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Divine Ironies
From its very outset Christianity was . . . a feeling which merely disgusted, hid and decked itself out in its belief in a ‘another’ or ‘better’ life . . . a Beyond, invented in […]
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Toward a more perfect (and realistic) union?
In January of 1994, then-Vice President Albert Arnold Gore Jr., while speaking to the Institute of World Affairs in Milwaukee, committed one of his best known linguistic faux pas. While praising the diverse character of […]
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Abp. Charles J. Chaput: “Don’t be afraid of dying. Be afraid of not really living.”
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., has been a prominent voice in the Church for decades. A Capuchin priest, he served as bishop of the Diocese of Rapid City (South Dakota) from 1988-1997, at which […]
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Popular fiction and the Catholic Literary Renaissance
I admire anyone who has the guts to write anything at all.” — E.B. White The novel Cheaper by the Dozen saved my life. Like every student who passes through St. John’s College’s Great Books […]
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The relevance of the stars and the desires of the heart
Even if the term sui generis wasn’t invented for him, the late-Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete was its Platonic ideal. Albacete, who died in 2014, was a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, an astrophysicist, a one-time […]
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God and Winston Churchill
The woke mobs of the cancel culture have come for Winston Churchill, both here in the United States and in his home country, where the man was long considered a hero who did nothing short […]
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Holy popes and the bloodiest of centuries
One of the joys of co-hosting the FORMED Book Club with Father Fessio and Vivian Dudro is the opportunity it presents to read and discuss some of the newest books published by Ignatius Press. We […]
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Ideas have consequences
Richard Weaver, the political philosopher, once wrote that “ideas have consequences.” And therein lies a tale. In June 2001, exactly 20 years ago, a friend of mine and his wife attended a meeting in Washington, […]
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Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows and the Light of Faith
I recently paid tribute to the poet Claude McKay, a singular figure in American literature. He was the first great poet of the Harlem Renaissance who inspired a generation. After a late-life conversion, in 1944, […]
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New book explores the surprising—and often ecumenical—reality of deification
Jared Ortiz is Associate Professor of Religion at Hope College and founder and executive director of the Saint Benedict Institute. He is the author of You Made Us for Yourself: Creation in St Augustine’s Confessions (Fortress Press, […]