1700 Years of Unity – “On Sunday, just ahead of his trip to Türkiye and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV wrote about the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, which is the reason for his journey.” Pope Leo says Council of Nicaea still has role to play for Christian unity (Crux)
Taking Religion Seriously – “Despite presenting themselves as the apotheosis of open-minded inquiry and debate, soft-science departments at the vast majority of our nation’s colleges and universities are possessed of an aggressive, self-satisfied groupthink.” Charles Murray’s Return to Faith (First Things)
The Trinity of Comings – “Christ does not say, ‘Think about being ready,’ or, ‘Consider ways that may help you be ready,’ but simply: ‘you also must be ready.’ He has come. He will come again. And He is coming now.” Embracing the Embarrassment of Advent (What We Need Now – Substack)
Political Theater Newsrooms – “Subscriptions and ideological loyalty replaced mass advertising. Journalism learned to sell not information but identity.” The Future of Journalism: Reconciling abundance with authority (City Journal)
No Trust in Princes – “If we want to be ‘true and honest,’ shouldn’t we acknowledge that Catholics are not supposed to find themselves at home in this world, politically or otherwise?” Should Catholics Expect to Find a ‘Political Home’? (The Catholic Thing)
Mother of Medieval Monasticism – “Before Cluny helped to shape medieval Europe, it was simply a house in the woods, founded by a duke who seems to have grasped, almost prophetically, what the age required.” How we got to Romanesque; Cluny and the “mad” new monastic idea (The Sacred Images Project – Substack)
The Book of Donald – “Donald Trump’s straightforward explanations sometimes are right: Islamists are waging a war of religion in northern Nigeria …” It really is that simple: Christians are being killed for being Christians (The Telegraph)
Country of Particular Concern – “[M]ilitary ethicists have recognized a right—indeed a responsibility—for the nations of the world to intervene militarily when the government of a sovereign nation is complicit in or incapable of stopping severe atrocities.” The US Has a “Responsibility to Protect” Persecuted Christians and Muslims in Nigeria (Providence)
Treating People Humanely – “Pope Leo was recently asked by a reporter about the deportation and detention of illegal immigrants. In response, he made the following remarks …” Pope Leo on immigration enforcement (Edward Feser – Blogspot)
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