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The searing power of marriage
While it may seem implausible, the funniest book of recent memory is a memoir by a man whose wife asks him for a divorce because she’s fallen in love with another man. It is also […]
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“At the root of the human is Christ”: The theological work of Fr. Donald J. Keefe, S.J.
Kevin A. McMahon earned his doctorate in systematic theology from Marquette University, having worked closely with Fr. Donald Keefe, S.J., during five years of study. After graduation, he joined the faculty at Saint Anselm College, […]
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False Flag explains the radical, evil goals of queer politics
Remember when gay activists told us that they just wanted tolerance—and that their agenda wouldn’t affect the rest of us? They lied. What was sold as tolerance for a small minority of Americans who just […]
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Catholics and the call to evangelize: An interview with Steve Dawson
We are all called to spread the Good News, the Gospel (the euangelion). We are called to evangelize. There are, of course, many schools of thought on the best approach to evangelization, and it’s safe to […]
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How parents are freeing their kids from the public school monopoly
As I write this review, The New York Post reports that City Schools Chancellor David Banks cashiered an elected mother on a Manhattan Community Education Council (a parents’ advisory board). She got the boot ostensibly for […]
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Investigating the art of murder mysteries: An interview with Fiorella De Maria
“There is, however, another good work that is done by detective stories,” G. K. Chesterton wrote in 1901. “While it is the constant tendency of the Old Adam to rebel against so universal and automatic […]
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Twelve cities and the story of early Christian evangelization
Many of the most important figures from centuries and millennia past are distinguished by the cities in which they lived: Clement of Alexandria, Augustine of Hippo, Irenaeus of Lyons, Cyril of Jerusalem, and John of […]
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In the Courts of Three Popes opens windows into how the Church works
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was Mark Twain’s novel in which the main character found himself in a very different world: Hank Morgan was somehow carried back in time to the court of King […]
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Distorting Mirrors
As headlines daily remind us, antagonism towards Jews is the most enduring hatred in our world. The Lost Mirror: Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain examines one segment of this phenomenon at the time that […]
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Why did a priest write a novel about the Mafia, Confession, and Providence?
Art can be a tremendously effective means of communicating theological truths. We have seen this over the centuries and across millennia, and it is no less true today. In recent years, there has been a […]