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On Holy Friendship and “Accompaniment”
“Accompaniment” appears to offer holy friendship, but it is holy friendship on the cheap–just as we cost-benefit analyzing materialists would have it. […]
Articles by Alan L. Anderson
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Praying for those who hate us: A Lenten lesson from news
Jesus cautioned the Apostles to “Watch and pray” lest they fall into temptation. Struggling with anger, I have a tendency to note the “Pray” part […]
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Our ugly progressive culture’s desperate need for authentic love and the Faith
By divorcing human intimacy from the context for which it was created our secular progressives have reduced it to simply pleasure, or what use to […]
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In Defense of Jonah
In the Reluctant Prophet we have the classic (and beautiful) case of God ‘choosing a crooked pencil to draw a straight line’, for Jonah is […]
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Enlightened urbanites and the violent sport of statue tipping
The exultation of self that the urbanites experience from tearing down the honor paid to others is like a drug, and like any narcotic it […]
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The growing secular totalitarianism—and our Catholic response
A Republican congressman shot; a Republican Senator threatened with death if he doesn’t vote the left’s way on Obamacare; an elite software developer who spent almost a half-a-billion dollars promoting gay marriage calling for the […]
General
The Summer of Insanity
You may be pardoned, dear reader, for thinking the world has finally gone mad, for in a real sense it has. Forty-eight years ago we were treated to the misnamed ‘summer of love.’ Today, we […]
General
My Question for the Synod: Where’s the Sacrifice?
Sacrifice. It is the central word, in a real sense the Logos, of the Catholic Faith. It is through Christ’s Sacrifice on the Cross that we are saved. It is the re-presentation of His Sacrifice […]
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Love, Sin, and the Synod
The recently released instrumentum laboris, published by the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in preparation for this October’s Extraordinary General Assembly of Bishops, presents a compelling and often illuminating synopsis of the state […]
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An Archbishop and the Politicians: When Hope Meets Cynicism
Perhaps more often than we notice, our bishops actually model for us the gentle strength and love of Our Lord in delivering the Gospel of Christ to the world in a manner most befitting to […]