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Chapp's Schtick

Vatican II: Five views sixty years on

October 15, 2022 Larry Chapp 46

Everybody I know seems to be writing something on Vatican II these days and I began feeling a bit left out of the fun. So, I thought I would jump into the mosh pit of […]

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News Briefs

Cordileone to Catholic students after boycott of pro-life assembly: ‘Do not be victims of the culture’

November 22, 2021 Catholic News Agency 4

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San Francisco, Calif., Nov 22, 2021 / 19:19 pm (CNA).
The archbishop of San Francisco has encouraged students at a local Catholic high school to reject the lies of the abortion industry and become … […]

Columns

Catholics, Nationalism, and American Identity

September 1, 2019 James Kalb 12

Identity is basic to how people think about themselves. Am I a man or woman? Father or son? Catholic or Muslim? American or Japanese? Such things help people define who and what they are and […]

Columns

Civil war, civil peace, and liberalism: On the Ahmari-French debate

July 19, 2019 James Kalb 10

Does liberalism, the view that makes equal freedom the highest political standard, mean tolerance for Christianity? Or does it ultimately mean suppression of Christianity in the name of the freedom and equality of non-Christians? The […]

Features

The decline of culture, the loss of beauty—and the surprising resurgence of poetry

May 16, 2019 Carl E. Olson 12

Dana Gioia is an internationally recognized poet and critic, and the author of several collections of verse, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award, and the widely acclaimed 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016). […]

The Dispatch

On excommunicating Andrew Cuomo for heresy

January 30, 2019 Edward N. Peters 46

Apologies for a long post. I don’t have time to write a short one. Canonist Edward Condon has an essay at First Things wherein he calls for the excommunication of NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, not on the ground […]

The Dispatch

Fr. James Martin is not thinking with the Church

August 29, 2018 Fr. Steve Mattson 69

What Fr. Martin writes and says seems guided more by GLAAD than by God, and is more aligned to the thinking of the World than […]

Opinion

Sexploits and crisis: Is it 2002 revisited?

December 22, 2017 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 47

The current drama of Hollywood stars, media types, athletes and politicians is the fruit of the hyper-sexualization of society as a whole for decades at […]

Features

Hot Air vs. Capital Punishment: A Reply to Paul Griffiths and David Bentley Hart

November 28, 2017 Dr. Edward Feser 27

Griffiths’ review in First Things of By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed is rich in condescension, high in dudgeon, and largely devoid of substantive […]

The Dispatch

Fr. James Martin, S.J., and accusations of heresy

October 2, 2017 Edward N. Peters 48

Fr. Martin’s rebuff of heresy accusations suggests that either he does not know or does not wish to acknowledge that “heresy” is not limited to the actual contradiction of […]

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Bruce Fingerhut, the good director of St. Augustine’s Press, sent me the other day the following amusing, but provocative citation: “Bertrand Russell, who, when asked why he did not give to charity, replied: ‘I’m afraid […]

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