Posts by Tom Hoopes

The Catholic Church has produced a number of masterful novelists, poets, and playwrights.  From Dante and Geoffrey Chaucer to Evelyn Waugh and J.R.R. Tolkien, the Catholic literary tradition is—to understate it—impressive. There

Jefferson Bethke’s very slick video “Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus” is getting a lot of buzz right now. There are news stories, YouTube comments and responses, and it is just

Suing Obama over contraceptives isn’t just for Catholics any more. Benedictine College’s student newspaper editor Abigail Wilson reports in Fox’s “College fix” that Colorado Christian University has joined the fray. She interviewed

In the days before Christmas, the U.S. bishops sponsored a full page ad in both The New York Times and The Washington Post. “The ads have made our point of view loud

By Ron Ratliff | A former Protestant pastor and a scholar who has published works on C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton, Mr. Ratliff entered the Catholic Church at 2011’s Easter vigil. He

A Biblical Walk Through the New Mass Translation Ted Sri Dr. Edward Sri spoke on campus on September 1, 2011, about the new translation of the Mass. Dr. Sri is a former

As 2012 approaches, here’s a quick run-down of events from the past year that will impact the Church in America in our time, in no particular order. 1. Denver Babies Start College

 Christopher Hitchens in the new Vanity Fair. An infant and a corpse. They are the most common images of Christ ― the baby in the manger or his mother’s arms, the dead

 kenginapunzalan.com The good news is that Catholics still live in a country where we can actively engage and influence our government through democratic processes. The bad news is that too many of

I just got back from Notre Dame where I attended the great conference “Radical Emancipation: Confronting the Challenge of Secularism,” at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. We brought Gregorian