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April 2015

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 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 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...

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 23, 2015

1 Thing Nobody Noticed about Oscar Best Foreign Film Winner Ida

Great art always shows you more than you are prepared to see. While watching Ida...

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...

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...

January 21, 2015

How Did Disappearing Middle Eastern Religions Survive in the First Place?

Gerard Russell's Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East should...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Mini TOP10: Books on Vatican Relations with China and Hong Kong

Today we feature an exclusive peek ahead to the third installment of my interview...

October 16, 2014

Synod14: It’s Déjà vu All Over Again!

The Synod reporting has been nothing short of apocalyptic. And I do love it in...

October 03, 2014

Talking At the Muslim Leadership Is Futile

Leading up to the coalition of the willing waging war against ISIS much noise was made about...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

All the Best to the Russians, But I Am Profoundly Skeptical

The Merton Annual asked me to write a piece about the Thomas Merton - Czeslaw...

January 2014

January 08, 2014

Apart from… What has Illiberal Catholicism Done for Us?

The John Zmirak piece about "Illiberal Catholicism" has proven to be a great catalyst for...

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Thanksgiving Borne of Vexation and Humility

I'd like to share with you an excerpt from Scott Dodge's post from last year:...