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June 2015

June 04, 2015

Why I Remain Catholic

"Where would we go? You have the words of eternal life." Peter's words here are...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

A Quick Note About What An Anathema Does Or Does Not Mean

The Church has a doctrine. The Church exists (among other things) to proclaim the Gospel,...

May 26, 2015

When All Earthly Hopes Fade, That Old-Time Religion Can Be A Lifeline

I'm sure I'm not the only person who can be aggravated by what is often described, not...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

The Religion-Gospel Dichotomy

I've often resisted writing about this, because what can be written about Karl Barth's religion-Gospel...

April 20, 2015

How To Rebuild Your Life In One Simple Step

Dogmatic theology is a funny thing. I assume most people who even know what the phrase...

March 2015

March 13, 2015

Pope Francis Should Institute A Year of Confession

It's too bad that the great expression associated with the Holy Father, "the Pope of Mercy" (I...

March 10, 2015

The Death Penalty, The Catechism, The Living God

As you may have heard, America's national Catholic newspapers united in publishing anti-death penalty editorials....

March 05, 2015

Moral Realism Is A Thing

An op-ed in the New York Times fretting that Common Core is teaching kids that...

March 03, 2015

When Did God Stop Beating His Wife?

The (by and large quite good) Aeon magazine has a frustrating story on the question of...

March 02, 2015

Why Catholics Can’t Sing And The Crisis Of Catholic Education

First Things has a great little post by a dejected Lutheran convert about how Catholic liturgical singing...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

The “Demands of Propriety” and the Hands of the Living God

"Fearful it is to fall in the hands of the Living God" Hebrews 10:31 "The...

February 25, 2015

Obama’s Christianity And Religion In The Public Square

I don't like talking about politics here directly, but just a quick riff on Ross...

February 24, 2015

Lady Gaga Can Sing

Beauty is beauty and deserves to be honored as such. I knew Lady Gaga was...

February 23, 2015

Is Science In Mortal Danger?

So, here's a contention: the endeavor of the scientist presupposes intelligibility, that is to say, some...

February 23, 2015

Book Review: C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy

Google "Jesus in space." Go ahead, I dare you. (No copyright because this is one...

February 20, 2015

Soft Atheism Wants To Be The New New Atheism But It’s Still Just Boring Atheism

One striking fact about the New Atheism that hasn't gone remarked upon enough is how English...

February 11, 2015

Housekeeping Note

From now on, no more comments.

February 11, 2015

The Sexual Reaction

So, here's a provocative thesis: what we typically call "the Sexual Revolution" isn't a revolution...

February 10, 2015

Iris Murdoch and the Death of Philosophy

I wrote in an earlier post that Modern and post-Modern philosophy is haunted by the impossibility...

February 10, 2015

C.S. Lewis Ad Limina Apostolorum

The great writer once gave a stated reason for not embracing the Catholic Church (his...

February 09, 2015

How To Historicize The Historicizers

A specter haunts philosophy. "Historicism" arises from the very banal insight that a thinker's thought is...

February 06, 2015

Against Crusade Apologias

This is so tiresome. So, I guess the President said some historically-illiterate things seeming to...

February 06, 2015

Help Diana von Glahn Film The California Missions

Diana von Glahn, fellow Patheosi, is "The Faithful Traveler": she makes beautiful travel reportage about places of...

February 06, 2015

Property As Natural Right In Rerum Novarum

So, I need to make a confession. I've only read Rerum Novarum in its entirety yesterday....

February 02, 2015

Words of Wisdom on Pope Francis

Take it away, Mr Allen:

February 02, 2015

Rethinking the Death Penalty

I can't really write a massive post about our Christian duty to conform ourselves to Christ...

February 02, 2015

Bloody Moralism

The essay "Bloodless Moralism", by the talented writer Helen Andrews, has recently been unpaywalled by First Things,...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

If Catholics Want To Play Politics, They Should Learn The Chicago Way

Austin Ruse has a piece lambasting those Catholics who would see Catholics disassociate themselves from...

January 30, 2015

The Real Problem In Apologetics

Forget about history, philosophy and theology for a moment. Think instead about people's basic, social,...

January 30, 2015

What’s Right About Rights

A fascinating thing is to watch the culture percolated through the mind of a child...