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A Church In Exile
Update: Hillsong: We Haven’t Shifted After All Religion, and maybe Ebola, owned the news this week. From the…
First Links – 10.17.14
The Morality of Food—Then and Now Leann Davis Alspaugh, The Hedgehog Review Apple and Facebook Are Paying…
Subtlety, Agility, Clarity
Matthew Levering has a delightful summary of Thomas’s delightful description of the resurrection body as subtle, agile,…
Law of Love
For Thomas, the Torah was not simply another secular constitution. It was divine law, aimed at establishing…
Calvin, Typologist
Discussing Christ as the end of the law in his preface to Pierre-Robert Olivetan’s translation of the…
Accustomed to God
The incarnation without the cross and exaltation doesn’t accomplish salvation. But the incarnation ain’t nothing. As Adam…
Cardinal Is “Appalled,” Denies Africa Comments Caught on Tape
Update: Africans Criticize Cardinal Kasper’s Remarks In an interview published yesterday, Cardinal Walter Kasper—the leading voice calling for liberalizing…
What’s Happening in Houston?
When I first saw the story, I dismissed it as a hoax. The City of Houston had…
No Fear Mysticism
Walk into any Barnes & Noble and it won’t be long before you’re confronted with rows and…
The Domestic Church
Here’s something shocking that the bishops said about marriage—not the bishops in the Synod in Rome right…
First Links – 10.16.14
How the Common Core Went Wrong Frederick M. Hess, National Affairs Why Are Americans So Fascinated with…
The Bondwoman
The crucial association in Paul’s reading of the Abraham story (Galatians 4) is the link between Hagar,…
Triumphant Love
In one of the many wonderful passages in his Christ’s Fulfillment of Torah and Temple, Matthew Levering points…
Keeping Torah
In response to a critique of Thomas Aquinas’s views on the law from Michael Wyschogrod, Matthew Levering…
Don’t Listen to the Africans, Says Catholic Cardinal
Update: Cardinal Is “Appalled,” Denies Africa Comments Caught on Tape Update II: Africans Criticize Cardinal Kasper’s Remarks In a…