John Paul II firmly believed that we need fear only thoughtlessness and lack of courage. Just as Czechs and Slovaks maintained patience in the face of tyranny for four decades, we ourselves have reason to expect that current trends, however disheartening in the short term, will not endure forever. Continue Reading »
The Real War on Christianity
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian & Yochi Dreazen, Foreign Policy
A Rather Antinomian Christianity: John Updike's Religion
Gerald R. McDermott, Public Discourse
Reluctant Crusader
Tom Bartlett, The Chronicle Review
Lenten Conference Audio: St. Catherine de Ricci
Br. Irenaeus Dunlevy, Dominicana
Last week a study appeared in Computers and Human Behavior under the title “The brain in your pocket: Evidence that Smartphones are used to supplant thinking.” A summary of the findings in ScienceDaily bore the header “Reliance on smartphones linked to lazy thinking.” Researchers tested 660 subjects and found a clear correlation between high smartphone use and lower cognitive skills, especially “the willingness to think in an analytical way.” Continue Reading »
Memo to Supreme Court: State Marriage Laws Are Constitutional
Gene Schaerr & Ryan T. Anderson, The Heritage Foundation
Immortal Beloved
William Giraldi, The New Republic
Bare Ruined Choirs
Ellen Wilson Fielding, The Catholic Thing
Some Slant of Light
Joshua Auerbach, Asheville Poetry Review
Decades ago when I was a graduate student, I found myself in one of those extended bull sessions of a kind to which grad students in political science are prone, with half a dozen people discussing everything from texts in political philosophy to current affairs.
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While Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone holds the line on the teaching of orthodox moral doctrines of the Catholic Church out in San Francisco, here in New Jersey a theology teacher in Immaculata High School in Somerville is threatened with dismissal from her position for . . . agreeing with orthodox moral doctrines of the Catholic Church. Continue Reading »
Secularists vs. Providentialists
Richard M. Reinsch II, The American Conservative
What Scares the New Atheists
John Gray, The Guardian
Morality, Facts, and Opinions
Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing
Epigenesis
Joseph Bathanti, Asheville Poetry Review
As Scot McKnight points out, some conversions from evangelicalism to Rome may not simply be the result of a failure to instil theology. Continue Reading »
Cardinal Peter Turkson Delivers the Trocaire 2015 Lenten Lecture
Editors, Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference
Why Local Food Freedom Matters
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative
Dante's Dogs
Alberto Manguel, The New York Review of Books
Souls Matter
William Carroll, Public Discourse
Why Poor Women with Unintended Pregnancies Are Less Likely to Get Abortions
Amber Lapp, Family Studies
Flannery O'Connor to Betty Hester
The American Reader
Footfall
Julie Maclean, The Poetry Foundation
Danse Macabre
Andrew Nagorski, The Weekly Standard
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