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“Liturgizing is a work of Christ in man”: An interview with David Fagerberg

July 2, 2021 Carl E. Olson 7

David Fagerberg is Professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he has been since 2003. After earning an M.A., M.Phil., and PhD. from Yale University, he taught in the […]

Editorial

Fidelity or Idolatry? The conflict behind us, the crisis among us, the choice before us

January 7, 2019 Carl E. Olson 37

“Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God.” — Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2113 “For the grace of God has […]

The Dispatch

Domesticating the divinity

August 30, 2017 George Weigel 7

In this twenty-first century, we are no less tempted to domesticate God, and thus to sink into a shallow religious indifference or insouciance, than our […]

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Nero. The smoke was black. We have to come back tomorrow. Inside the Sala Stampa and the Media Center at the Pope Paul VI Hall on the southern side of the Vatican, white smoke is […]

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