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Realities are greater than ideas

November 1, 2023 James Kalb 19

How the world works usually matters more than what we’re trying to accomplish. We see that in politics, with democracy as an obvious example. It wants the people to rule. But the people can’t possibly […]

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The perdurance of liberal theology

October 7, 2023 Larry Chapp 121

When I was in the seminary, I studied under the late great moral theologian Germain Grisez. Despite his deeply orthodox and conservative theological orientation, he was adamantly opposed to the pre-conciliar “Index of forbidden books” […]

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Technocracy and the sexes, part II

October 2, 2023 James Kalb 8

The attention given to Jordan Peterson, and recently to more alarming figures like Andrew Tate, Bronze Age Pervert, and Raw Egg Nationalist, shows that people are finding men’s issues more pressing. The interest in these […]

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Evangelization in an Age of Unbelief

September 26, 2023 Larry Chapp 26

Wohin ist Gott? (Where is God?) — Friedrich Nietzsche Part One: Nemo dat quod non habet (You cannot give away what you do not possess) The currently raging white-hot debates in the Church are merely the […]