady incline in popularity of the delightfully entertaining novels written by the brilliant author J. R. R. Tolkien. This is largely indebted to the fact that Hollywood has made 16 hours-worth of impressive epic film on these stories. I enjoy them and so do many people…

Here we are in 2024 and we are still debating the ins and outs of the Second Vatican Council. After 60 years of debates and failures, what are we to think? Has the Church improved? Are Catholics better formed? Is the liturgy any better? And so on, and so on. Of course, we are living…

I got marriage wrong, twice. Here’s why I’m grateful a priest never blessed me for being in that state. When I was in college, I entered into a relationship with another woman. She was a practicing Catholic; I was less practicing but more an occasional Catholic. Weekly Mass attendance was still part of her routine,…