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Finding the Christmas good amid the holiday glitz

December 13, 2018 Russell Shaw 3

Deploring the commercialization, secularization, and general thinning-out of the spiritual meaning of Christmas is part of the stock in trade of commentators on things religious of whom your humble servant is one. Nor should we […]

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What is behind the increase in “witches” in the US?

October 31, 2018 Anne Hendershott 39

As the number of self-identified witches in the United States has surpassed the number of Presbyterians, it is helpful to recall G.K. Chesterton’s adage that when we stop believing in God, we begin to believe […]

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Hard lessons from our ancient forebears in the Faith

June 5, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 4

There is some comfort to be had in the fact that, appearances aside, things really have always been so, that the project we call Western […]

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The Modern Malaise and the End of the World

September 19, 2017 Dale Ahlquist 13

The end of the world is more real than the world. The Creator is more real than the creation. The end of time is the […]

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