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Fatima: Spectacular signs for a skeptical age
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun.” It’s the perfect time to reflect on the message of Our Lady at […]
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What happened at the Vatican’s bio-extinction conference
A conference sponsored by two pontifical academies embraced a kind of environmental determinism that looks at human reproduction as a mere bio-technical issue. […]
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On teaching the liberal arts
My maturation as a professor came when I learned to love ideas more by way of coming to love them through—in pilgrimage with, in communion […]
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Islam, Violence, and the Nature of God
Where and why Catholics agree—and disagree—with Muslims […]
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“Amoris Laetitia” and the chasm in modern moral theology
Can the apostolic exhortation help bridge the chasm that, since 1968, has divided moral theologians in matters of sexual morality? […]
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The legacy of Michael Novak (1933-2017), a man of Tradition
It is for his appraisal of the free market economy that the late Michael Novak is, and will probably continue to be, most known, praised, […]
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The spiritual witness of Flannery O’Connor
The question sometimes comes up: “Where should I start with Flannery O’Connor?” Perhaps the person posing the question has never read O’Connor at all. Or he might have encountered one of her widely anthologized stories […]
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Authority, anthropology, and the bourgeois morality of Fr. James Martin
“About sex especially men are born unbalanced; we might almost say men are born mad. They scarcely reach sanity till they reach sanctity.” — G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man “For this reason the Second Vatican […]
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Pentecost and the Role of the Laity
Editor’s note: The following homily preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., today, on the Solemnity of Pentecost (4 June 2017), at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City. […]
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Silence and the Meaning of the Mass
Robert Cardinal Sarah’s recent book The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise explores a number of themes both theological and spiritual, all centering around the unhappy role that noise has come to play in our […]