On the small table in the corner of my office at Westminster there is an icon of the man who became known simply as `The Theologian,' Gregory of Nazianzus, one of the most important Christian thinkers of the later fourth century. The icon is, of course, a classic piece of Orthodox artwork: Gregory...

As noted the other day, I have for years argued that you need reasons not to be Catholic. Prime among them for me would be justification by grace through faith and repudiation of papal authority. Arguments in favour of Rome, on the other hand, would include a disregard for being trendy for the sake...

James Anderson, over at RTS, has posted an interesting critique of Stephen Hawking here .

Francis Beckwith helpfully links to this piece on the logical problems in Stephen Hawking's claims about gravity and the non-existence of God. The author is a Catholic (which may distress the staff of the National Catholic Reporter) but the argument is not, I think, restricted in its usefulness to...