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What have I learned in a community college?
A Latin proverb informs us: Discimus docendo (We learn by teaching). What have I learned these past five semesters? That the teachers’ unions have gotten […]
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Pope Francis and Ideology
It is unfortunate that the Holy Father’s overall emphasis on legalism is such that he never addresses the antithesis of legalism, namely, antinomianism, leaving us […]
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How and why the death penalty deters murder in contemporary America
Too many churchmen simply ignore the evidence that the death penalty saves lives and promotes public order. Catholic public officials charged with the care of the […]
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Pope Francis’ “open and incomplete” leadership and the puzzling “reform” of the Curia
Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, the Editor-in-Chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, says the Holy Father’s leadership “is based on the success-error dynamic,” which inevitably “destabilizes whoever […]
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Questioning the prospects of Catholic-Orthodox unity
The latest statement of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation (NAOCTC) begins and ends with questions, and these are both more valuable and certainly more interesting […]
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Should the sixth petition of the Our Father be translated as “Do not let us fall”?
And is the English rendering “do not lead us into temptation” bad theology? Here’s why the answer to both questions is “no”. […]
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Who are the friends of religious liberty?
A breakdown of who is siding with who in the “cake case,” Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, scheduled for oral arguments in the Supreme […]
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Is opposition to the death penalty Thomistic?
Given Pope Francis’s own high regard for St. Thomas (together with the historical papal approbation he has enjoyed) when it comes to doctrinal issues, we […]
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A Critique of Faggioli’s interpretation of early Ratzinger’s view of Scripture, Tradition, and Authority
Massimo Faggioli’s naïve biblicism cannot account for different levels of authoritative Church teachings in Catholicism, with some being foundational, irreformable, and definitive, and others being […]
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Liturgy, Authority, and Postmodernity
As our self-consciously modern liturgical rites approach their fiftieth birthdays we would do well not to cling to them uncritically. Nor can we follow postmodernity […]