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June 2017

June 21, 2017

The Holy Family as an Icon of World Refugee Day?

The exemplary figure of the refugee has deep biblical roots in both the Old and...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

Benedict XVI Admits to Being an Early Critic of Humanae Vitae in Book-Length Interview

A religion is only plausible if it tells you what to do with your genitals....

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Demons of Liberal Democracy Haunt Poland After the Hell of Communism

. . . Sometimes in museums the paintings speak to me and irony suddenly vanishes....

February 2016

February 04, 2016

Culprit Behind Breasts Ballooning is Breaking Creation’s Back

I can't even begin to explain the algorithms that got me to the DailyMail story on...

December 2015

December 21, 2015

Which Renegade Pope Encouraged Dialogue with Atheists?

If the post on interreligious dialogue with Muslims is any indication, then the following words from...

December 18, 2015

The Pope Who Revolutionized Catholic Dialogue with Islam

You might think it's Francis, but it's not. The Wheaton College affair seemed like a...

December 08, 2015

Benedict XVI’s Theology of Bacon (& Creation)

The environment and Bacon are closely tied in Benedict XVI's theology. The lack of major...

October 2015

October 21, 2015

Against the Defense of Christendom

A Wall Street Journal piece by Bret Stephens, In Defense of Christendom, is unfortunately making...

October 06, 2015

What Do the Popes Truly Say About Socialism?

Like the man who slays a son in his father's presence is he who...

March 2015

March 16, 2015

2nd Year Summary: 3 Things I Love (& 1 Not So Much) About the Francis Papacy

Anniversaries are traditionally reserved for tallying gains and losses. It's hard to believe...

February 2015

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 06, 2015

Did Darwin Kill God? Conor Cunningham and Benedict XVI Answer

That's one heck of a question, isn't it? The BBC documentary at the bottom...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

What Do We Make of a Disturbingly Radical Papacy?

There are papacies and there are radical papacies. Nobody notices the really radical papacies, because...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Is the Pope Protestant? (On the Propes)

I'd like to get back to the topic of ultramontanism I broached two days ago...