Do Muslims Need the Gospel?
Should Catholics evangelize Muslims? Currently there doesn’t seem to be much effort in that direction. For example, a recent Pew survey shows that 23 percent of Muslims in America no longer identify with that faith, and, of those, only 9 percent convert to a different...
Do Muslims Need the Gospel?
Should Catholics evangelize Muslims? Currently there doesn’t seem to be much effort in that direction. For example, a recent Pew survey shows that 23 percent of Muslims in America no longer identify with that faith, and, of those, only 9 percent convert to a different...
Recent Articles
Abbott and Costello Meet Gender Confusion
Who’s on first, but who’s minding the schools? A Wisconsin school district has charged a 13-year-old boy with sexual harassment for using the wrong pronoun when addressing a trans student. Coincidentally, I recently came across an old Abbott and Costello skit that...
9/11: The Wake-up Call That Put Us to Sleep
If you were young at the time of the 9/11 attack, you might not remember the sense of panic that swept the country immediately afterward. If terrorists could simultaneously hijack four airliners, reduce two of the largest buildings in the world to rubble, and inflict...
Curiosity Killed the Cat
But Lack of Curiosity may kill the Catholic Church In his book, On Islam, Fr. James Schall, S.J. notes that ever since Vatican II, Church scholars have been more interested in dialoguing with Muslims than in questioning the truth of Islam’s claims. For example, says...
The U.S. Catholic Bishops Feed into the Muslims-as-Martyrs Myth
In my last piece I discussed the Church’s latest act of appeasement toward Islam—namely, the U.S. bishops’ guide to Islamophobia. The guide is, to say the least, poorly timed. At a time when most of the world is leaning over backward to avoid offending Islam, the...
