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Was America Founded A Roman Catholic Country? (with a Spanish accent)

The previous post included the observation that tracing the United States' roots to a Christian...

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February 25, 2021

Was America Founded A Roman Catholic Country?

I appreciate Jeff Polet's point about the problems of talking about an American Founding: A...

November 2020

November 24, 2020

Shocked, Shocked that American Catholics Fund the Vatican

Massimo Faggioli makes it seem that Joe Biden will bring a new or better set...

October 2020

October 20, 2020

Politics and not Religion

What if economics and geography matter more than religion for electoral outcomes? Ken Woodward discussed...

October 16, 2020

Why Doesn’t Joe Biden Talk about Faith the Way the POTUS who Inspired Him Did?

What to make of Joe Biden as a Roman Catholic politician? The categories for evaluating...

July 2020

July 24, 2020

Christians Favor Secularism if the Option is Islam

The objections to the news that Turkey plans to use Hagia Sophia as a mosque...

June 2020

June 08, 2020

Maybe Rusty Reno Had A Point

Back at the beginning of the various state and federal directives to stay at home...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

How Weird is Episcopacy?

The piece by Tara Isabella Burton in the New York Times on weird Christianity is...

May 15, 2020

Where Integralists (Vermeule) and Americans (Linker) Agree (with Douthat to the rescue)

(For some background on intergralism vs. liberalism, see this and the links included.) Rod Dreher...

May 12, 2020

Can Love Save Liberalism

Liberalism is on the rocks and it is not coming from conservative talk-radio hosts. For...

April 2020

April 02, 2020

Rusty Reno Gets Backup From Tim Keller (sort of)

Reno is not happy with how the church in NYC or the Governor of New...

February 2020

February 06, 2020

No Words, No Real Presence

Protestant converts to Roman Catholicism will often refer to the power of Christ's real presence...

January 2020

January 17, 2020

Still Inadequate

George Weigel has lots of counsel for Roman Catholics in the New Year, especially how...

December 2019

December 25, 2019

It’s a Long Season

For anyone who tires of the pop singers crooning about Our Lord, the sales, the...

December 25, 2019

Shouldn’t Pro-Lifers Celebrate Jesus’ Conception?

The incarnation technically started inside the womb of the Virgin Mary. Indeed, God veiled in...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

Christian Freedom is Neither Blue nor Red

On Reformation Day, mentions of Martin Luther are legion. This post is not about Luther...

September 2019

September 13, 2019

Christians Want to be Modern, But They Don’t Trust Moderns

If you can believe it, the disagreement between Sohrab Ahmari and David French has gone...

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August 28, 2019

Is a Protestant Who Becomes Roman Catholic a Convert?

With news of J. D. Vance's entrance into communion with the Roman Catholic Church, it...

June 2019

June 21, 2019

Ecumenism between the White Lines

Roman Catholics worrying about whether to stay in the church has dissipated somewhat since the...

June 04, 2019

All the News That’s Civil

In 1977 the magazine, Christianity Today, the flagship publication for movement evangelicalism, relocated from Washington,...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

What Sohrab Ahmari Doesn’t Understand about Evangelicals and Conservatism

The essay at First Things by Sohrab Ahmari against National Review's David French may be...

May 22, 2019

New, Old, or Just a Little Stale?

If you follow discussions among Roman Catholics you may know that ever since Vatican II...

May 06, 2019

Presbyterian Theology and Judaism Part Two

If journalists want to dig deeper into the roots of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, they...

May 01, 2019

All of Me or Hyphenated Me

I have a friend who is of Polish and Italian descent but his father is...

April 2019

April 22, 2019

The Good (Tiger), the Bad (Kate), and the Ugly (Pence)

H. L. Mencken defined Puritanism as the "haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy."...

April 16, 2019

What about “Their” Lady?

The fire in Paris and damage to Notre Dame is, it goes without saying, awful....

April 11, 2019

Pope to Protestants – Epic Fail (or not)

Benedict XVI, the pope who resigned in 2014, has written an essay on the sexual...

March 2019

March 08, 2019

Semioticians All

When I was in college, I studied film and took a few classes in film...

March 06, 2019

Radical Christianity and Christian Culture

Some Christians are uncomfortable either with their world or their place in it. The rise...

February 2019

February 06, 2019

Pay, Pray, and Obey is No Longer the Laity’s Paygrade

One of the best books never read was Garry Wills' Politics and Catholic Freedom. This...

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