Orate Fratres

Dr. William Marshner has once again given an excellent FREE audio series through the Institute of Catholic Culture. While an earlier post ...

In logic, terms become the smallest building blocks of arguments. A term is any word or phrase that denotes a commonly known concept. Now b...

As promised by the trailer (which I included in an earlier post ), the show delivers breathtaking imagery from around the Catholic world whi...

Followers of Orate Frates may have watched the videos on the left side of the blog page. If not, please do so. The audio comes from Dr. Pen...

Be sure to swing on by the Anthropology of Accord blog and check out this recent post on Dr. Pence and the Christian sword: In October 201...

The Eagle tells the story of Marcus Flavius Aquila, a Roman army officer haunted by his father's catastrophic failure as a general in p...

An excerpt introduction to the review of Saving Christianity from Empire : The political left… has seemingly distanced itself from religious...

Any man worth his salt should be able to go outside and identify the current phase of the moon because the cycle of the moon is man’s natura...

My recent post on doubts concerning the historicity of Adam (and the Devil) as a potential means to deny the reality of evil should also he...

Fr. James Mason offers his reflections on life in the seminary as he prepared for the priesthood, and he tells us that the key vice never a...

In recent decades, some theologians and skeptics have attempted to sharply divide Christ in two: the historical Christ and the Christ of fa...

There has been a deep divide among Catholics over the past fifty years. Some people use political terms like conservative or liberal to desc...

Paul Froese and Christopher Bader, both sociology professors from Baylor, published a book last year called America’s Four Gods . Their work...

John Paul II’s Theology of the Body states that a true communion cannot exist without the mutual offering of each person’s self-gift to th...

Mel Gibson is not the only person from the Passion of the Christ to be making a come back these days. This past Thursday Jim Caviezel - the...

Differing from pantheism (which is the belief that God and the physical universe are coextensive, that God and the universe are two sides of...

St. Paul describes the Church as both the Body of Christ and the Bride of Christ . Now there is a great deal of theology behind both of the...

Those who claim that violence is senseless do not understand war. The Japanese sneak attack at Pearl Harbor was meant to destroy our air cra...

Love him or hate him, Mel Gibson is back and the news today is that he is moving forward with writer Joe Eszterhas to make a movie out of I ...

Two years ago I picked up a copy of the booklet Understanding the Revised Mass Texts by Fr. Paul Turner. It served as a nice preview of thi...