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• Joseph Ratzinger: "Devotion to Mary is primarily incarnational"
• Our Brave New World will be designed by techies and celebs
• Getting medieval about "same sex marriage"
• I don't think this is what Revelation 21:2 was referring to
• Joseph Ratzinger, Economic Prophet?
• "Advent is a time for being deeply shaken..."
• For the story behind the Fr. Newman flap...
• "I think I'm probably a 'Cafeteria Catholic.'"
• Catholicism is not a democracy...
• The debate is on
• Benedict XVI on St. Paul and Justification
• Some of the lies of feminism...
• "Obama and the bishops are talking the same platform..."
• Cardinal Stafford: President-elect Obama is "aggressive, disruptive..."
• Traveling...again
• And Much More!
Heretical Aussie priests lauds "avatars," Arians, and
the "Cosmic Christ" | Carl E. Olson | Fr. Peter Dresser doesn't understand why people are upset at him. That's not the only thing he doesn't understand.
Palin and the New Feminism | Fr. Matthew Gamber | An interview with Serrin Foster, who has led Feminists
for Life of America (FFL) since 1994 and is the creator of the Women Deserve Better campaign.
• Why We Must Not Give Up The Fight | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger | An excerpt
from Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures.
• The World We Think In and the Drama of Existence | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | A review of The Modern
Philosophical Revolution, a brilliant new book by David Walsh.
• To Trace All Souls Day | Fr. Brian Van Hove, S.J. | An explanation of some of the theological and historical
roots of All Souls Day.
• Music and Spirituality: To the Tune of St. Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Basil Cole, O.P. | St. Thomas
Aquinas's analysis of beauty helps us appreciate the value of music and the musician.
• The Misunderstood Monster | Joseph Pearce | "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most influential novels of the
nineteenth century; it is also one of the most misunderstood and abused."
• "I despise Birth-Control" | G. K. Chesterton | "Babies and Distributism", a chapter
from The Well and the Shallows.
• "Words create history": On Benedict XVI and the Synod | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | A reflection on Pope Benedict XVI's opening
address to the Synod of Bishops in Rome.
• Balthasar, his Christology, and the Mystery of Easter | Aidan Nichols, O.P. | The introduction to Fr. Hans Urs
von Balthasar's Mysterium Paschale, written by a highly regarded English Dominican theologian.
• Missionary to Alaska | Interview with Fr. Louis L. Renner, S.J. | The author of
A Kindly Providence: An Alaskan Missionary's Story discusses his forty years as a priest in Alaska.
• On Being Amazed In The Cosmos: Christoph Cardinal Schönborn and "The Purpose of the Path" | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | Is there
common ground between modern scientific theories and religion?
• Biblical Aspects of the Theme of Faith and Politics | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger | An excerpt from
Church, Ecumenism, & Politics: New Endeavors in Ecclesiology.
• "Pro-choice" vs. "Pro-abortion"? Or, "Pro-choice" = "Pro-abortion"? | Carl E. Olson | What
does it mean when someone says, "I am pro-choice"?
• Evangelization and Truth | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | The Christian spirit is animated
by a passion to lead all humanity to Christ in the Church.
• China's Catholics of Guizhou: Three Days with Three Bishops | Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. | Conversations with three Chinese bishops,
including one "underground" Catholic bishop.
• Humanae Vitae at Forty | Msgr. Robert J. Batule | Humanae Vitae not only contains the truth about
the right ordering of the marital act, it also has much to teach us about the right ordering of society.
• Christianity and the History of Culture | Christopher Dawson | An excerpt from Chapter 2 of
The Formation of Christendom.
• Message On a Bottle | Carl E. Olson | Can wine be used to proclaim the Gospel? Tim Busch
of Trinitas Cellars thinks so.
• Selections from Lumina | New Lumina | Adrienne von Speyr | Excerpts from a beautiful
little book of brief meditations on the love of God by the Swiss spiritual writer, mystic and medical doctor von Speyr.
• Benedict in Paris: "Logos is among us." | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | Why did
Benedict give his address, "On the Roots of European Culture," in a revamped College that owes its origin to St. Bernard of Clairvaux?
• The Meaning of Dogma | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | Catholicism has always
taken dogmatic statements seriously because it realizes that the failure to state the truth properly often leads to error.
• China's Struggling Catholics: A Second Report on the Church in Beijing | Anthony E. Clark | A
report on three of the major Catholic churches in the capital of China and the formidable challenges faced by Catholics there.
• Beauty and the Sacred | Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J. | "A person
deprived of beauty is like a person deprived of love. A person cannot attain happiness without beauty--sensible, intellectual or religious."
• Fessio and Pearce Talk About Shakespeare | Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. and Joseph Pearce | A video of the founder and editor of Ignatius Press
interviewing the author of The Quest for Shakespeare.
• The Meaning and Purpose of Marriage | Alice von Hildebrand |
The beauty of the marital embrace is meant to benefit not only the spouses themselves but all those related to them.
• Father Jenkins' "Creative Contextualization" | Thomas S. Hibbs |
A look at the fallout from Notre Dame president Father John Jenkins' decision to keep The Vagina
Monologues on the Notre Dame campus.
• The Introduction to Prodigal Daughters: Catholic Women Come Home to the Church |
Donna Steichen
• The Beginnings | Vernon Johnson
• The Catechism: Proclamation and Pedagogy | Petroc Willey, Ph.D., S.T.L., Pierre de Cointet,
and Barbara Morgan
• Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Death: Why John Paul II Was Right | Dr. Raymond Dennehy
• Who Is "The Universe" And Why Does It Care What I Think? | Mary Beth Bonacci
• Introduction to The Gift of Infallibility | Rev. James T. O'Connor
• Discerning What Is Christian | Margaret M. Turek
• Priests of the Domestic Church | Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers
• Pope Benedict XVI, Theologian of Joy | Monsignor Joseph Murphy
• Introduction to Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's God's Word:
Scripture, Tradition, Office | Peter Hünermann and Thomas Södin
• Chesterton and Orthodoxy: An Insight Podcast | Dale Ahlquist
• Chesterton and the "Paradoxy" of Orthodoxy |
Carl E. Olson
• The Emancipation of Domesticity | G.K. Chesterton
• Experience, Reason, and Authority in the Apologetics of Ronald
Knox | Fr. Milton Walsh
• St. Thomas and St. Francis | G.K. Chesterton
• Seeing With the Eyes of G.K. Chesterton | An Interview with Dale Ahlquist
• Recovering The Lost Art of Common Sense | Dale Ahlquist
• The Life and Theme of G.K. Chesterton | Fr. Randall Paine
• From "The Appeal to Antiquity" | Adrian Fortescue
• The Inquisitions of History: The Mythology and the
Reality | Rev. Brian Van Hove, S.J.
• Chapter 1 of Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau | Fr. Jean Bernard
• Chapter 1 of The Living Wood: Saint Helena and the Emperor
Constantine (A Novel) | Louis de Wohl
• Traveling With the Apostolic Fathers | An Interview with
Steve Ray
• Rediscovering Christopher Dawson | Brad Birzer
• On Writing A History of Christianity in China | Fr.
Jean-Pierre Charbonnier
• St. Ignatius of Antioch and the Early Church | Kenneth Whitehead
• Denys the Areopagite and the Divine Light | Carl E. Olson and Dr. William Riordan
• Walking In the Footsteps of Saint Paul | Carl E. Olson and Steve Ray
• The Monsignor and the Don | An Interview with Fr. Milton Walsh
• From Catholicism to Radical Feminism and Back | An interview with Lorraine V. Murray
• Hell on Earth and the Hope of Heaven | An interview with Michael O'Brien
• William P. Clark: The Quiet Catholic Who Changed the World |
An interview with Paul Kengor
• "Jews Demand Signs" | An Interview
with Roy Schoeman
• Why Are There So Many Ugly Churches? | An interview with
Moyra Doorly
• Going Deeper Into the Old Testament | Interview with
Aidan Nichols, O.P.
• Reform or Return? An Interview with Rev. Thomas M.
Kocik
• The Theological Genius of Joseph Ratzinger | An
Interview with Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, S.V.D.
• The Truth About Families
• The Beijing Invitation
• Against What Do We Fight? On Cardinal Dias at Lambeth
• Ultimate Battles
• Will To Truth: On the Death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• On The Risk of Listening
• "The Agent of Truth on the Margin of the World"
• What's a "Pretend Ex-Boyfriend"? | Mary Beth Bonacci
• Will the Real Shakespeare Please Stand Up? | Joseph Pearce
• Finding Shakespeare and Reclaiming the Classics | An interview with Joseph Pearce
• ID vs. "Big Science"--On The Big Screen | Carl E. Olson
• Pornography, Electronic Media
and Priestly Formation | Sister Marysia Weber, R.S.M., D.O.
• Dawkins' Delusions | An interview with Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P.
• Opening pages of Island of the World | Michael O'Brien
• China's Thriving Catholics: A Report From Beijing's South Cathedral | Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D.
• The Underpopulation Problem | Michael J. Miller
• Elections and the Parish | Fr. Frank Pavone
• What I Learned From Henry Morgentaler | Carl E. Olson
• The Movement that Won't Die | Elenor K. Schoen
• Flawed History, Flawed Decision | Fr. Ralph Wright, O.S.B.
• Warning: This Is a Dangerous Book | Lorraine
V. Murray
• A Genuine Conversion or Act of
Perjury? | Joanna Bogle
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Joseph Pearce is the prolific author of several acclaimed biographies of major Catholic literary
figures, including G. K. Chesterton, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Hilaire Belloc, as
well as several other works. He is a Writer in Residence and Professor of
Literature at Ave Maria University in Florida, Editor-in-Chief of Ave Maria University
Communications and Sapientia Press, as well as Co-Editor of the The Saint Austin Review (or StAR), an international review of Christian culture,
literature, and ideas published in England (St. Austin Press) and the United
States (Sapientia Press). Pearce's most recent book is
The Quest for Shakespeare. He is also
editor of the Ignatius
Critical Editions, a tradition-oriented alternative to popular textbook series such as
the Norton Critical Editions or Oxford World Classics, designed to concentrate on traditional readings of the Classics
of world literature. Visit his Ignatius Insight author page for further information.
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A Kindly Providence: An Alaskan Missionary's Story
by Louis Renner, S.J.
This comprehensive and illustrated volume is both a rich history of the Catholic Church in Alaska, and the autobiography of Fr. Louis Renner, S.J., who was a dedicated missionary in Alaska for 40 years. He tells
here a compelling story of a full and fascinating life in service of the people and the Church of Alaska amid the incredible natural beauties, challenging elements and vast regions of the Great Land. Beautifully
interweaving the history of the people and Church in Alaska, Fr. Renner tells his story of a dedicated missionary priest who loved the people he served. A scholar, a teacher, and always a Jesuit priest, he
taught German and Latin at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, edited the Catholic newsletter The Alaskan Shepherd, and ran missions at two different Indian villages on the Yukon River. This pastoral priest
became a friend to people in all sectors of Alaskan society. Tony Knows, the governor of Alaska, even presented him with the "Governor's Award for Friend of the Humanities".
Read an Ignatius Insight interview with Fr. Renner about his book, his life as a priest, and his time in Alaska.
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