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A Deeper Context: Overlooked book provides insight into Vatican II debates

September 2, 2020 Conor Dugan 68

In the first year of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI famously recalled the Second Vatican Council, which had ended 40 years previously. Benedict, with the steely-eyed realism that has marked his whole life, posed hard […]

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Atheist, racist, bigot, sexist: The truth about the demonic Karl Marx

September 1, 2020 Ines Angeli Murzaku 45

In 1999, Harvard University Press published The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, revealing a “tragedy of planetary dimensions.” It documented the untold atrocities of communism and all the people whose lives and livelihood […]

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New book ponders the continuity (and conservatism) of today’s conservative movement

August 27, 2020 Jerry Salyer 26

“A society that accepts the killing of a third of its babies as women’s ’emancipation,’ that considers homosexual marriage to be social progress, that hands out contraceptives to 13-year- old girls at junior high school […]

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The Next Pope is an evangelical call to ressourcement

August 25, 2020 Eduardo Echeverria 17

George Weigel’s new book The Next Pope is a call to ressourcement. This means that the Church must engage in a retrieval of her teaching by looking back to the authoritative sources of the faith—Scripture […]

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The particle collection that fancied itself a physicist

August 23, 2020 Dr. Edward Feser 15

I haven’t done a “Physicists say the darndest things” post in a while.  People usually ask me to write one up every time a Lawrence Krauss, Sean Carroll, or Stephen Hawking (well, lately not Hawking) […]

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Negotiating grace, nature, freedom, autonomy: A conversation with Douglas Farrow

August 18, 2020 Carl E. Olson 4

Douglas Farrow, PhD, is professor of theology and Christian thought at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. A noted lecturer and a prolific essayist, he is the author of several books, including Ascension and Ecclesia, Ascension Theology, […]

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A disturbing guide to the devilish Karl Marx

August 17, 2020 Anne Hendershott 26

Winston Churchill, in a speech before the House of Commons on October 22, 1945, said that “the inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, the inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal […]

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Former Cosmo writer: “I wrote this book as an act of atonement.”

July 28, 2020 Paul Senz 22

Over the last 60 years or so, the “sexual revolution” has transformed nearly every aspect of American society. Propaganda for the sexual revolution flowed from the pages of such publications as Cosmopolitan, where a young […]

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Poetry’s Revival and Mr. Wilson

July 22, 2020 David Paul Deavel 2

Poetry used to be where, literarily speaking, it was at. For much of the last century, however, to talk about poetry has been to talk about a subject that has grown increasingly far from the […]

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Historical fiction at the service of Lockean liberalism

July 21, 2020 Nathanael Blake 13

Historical fiction is an honorable literary genre and there is no shame in writing it. Unfortunately, America’s Revolutionary Mind by C. Bradley Thompson has been marketed as a genuine American history, rather than the libertarian […]

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