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About Peter D. Beaulieu
Peter D. Beaulieu earned an interdisciplinary doctorate in urban and regional planning from the University of Washington (1975), is a member of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists and author of Beyond Secularism and Jihad? A Triangular Inquiry into the Mosque, the Manger & Modernity (University Press of America, 2012) and A Generation Abandoned: Why 'Whatever' Is Not Enough (Hamilton Books, 2017).
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Opinion: Yesterday’s Council of Nicaea and today’s “Synodism”

October 18, 2022 Peter D. Beaulieu 14

The year 2025 will be the 80th anniversary of George Orwell’s Animal Farm; the 60th anniversary of Gaudium et Spes; and the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Animal Farm denies who we really […]

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Opinion: Making sense of synodal steps during precarious times

October 2, 2021 Peter D. Beaulieu 13

In this month of October, as we begin to “walk together” in synodality, I recall a very favorable experience as a member of an archdiocesan pastoral council during 2001-2004. And yet, momentary pockets of theological […]

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The 150th anniversary of Vatican I and the Church today

October 1, 2020 Peter D. Beaulieu 4

The First Vatican Council conducted its last session on September 1, 1870, and was “suspended”—not adjourned—in October: [We] do suspend the same [the council] until some more convenient and appropriate time, to be assigned by […]

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What might Edward Gibbon say today?

March 25, 2020 Peter D. Beaulieu 0

Ross Douthat made this remark recently while discussing his new book The Decadent Society: How We Became Victims of Our Own Success: But if you look at how many kids they’re having, our birth rate […]

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A “Diversity of Religions” or a “Religious Sense”?

November 16, 2019 Peter D. Beaulieu 10

More sweeping than the familiar tension between Faith and Reason, the Spanish and Basque poet, novelist, and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno proposes hope first, and then reasoning faith and finally charity. It’s not about rationality, […]

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Amazonia: Upstart triads versus the Triune Oneness?

August 19, 2019 Peter D. Beaulieu 7

The Trinitarian Oneness is one thing, while a pre-Christian or post-Christian Triad is quite another. On this point, the Instrumentum laboris for the Amazonia Synod has muddied the waters. Here’s the triad parsed from the […]

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On the Trinity, Triangulation, and Islam

June 9, 2019 Peter D. Beaulieu 9

Prior to global positioning satellites, celestial navigation determined a position on the globe based a reading of the stars. With a sextant three intersecting lines are charted, derived from star fixes above the horizon. The […]

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Quo Vadis: Where are the bishops and laity of old?

February 19, 2019 Peter D. Beaulieu 10

Reading the signs of the times, one cannot help but see that our current history is not only syncretic and lost, but totally upside down. One also notices that the bishops of the fourth century, […]

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What if St. Augustine was an organizer for the February meeting on sexual abuse?

December 13, 2018 Peter D. Beaulieu 5

Two organizers for the February 2019 Vatican meeting on sexual abuse, Cardinal Blasé Cupich of the United States and Archbishop Scicluna of Malta, have remarked: “This meeting has to be understood as part of a […]

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If Dognetus and Bernanos were Synod Fathers

October 11, 2018 Peter D. Beaulieu 7

An anonymous letter publicized by Archbishop Chaput critiques the working paper for the Synod on Youth, Faith and Vocations, and then by some is dismissed and even humiliated because it is anonymous. What then of […]

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