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May 2017

May 09, 2017

Biblical Authority After Babel Cannot Be Built Upon Mere Protestant Christianity

I recently finished reading Kevin J. Vanhoozer's, Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in...

May 03, 2017

Western Civ Doesn’t Need Tenured Radicals to Ruin Itself

“Tragedy typically leaves questions painfully open, . . . [but] the challenge is not only how...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Post-Execution Church: Rise Up from the Electric Chair!

I read this recent New York Times interview with people who have witnessed an act...

April 26, 2017

Leading Historian Made the Analogy Between the Refugee Crisis and the Holocaust Long Before Pope Francis

There goes Pope Francis again, speaking off the record about news events off-the-cuff. He's compared...

April 24, 2017

Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Memory of the Holocaust Continues to Evolve

The great German philosopher is usually only known for the statement, made in Prisms, that the culture which...

April 09, 2017

What is the History of the Coptic Christian Victims of the Egyptian Terrorist Bombings?

The rich diversity of rites has always been a hallmark of Christianity since long before...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

Prayer Isn’t About God

Prayer, modern people think it's about God. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Praying is difficult to understand, because we...

March 17, 2017

The Myth of Secularization

Secularization theory attempted to expose religion as a myth, but the tables have turned. Nietzsche,...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Why Are Protest Movements (Like the Women’s March) Ineffective?

The Women's March protest has me thinking about protest movements . . . if only...

December 2016

December 10, 2016

The Medieval Catholic Origins of Human Rights (Day)

The head-in-the-sand stance of many Catholics toward the modern world leaves them unprepared to engage their...

December 05, 2016

Religion: Either Everything, or Nothing

"Religion is either everything, or it is nothing." --Pawel Rojek, Avant-garde Conservatism "Christianity has functioned...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

The Reformation is Not Done with You

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." --William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Don’t Look to Secularism if You Want to Bathe in a Kinder, Gentler World

The problem of violence is an inherently human problem. It is unavoidable, because violence is...

August 17, 2016

Slavoj Žižek: There’s a Special Place in Hell for Clinton Consensus Supporters

I write about politics again not because I have any hopes (nor fears) about what...

August 16, 2016

AP Poll of ISIS Members Proves Pope Right on Islam

The West's knowledge of Islam makes Christians say dumb things about ISIS; I would venture...

August 14, 2016

Last Eyewitness Explains What the Sacrifice of St. Maximilian Kolbe Means

Let us remember that love lives through sacrifice and is nourished by giving. Without sacrifice...

August 06, 2016

Truman Lied, Hiroshima Fried: An Atomic Transfiguration

If our gospel does not penetrate the veil, then the veil is on those who...

August 01, 2016

Pope Francis Wasn’t Silent About Auschwitz; He Deconstructed It Instead

There's plenty of talk about Francis's silence during his visit to Auschwitz last week. This...

July 2016

July 20, 2016

The Structural Sin of Racism Rends the Body of Christ

Anyone with the slightest sensitivity…cannot fail to recognize the nature of National Socialism: naturalistic, antagonistic...

July 14, 2016

The Powerful Catholic Case for a Preferential Option for Black Lives Matter

I stayed out of the fray of commenting on Black Lives Matter until yesterday, because...

July 13, 2016

Why Do “All Lives Matter” Armchair Commentators Disgust Me More after the Murder of Philando Castile?

Perhaps because I know where Falcon Heights is. Perhaps because he was my age, graduating...

June 2016

June 24, 2016

Churchill’s Dream of a United States of Europe Dies with Brexit

The structure of the United States of Europe, if well and truly built, will be...

June 17, 2016

The Orthodox Believer’s Tale of Jesus’s Wife

Was Jesus married? Shocking news pieces attempting to debunk the orthodox version of the life...

June 06, 2016

Ever Wonder Why Saint Paul Went to Arabia?

Arabia is a geographical entity familiar and vexing to the contemporary Westerners, but what could...

May 2016

May 02, 2016

This 1 Thing Has Never Before Happened in the Sistine Chapel

No, it's not nudity, as you can still tell from the cover photo even if...

May 01, 2016

Happy May Day (Resurrection Sunday) to the Russian Orthodox!

Товарищ, Христос воскрес! Воистину воскрес! Happy May Day, Resurrection camp starts today. The wonderful thing about...

April 2016

April 14, 2016

Happy 1050th Birthday Poland!

I ran across the oldest recorded text in Poland's history today. The hymn in question...

February 2016

February 09, 2016

Catholic Historian Takes Back “Secular” Enlightenment

The 18th century worldwide intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment spawned what's called a Republic...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

What’s History’s Most Unjust “Just War” Justification?

The concept of "Just War" originates in the writings of St. Augustine. He was perhaps...

January 23, 2016

The Roots of Protecting Life From Conception in the Catholic Enlightenment

The story of the conflict between science and religion during the Enlightenment is mostly false. Catholics...