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May 2015

May 08, 2015

Greatest Generation? Russia Is Right, VE Day Was No Simple American Victory

Tom Brokaw's great myth-building volume, The Great Generation, seeped into the American consciousness a couple...

May 06, 2015

Just Another Atheist Jewish Catholic: An Interview With Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com and a consulting editor at the University of...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Stanley Hauerwas Contra the Bad Idea of Religious Toleration

As Americans we are enjoined to religious tolerance as if it were the 11th commandment....

April 29, 2015

Before Marriage: Gays (As a Group) Were Morally Superior to Christians (As a Group)

Stanley Hauerwas is America's theological gadfly. Short is the list of people who have not...

April 25, 2015

Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

I found something truly unusual while doing research for my piece On the Polish Origins...

April 24, 2015

On the Polish Origins of the Concept of Genocide & Its Armenian Roots

The term genocide seems ancient. It is actually a clumsy Greek-Latin hybrid coined by a...

April 21, 2015

Fr. John Behr: Marriage is a Form of Martyrdom

After dealing with controversial topics such as the sexual orientation of monasticism, the Catholic background...

April 20, 2015

FBI Head Comey is Maliciously Wrong on Holocaust Facts about Poland

It's been said the victors write the history books. This should not be equated...

April 17, 2015

Sexuality is at the Heart of Christianity’s Place in the World

We have gone over some of the lineaments of the difference Christian sexual morality makes...

April 16, 2015

Temple of Perfection: Christianity, Homosexuality & America at the Gym

There is an LA Fitness just down the road from our new apartment. It is...

April 15, 2015

Do You Know Why You Can Blame Catholics for Gay Marriage?

Today I would like to continue in the vein started by my discussion of the...

April 10, 2015

Mein Kampf Against Hitler: Comparing von Hildebrand to Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was recognized as a hero of World War II Nazi-resistance with the posthumous...

April 01, 2015

Kolakowski on the Perpetually Haunted Atheist April Fool’s

If patience is a virtue, then the fact that the Church thinks in centuries is...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Rahner’s Biblical Notion of Anonymous Christianity During Holy Week

Holy Week is the most sacred holiday on the Christian calendar. It commemorates the final...

March 28, 2015

See and Taste the Lord is Good: Ocular Communion as Real Communion

Yesterday's post on the curious practice of ocular communion included a brief citation that Ann...

March 26, 2015

Daily Life in the Time of Jesus: Locust Eating 101

Biblical references frequently remain abstractions until they collide with our reality. After opening Henri-Daniel Rops'...

March 24, 2015

Netanyahu Understands the Inquisition Better than Zmirak (Who is Closer to Cruz)

The Black Legend of the Inquisition persists because it takes popular opinion a couple of...

March 19, 2015

Those Christians Who Think there is an Atheist Worldview Deserve a Tinfoil Hat

The post "John Gray: Waiting for an Atheist Morality is Like Waiting for Godot" sparked something...

March 18, 2015

John Gray: Waiting for an Atheist Morality is Like Waiting for Godot

John Gray is one of our most fascinating public intellectuals and one heck of a...

March 17, 2015

5 Pathbreaking Catholic Titles to Watch from the University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago is no doubt one of the most dynamic academic institutions in...

March 05, 2015

11 Most Important Critiques of Modernity According to Thomas Pfau

Of making many books there is no end: and much study is an affliction of...

March 02, 2015

Holy Orthodox Mother Russia? Let’s Compare it to Quebec!

Quebec is usually cited as one of the most shocking examples of rapid secularization. The...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

Hope Abandoned: Something Rotten in Putin’s Russia Besides Nemtsov’s Corpse

"Killing Hope in Putin's Russia" could be one of the most depressing reads of the...

February 27, 2015

The West Was Never Western: Creative Plagiarism, Rome, Tracing

I was recently reminded of a quip in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. His character says: I...

February 13, 2015

Carnival is Getting off the Ground: Stoop Down & Meet St. Puke!

I've been catching up on reading of late. It's part of my effort to deepen...

February 12, 2015

The Catholic Valentine’s Creepier than 50 Shades

On this Valentine's Day I'd like to remind you that Catholicism is creepy. Yesterday afternoon I...

February 10, 2015

Obama’s Drones are far Deadlier than the Spanish Inquisition

Obama seems to finally have reached that most amusing point in a two-term presidency: The...

February 03, 2015

The Missionary Positions of the Hitchens Family: On Cosmic Delusions

The Hitchens family is well known for its missionary positions. Christopher Hitchens was so hellbent...

February 02, 2015

Q: How does Belichick Have a Leg up on the Devil & Pete Carroll?

Wait for it, wait for it, wait like for Godot . . . ....

January 2015

January 28, 2015

5 Facts Holocaust and World War II Remembrances Frequently Forget

The Holocaust is inextricably tied to memory through maxims such as: Emil Fackenheim's "Never forget" and...