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2019-10-29T18:30:36-04:00

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Does What You Believe Affect What You Do?

Last updated on: October 29, 2019 at 6:30 pm By Chase Padusniak

I am a Slovak-American. This means I care about something that, I imagine, fairly few of my fellow human beings do: the differences, if any may be said to exist, between Czechs and Slovaks. Until 1993, part of the same country (Czechoslovakia), these now separate nations differ in ways typically reduced to stereotypes: Slovakia is more religious, more agrarian, less educated, and, well, generally, less “developed.” There is some truth to these claims (though they are by no means unassailable... Read more

2019-10-28T20:26:10-04:00

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America’s Fifth Great Awakening

Last updated on: October 28, 2019 at 8:26 pm By Chase Padusniak

It is here and He is risen. Kanye West’s new album, Jesus is King, hit shelves (or really Spotify) a few short days ago. Never mind that the media has no idea what to do with it (Slate called the lyrics “weak”; while AV Club thought it proper to tell us what the Church of Satan thinks of Yeezy—go figure). Suspicions aside, some see this, along with Justin Bieber’s notorious conversion, as last gasps, even renewals, of the Fourth Great... Read more

2019-08-23T17:49:25-04:00

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Notes from the Academic Necropolis

Last updated on: August 23, 2019 at 5:49 pm By Chase Padusniak

As of late, I’ve seen a few discussions of modern college education on both Twitter and Facebook. The positions I’ve seen many people take really alarm me. I’m not talking about the (at this point expected) position taken by many older, more-conservative Catholics, that young people should mostly go to trade school and not worry about sinking their and their parents’ money into fancy degrees. No. What I’ve seen has been Left-leaning, young, orthodox Catholics arguing that the freshman college... Read more

2019-08-19T13:42:44-04:00

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If I Were Still Conservative

Last updated on: August 19, 2019 at 1:42 pm By Chase Padusniak

Earlier, I was listening to episode six of Know Your Enemy, a podcast about Right-side politics in the United State. As the title suggests, the show is meant for Left-leaners, is intended to help them understand what exactly is going on in this country in the Year of Our Lord two thousand and nineteen. In this case, the hosts were discussing the recent National Conservatism Conference, a gathering of many elite conservatives—Yuval Levin, Peter Thiel, Yoram Hazony, Daniel McCarthy, Patrick... Read more

Intercollegiate Studies Intitute

2019-07-23T21:28:45-04:00

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How I Came to be Christian (Full Essay)

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 9:28 pm By Chase Padusniak

This is a consolidation of three posts I wrote a few years ago, re-posted in an, I hope, easier to read format. You can find the originals here, here, and here. Today and for the next day or two I’ll focus on my journey to Christianity, with specific references to the events, thinkers, and ideas that guided me along the way. With faith, I hope doing so will acquaint readers with that journey while guiding me along the befuddling and... Read more

2019-07-04T20:23:14-04:00

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Catholic and American?

Last updated on: July 4, 2019 at 8:23 pm By Chase Padusniak

As a kid, I watched the History Channel special on the American Revolution every year. I loved learning about the origins of my country. Coming as I do from a patriotic family, a family in which both grandfathers fought in World War Two, one of them at D-Day and Bastogne, the whole ritual was imbued with filial significance. I brought a book about the 101st Airborne, my grandpa’s division, to my high school for a grown-up show-and-tell. I would look... Read more

2019-07-03T16:02:36-04:00

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Traditionalism, Fruit of Vatican II

Last updated on: July 3, 2019 at 4:02 pm By Chase Padusniak

Traditionalist orders and parishes are on the rise. The Dutch Dominicans are full of new life after forsaking a watering-down of their communal and spiritual life. Cardinal Sarah has called for ad orientem liturgy. It just seems to be in the air—young people like the Latin Mass, or at least attach themselves to older devotions. Anecdotal evidence may, for many people in my age group, corroborate this. A recent piece on the English Oratorians emphasizes the lively relationship between their... Read more

2022-08-17T18:55:43-04:00

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Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:55 pm By Chase Padusniak

Christianity is a communal religion; it coheres in a Church, a body of believers spiritually- and socially-united in faith and deed. Whatever people may say about Vatican II seriously wounding Catholicism, no Christian group has escaped challenge from an individualistic modernity. In fact, some say our decline goes back well beyond the Council. First and foremost, any decline in Christianity has stemmed from the destruction of our communities. People must move to find work, alienating themselves from structures of support.... Read more

Politics and Religion

2019-04-21T15:13:41-04:00

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Christ is Risen!

Last updated on: April 21, 2019 at 3:13 pm By Chase Padusniak

It is tradition in many Byzantine Churches to read from the Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom on Easter. Perhaps, the sermon is most famous for its ending: O Death, where is your sting? O Hell, where is your victory? Christ is risen, and you are overthrown. Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen. Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen, and life reigns. Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in the grave. For... Read more

2019-04-18T15:18:25-04:00

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Japanese Anti-Capitalism and the Post-Christian Future

Last updated on: April 18, 2019 at 3:18 pm By Chase Padusniak

The Bad Sleep Well is my favorite film by Akira Kurosawa. As with many of his films, it finds its basis in a Shakespearean play—in this case, Hamlet. For my purpose here, its most interesting element is its dissection of Japanese corporate culture: the board members, the salarymen, the suppression of conflict such that it must operate in the shadows, manifesting primarily in decorous putsches. Where Wall Street and The Wolf of Wall Street offer depictions of greed, most typically... Read more

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