Father Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap., is a member of the Vatican's International Theological Commission, an accomplished professor of theology, and a prolific author. His most recent book is Jesus ...

What do Harry Potter, the Star Wars series, The Matrix, Masonry, New Age and the Raelian cult, which claims to have cloned the first baby, have in common? Their ideological soil. Identical esoteric ...

The Da Vinci Code” book and movie have tapped into and further stimulated popular interest in accounts of Jesus that were never included in the Bible. The novel led many to believe that the New ...

Father Alfonso Aguilar's essays “Gnosticism and the Struggle for the World's Soul" and “Into the Gnostic Wonderland" (March 30-April 5 and April 6-12) were excellent and entirely correct. I believe he ...

The beliefs of the Gnostics, an all-but-forgotten 2nd Century Christian sect, might not seem to have much relevance to the modern world – especially the imagined futures of some of our favorite ...

“What is effected by Nominalism, as it is appropriated out of Occam’s intricate arguments, is an instrument of power over nature justified on the authority of autonomous intellect, whereby the ...

The discovery at Nag Hammadi began with an Arab villager whose name was Mohammed Ali going with his brothers on an ordinary errand. They saddled up their camels and they rode out from their village, a ...

Never did I imagine that I would one day be writing about the intersection between gnosticism and canola oil, but it seems that my hand has been forced, so here we are. Permit me to explain. These ...

Here’s a superb First Things piece by Darel Paul in which he explains why queerness conquered American culture. It’s a terrific piece of cultural analysis. Excerpts: Queerness has conquered America ...