Editor’s note:Part 1 of this essay was published on November 29, 2023. V. The Omega point has given rise to two other cosmic theogonies that are worth reviewing here: first, a loose family of ideas […]
Science, we’re often told, gives us a description of the world radically at odds with common sense. Physicist Arthur Eddington’s famous “two tables” example illustrates the theme. There is, on the one hand, the table […]
“I’m certainly willing to believe that consciousness is somehow the fundamental substrate and we’re all just in the dream or the simulation or whatever. I think it’s interesting how much the Silicon Valley religion of […]
This essay is occasioned by (1) the conclusion of the first session of the Synodal Assembly (October, 4–29, 2023) on the theme “For a Synodal Church. Communion, Participation, Mission,” marking the beginning of an interim […]
Viri dignitatem is Latin for “on the dignity of men.” When St. John Paul II published an apostolic letter entitled Mulieris dignitatem (On the Dignity and the Vocation of Women) on the feast of the […]
I. Joseph Pearce once remarked that he tends to look away from Vatican politics on the grounds that it is better not to peer too closely into the engine room of the Barque of St. […]
“For a bishop, as God’s steward, must be blameless.”1 When Saint Paul wrote these words to Saint Titus in the first century, he was reminding Titus to be careful in his appointment of bishops for […]
Satan—the Adversary, Prince of Darkness, and Father of Lies—was a latecomer to the repertoire of Christian art. Early Christians, more interested in images of salvation than damnation, preferred depicting the Good Shepherd, the saints, the […]
The Synod on Synodality meeting this month is the first of a two-part synodal assembly; the second session is scheduled to meet a year from now, in October 2024. No one is sure what will […]
The brutal massacre of Israeli women and children by Hamas terrorists on October 7th momentarily shocked the world. What seemed to shock people even more was the almost immediate demonstrations of “solidarity” with the Hamas […]
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