Under A Chindolea

Today is our feast day.  And the contribution that some of us have decided to make to St. Ignatius is this new blog that kicks off today.  ...

Rocco Buttiglione clarifies his position here: “I did not say it was wrong to seek to defend the rights of the child through the use of the ...

I have written here and there in pieces about Father Rick Thomas, SJ, my primary reason for becoming a Jesuit, and the Lord's Ranch Cath...

John Allen writes: In a similar vein, I asked myself this week what I would do if somebody offered me a blank check to spend on some project...

One of my tremendous pet peeves is when people talk about how we used to interpret, for instance, Genesis "literally" but now we i...

Majesty Snowbird - Sufjan Stevens For those of you who like Sufjan like me, here are some songs I had never heard before, I think because yo...

I'm taking this from Evangelical Catholicism , who got it from Fr. Dubay's book Happy Are You Poor.   Great examination of conscienc...

Deal Hudson at Inside Catholic criticizes three ways of reading Caritas in Veritate .  One of those ways is John Allen's irenic "pa...

I have nothing against Michael O'Brien as a person.  He is my favorite living Catholic author (with the possible exception of Ron Hansen...

Some of the sad details coming out about the Legion.  Yet they continue to begin new schools and carry on life as normal.  What more needs ...

Passed on from a friend. Sen.Tom Coburn, speaking to Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor at confirmation hearing, July 15, 2009: We ...

I've often wrestled with the question of what I would be forced to believe if science ever discovered a "gay gene."  With the ...

The Divine Milieu  by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ is a masterful work on spiritual theology. Here are a couple of quotes I like: The day ...

I have gone back and forth on Harry Potter over the years. What I do firmly believe is that parents should educate their kids about the act...

Well, Mason Slidell is taking a bit of a vacation from blogging.  He may not be back for a little while, but he may make cameos if you beg h...

I'll have to admit, this made me laugh. It was one of the initial humorous responses to Weigel's ridiculous piece in the National R...

Michael Novak strongly defends liberalism as a system within the confines of American law and culture. Like Murray, I take him to be articu...

David Schindler on modern liberalism: I’m inclined to accept what Alasdair MacIntyre says — and I quote it often — that most of the public d...

It is an important year for Benedict to come out with a new social encyclical.  Not only to look back at Populorum Progressio , but also to ...

From Caritas in Veritate:  In order to protect nature, it is not enough to intervene with economic incentives or deterrents; not even an ap...