Theology
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How to Limit Government
How to Limit Government n The United States is no more likely to become Europe than China…
Listening to Timkat
I follow her story only in part, / like a man looking from a lit room at…
The Catholic Writer Today
I For years I’ve pondered a cultural and social paradox that diminishes the vitality and diversity of…
Against Symbolic Killing
Against Symbolic Killing n We weren’t, President Obama emphasized, going to use force to achieve a strategic…
Polytechnic Utiliversity
University education delivers goods that are seen as commodities, as purchasable means to satisfy individual desires and…
How to Have an Abortion
Don’t think about the freckles he, or she, / Might have, or how much hair, how big…
Divine Authority
God and Moral Obligation by c. stephen evans oxford, 202 pages, $99 Divine command theory is hardly…
Saracens and Dominicans
A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Encounter with Islamby rita george-tvrtkovicbrepols, 248 pages, $116…
Dante Decluttered
The Divine Comedy by dante alighieri translated by clive james liveright, 560 pages, $29.95 For me, the…
Works and Righteousness
The year 2013 marks the twentieth anniversary of the release of Veritatis Splendor, surely one of the…
Emergence and Formation
A few months ago, I began reading a book by the sociologist Christian Smith called What Is…
America’s Mainline
The idea that American Protestantism has a “mainline,” or ever did, was born in irony. The mainline…
The Smoke of Satan Returns
IIn 1972, on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Paul VI delivered a sermon that…
Saecula Saeculorum
For centuries the human spirit strove / To rise above the beast...
Homage to Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
I was already an old man when I was born. / Small with a curved back, he…