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2018-03-19T21:16:46-04:00

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The Byzantine Dorothy Day

Last updated on: March 19, 2018 at 9:16 pm By Chase Padusniak

It’s no secret that I love Dorothy Day. She has helped me make sense of a Church that can often seem riven by division, academic equivocation, and a strangely-conservative politics. I don’t see much negative about Day, but she’s long been subject to criticism: she was a liberal (never mind her Anarchism and avowed anti-capitalism), she hated the sexual ethic of the Church, she opposed what it means to be an American. Her Byzantine analogue (and who knew she had... Read more

2018-01-17T11:06:19-04:00

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Catholicism, Poverty, and the Alt-Right

Last updated on: January 17, 2018 at 11:06 am By Chase Padusniak

Journalist: What about your intellectual and cultural journey? Althusser: I encountered two men. The first one was Jean Guitton, who was a catholic philosopher, a friend of Pope Saint John XXIII and a close friend of Pope Paul VI. He helped me complete my dissertation. The other was a professor of history, whose name was Joseph Hours. He was a wonderful man. During the years 1936–1939, he talked to us about all that had happened: the war, the defeats, the... Read more

2018-01-12T11:08:14-04:00

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Francis and the Benedict Option

Last updated on: January 12, 2018 at 11:08 am By Chase Padusniak

No, not the pope, but the friar. St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan Order. That’s who I have in mind as I dredge up what seems like a half-dead, but still gasping, conversation about Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option. Why now? As many of you know, I work on medieval mysticism. This means that I have to spend time (and I ought to spend more time) reading about the history of the Middle Ages. Recently, I was... Read more

2018-01-09T20:33:18-04:00

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Stewardship and the Temptations of Global Capital

Last updated on: January 9, 2018 at 8:33 pm By Chase Padusniak

A few summers ago (it’s terrifying to me that it’s been that long), I was living in Freiburg in southern Germany. A friend and I took a train out of the city and found ourselves going the wrong way. We got off, but, since no new train would be coming by for some time, we ended up disembarking near a rural village and walking around for a bit. It was the sort of experience I can only imagine being possible... Read more

2018-01-09T13:40:24-04:00

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Desire and Its Discontents

Last updated on: January 9, 2018 at 1:40 pm By Chase Padusniak

Forgive me what might seem a non-sequitur. As a kid, I’d always greet the new year with my grandmother; we’d watch the Honeymooners and bang pots and pans. Above all, though, we’d watch the annual Twilight Zone marathon. It being about the new year, I was interested to hear from a friend about an episode I can’t recall ever seeing before: “What You Need.” I’ve always loved the show, so I went home and watched this particular, unseen 25-minutes of... Read more

2017-12-28T21:23:03-04:00

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A Hermeneutics of Liberation

Last updated on: December 28, 2017 at 9:23 pm By Chase Padusniak

“Live without cares, judge no one, vex no one, and honor everyone.” – St. Ambrose of Optina “There is your brother, naked, crying, and you stand there confused over the choice of an attractive floor covering.” – St. Ambrose of Milan I often say it, but I’ll say it again: it is the martyrs, confessors, and riff-raff who keep Christianity alive in my heart. By profession, I’m a “scholar”; much of my life is spent reading arcane texts, quibbling over... Read more

2017-12-28T14:04:28-04:00

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Japan’s Martyrs and Confessors

Last updated on: December 28, 2017 at 2:04 pm By Chase Padusniak

Christmas time is when we cry out in joy at the announcement of a birth that goes by many names: the Incarnation, the Nativity, the Coming of the Lord. But, as the coming Feast of the Holy Innocents may remind us, death and life are never far apart. Christmas carries with it the stark price of children’s blood and the Incarnation inevitably leads to Golgotha, only to be reversed in the rising on the third day. It is in this... Read more

2017-12-27T11:20:46-04:00

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St. Stephen’s Universalism

Last updated on: December 27, 2017 at 11:20 am By Chase Padusniak

In the West, today marks the Feast of St. Stephen, deacon and first-recorded martyr. Tomorrow, for those Eastern Churches using the Gregorian or Revised Julian calendars (including my own Ruthenian Church), will bring the same celebration, a day to reflect on the first man to “fight the good fight,” to win the stephanos, the crown of martyrdom. December 26th is a state holiday in many countries, especially in Europe, a day to mark the ongoing joy of the Christmas Season,... Read more

2017-12-25T20:27:20-04:00

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Christos Razdajetsja!

Last updated on: December 25, 2017 at 8:27 pm By Chase Padusniak

These are the words with which my Church greets the birth of Christ: Christ is born! The traditional response is slavite Jeho, or “glorify Him!” Slight variations obtain, depending if you’re Russian, Ukrainian, or whatever other Slavic Byzantine tradition one might happen to be, but the point is always the same: God dwells among us; let us offer Him His due praise. This is, in a way, impossible. We cannot offer God all that He deserves. If we could, He... Read more

2017-12-22T16:07:00-04:00

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Language Matters

Last updated on: December 22, 2017 at 4:07 pm By Chase Padusniak

This seems an obvious statement, but, as with all things obvious, it’s only so when it counts, counts for the one speaking anyway. Our culture is obsessed by the idea that language shouldn’t be allowed primacy of place, especially when it comes to offense. In fact, there’s a whole Oxford Dictionaries entry on “snowflakes”: The Trump presidency has intensified the war of words between those people who voted for the billionaire businessman and those who oppose his policies. One term... Read more

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