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What happened at the Vatican’s bio-extinction conference

September 21, 2017 Stefano Gennarini 14

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

September 14, 2017 James Matthew Wilson 3

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

September 11, 2017 Dr. R. Jared Staudt 0

Where and why Catholics agree—and disagree—with Muslims […]

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“Amoris Laetitia” and the chasm in modern moral theology

September 1, 2017 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 68

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

August 28, 2017 David Paul Deavel 8

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

August 2, 2017 Amy Welborn 15

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

June 26, 2017 Carl E. Olson 21

“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

June 4, 2017 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 4

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

May 30, 2017 Bishop Robert Barron 11

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 […]

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Why efforts to sabotage conscientious objection in healthcare must not stand

May 23, 2017 Sister Renée Mirkes 1

Recently, Ronit Y. Stahl, PhD and Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD penned a contentious editorial published in the April 6 edition of New England Journal of Medicine entitled Physicians, Not Conscripts – Conscientious Objection in Health […]

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