John Allen on "The Top Five Vatican Myths": "Pundits, activists and journalists often write sentences such as “The Vatican thinks, “The Vatican wants,” “The Vatican is afraid that …” In a literal sense these formulae are meaningless. There is no creature called “the Vatican” out there with a unified will and intellect. Only seen from afar can the Vatican seem a Stepford Wives-kind of environment, in which everyone looks alike, dresses alike, thinks alike and acts alike. The personnel of the Roman Curia are united by the doctrine of the Church and by the ministry of the successor of Peter. But there are many different ways to express those convictions, and hence there are different dreams and contrasting visions. This is not an organism but a bureaucracy, and it is rarely of one mind."
Matthew Lickona, "Vampire Love", InsideCatholic.com.
Robert Barron, "Why Is Everyone Crazy About Vampires?", WordOnFire.org.
John Granger, "Mormon Vampires in the Garden of Eden", Touchstone (Nov/Dec 2009).
John Granger, "Twilight’s Vast Gleaming: John Granger Explains the Widespread Popularity of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series", SalvoMag.com.
Thomas S. Hibbs, "Bite Her Already", National Review.com.
Michael D. O'Brien, "Twilight of the West", studiObrien.com.