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Oh the occasional article here and there, I had no idea he had a blog where he's churning out dozens of articles. This ranks right up there with when I stumbled on John C. Wright's Journal when it was on livejournal a couple of years ago. Oh, let me derail things further with this "excerpt" from Wright's recent post on "Belloc and Bibliolatry":

If I may be forgiven an implied criticism of my Protestant brethren, I notice that in at least two battles of the spiritual warfare through the ages against the enemies of the faith, the Protestant weapon against the Catholic has been wrested from their hand and turned against them by the Secularists.

First, had it not been for Protestant ‘Sola Scriptura’ replacing the authority of the Church with the authority of the Church’s books and lecture notes known as the Bible, Biblical Literalism would not have arisen, and this ridiculous alleged conflict between science and revelation, faith and reason, would have had no rhetorical force.

Second, had it not been for anti-catholic Protestant propaganda, the period of Late Antiquity after the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, which was one of the greatest periods of technical and scientific advances in the history of world (equaled only by the marvels of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century) would not be dismissed as a period of Witch-hunting superstition and gross ignorance.

The Thirteenth Century, which the Church founded the modern University and Academic system still in use today, taught logic rather than Critical South American Lesbian Novella-Writers Studies of the Twentieth Century Body Image Gender Oppression Theory. The names of the logical forms and fallacies we still use today are based on Medieval mnemonics, and Latin, the language of Rome, is still the language of science.

Nonetheless, it aided the Protestant cause to depict themselves as the party of reason and scholarship, hence to condemn their fathers and grandfathers as ignorant and obscurantist; and when the newer schism of the secularist heresy arose in the modern world, lo and behold, having been told and taught that the most rational and rigorously logical thinkers of all history, the schoolmen of medieval Academia, where superstitious witch-hunters, the secularists now besmirched their Protestant fathers and grandfathers with the selfsame accusation.

Hence the alleged and entirely fictional war between Reason and Revelation, Church and Science was born.

Great stuff from an ex-atheist science fiction author turned Catholic.