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August 2013

August 06, 2013

Top 10 Recent Books: 5 on Heaven, 5 on Hell

I've recently written on both heaven and on hell. My own readings on these topics...

August 06, 2013

Constantine, Socrates, and Other Saints

Here is one of the more controversial early posts.

July 2013

July 31, 2013

The Prolegomena to Any Future Newman

Below is an excerpt from an interview with Nick Ripatrazone featured today on his blog The Fine...

July 30, 2013

A True Opium for the People is a Belief in Nothingness After Death!

When was the last time any of you (who don't attend fundamentalist churches) heard a...

July 29, 2013

Miłosz, Penderecki, and Jeremiah: On the Contemporaneity of the Bible

I'm taking a bit of a break from my Catholiclandia series before I tackle the...

July 26, 2013

Orientalist Dreams of Poland as Catholiclandia (Part II)

Yesterday kicked off a series of posts about the orientalization of Poland among Western scholars....

July 25, 2013

Orientalist Dreams of Poland as Catholiclandia (Part I)

There are plenty of stereotypes floating in the seas of religious punditry. The so-called pundits...

July 24, 2013

Eternity in a Dunghill: Infinity and Perspective

You've no doubt encountered Blake's "Auguries of Innocence." It begins with: To see a world...

July 22, 2013

Michael Hanby: Human Making in a Sacramental Cosmos

Those of you who enjoy the new Communio website should also know they have a...

July 21, 2013

Introducing Alfred Delp, SJ

July 20, 2013

Coetzee on the Stillbirth of the Humanities Out of Theology

I suspect the endless essays about the rethinking, protecting, death, in other words, the "crisis,"...

July 19, 2013

The Ideological Winters of American Catholicism

The average American parishioner is more faithful to the Democratic and Republican platforms than the...

July 18, 2013

Coetzee Demolishes Greek Harmony With Christian Agony

The best religious novelist of our time isn't, as far as I know, a Christian...

July 16, 2013

You Have no Idea How Much Nastier I Would be if I Was Not a Catholic

My post about the historical roots of resistance to the widespread and sociologically natural practice...

July 14, 2013

Anti-Catholicism: America’s Last Acceptable Prejudice

Systematic prejudice in America is rightfully in the spotlight again after yesterday's verdict in Florida....

July 12, 2013

Top 10 Theology Books of the Last 10 Years (That I've Read)

Here is a list of what I consider to be the ten most important theology-related...

July 11, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists 3: Warhol's Byzantine Iconoclasm & the Mystery of Blau's Bafflement

You'd be surprised how many Christian academics with cushy jobs at state schools are gloating...

July 10, 2013

The Wild & Wooly von Balthasar

It's a given von Balthasar is smarter than you are. Henri de Lubac once called...

July 09, 2013

Disconsolate Karłowicz & Dostoevsky Tarry with Theological Corpses

One of my readers has (rightfully?) chided me about my obsession with the negative aspects...

July 08, 2013

Hannah Arendt: Any Anthropology is Always-Already a Theology

We are in the middle of something like a Hannah Arendt Renaissance. One of my...

July 07, 2013

Kristeva: The Obscenely [Baroque] Catholic Difference

What I love the best about the passage I'm going to quote at length below...

July 05, 2013

Acquainted with the Night: The Art of Jerzy Nowosielski (An IMAGE Journal Essay)

What follows is an essay I published in IMAGE Journal with the help of the Starmach...

July 03, 2013

American Idol: Religious Freedom

That something went wrong with the post-conciliar Church is a truism of both left and...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 2: The Christianity of Camus

Albert Camus was nearly as unfaithful as Jean-Paul Sartre . . . to atheism. This...

June 28, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists: Sartre's Crossover

Almost everyone will agree that Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) is rightfully recognized as a major figure...

June 27, 2013

Debunking Science & Religion Myths: The Copernican Revolution Wasn't a Demotion

The science and religion debates are chock-full of ideological myths. Nowadays the scientific side usually...

June 25, 2013

Zbigniew Herbert Tempers the Rational Fury

Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) is one of the two greatest Polish poets of the 20th century....

June 23, 2013

Sunday Spoiler: The Liturgy Is *Not* Sacred

If you're looking for a book which is a huge difference-maker in how you view...

June 22, 2013

Colm Toibin's Regensburg Moment & Macauley's Catholic Dissidents

Colm Tóibín's The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe is a real treat. There's...

June 20, 2013

Pagan Symbols and the Coming Christianity

Philip Jenkins of Baylor U is probably our most perceptive commentator on religion. His views...

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