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2026-10-10T10:17:04-06:00

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Amoris Laetitia Deserves a Better Defence

Last updated on: October 10, 2026 at 10:17 am By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim. Mike Lewis labels the critics. He does not address the controversy. Introduction Ten years after Amoris Laetitia, Pope Leo XIV has opened a week-long meeting in Rome to ask what the Church has learned since its release. He speaks of “the difficulties faced,” “the questions that have emerged,” and “what we have learned along the way.” He does not mention specific controversies over Chapter 8, but the honesty he asks for applies there. Mike Lewis, writing at... Read more

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2026-10-02T06:49:33-06:00

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Rich Man, Poor Man: Altruism and Agency

Last updated on: October 2, 2026 at 6:49 am By Dennis Knapp

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In my previous article, I challenged a way of speaking about poverty that emphasizes what everyone owes the poor while hesitating to discuss what the poor themselves owe to others. My concern was not that the poor deserve less assistance. Rather, when we reduce people merely to their needs, we risk diminishing their moral agency. As often happens in my comments section, that argument received considerable pushback. But the discussion led me to an unexpected realization: we may make the... Read more

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2026-10-01T08:40:38-06:00

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The Order We Did Not Make: The World We Received

Last updated on: October 1, 2026 at 8:40 am By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim. Did God Really Say The first act of the fall is a question. Disobedience comes afterwards. Did God say, “You shall not eat from any tree in the garden”? (Genesis 3:1) Notice what the serpent does not do. He does not deny that God spoke. He offers no rival fact about the tree, no hidden property Eve’s senses had missed. Instead, he reopens the meaning of a sentence she had understood perfectly well: one tree, its fruit... Read more

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2026-09-24T19:24:00-06:00

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The Poor Have Rights—and Responsibilities

Last updated on: September 24, 2026 at 7:24 pm By Dennis Knapp

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I recently read these words by a fellow Patheos writer concerning the Christian’s obligation to the poor. Citing St. John Chrysostom, he states: How can anyone claim to love Christ if they will abuse Christ in the poor and needy? The excuses various Christians give all come down to the claim that the poor are unworthy of their aid. St. John Chrysostom strongly disagrees! ‘Need alone is the poor man’s worthiness; if anyone at all comes to us with this... Read more

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2026-09-22T07:10:08-06:00

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Is This “Culture War” Catholicism—or Evangelization?

Last updated on: September 22, 2026 at 7:10 am By Dennis Knapp

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Recently, I purchased a book by a popular Catholic author—a cleric not known for engaging in the so-called “culture wars.” Yet this author makes several observations that many on the Catholic Left might consider “culture war” talking points that distract from the truly pastoral approach they believe modern Catholicism requires. The author observes that mass media: Shapes our religious and ethical imagination. Fosters sympathy for abortion, homosexual relationships, euthanasia, and alternative understandings of the family. Portrays Christian opposition to these... Read more

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2026-09-20T10:02:33-06:00

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The Clancy Effect: A Criminal Trial is Not a Culture War

Last updated on: September 20, 2026 at 10:02 am By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim. Introduction The Lindsay Clancy case has produced a remarkable amount of commentary, and only some of it has been about the case. Clancy killed her three children in January 2023. At trial, the question was whether she was criminally responsible when she acted. Her defence said postpartum psychosis had taken that capacity from her. The prosecution said the evidence showed planning and an awareness of wrongfulness. After more than five weeks of testimony, the jury deliberated for... Read more

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2026-09-12T18:19:08-06:00

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Lindsay Clancy: Sympathy and Systematic Victimhood

Last updated on: September 12, 2026 at 6:19 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Who Is the Victim? A recent mistrial in Massachusetts has sparked a firestorm of controversy, dividing not only progressives and conservatives but, to some extent, men and women. The case involved Lindsay Clancy, a mother who admitted to killing her three children—Cora, Dawson, and Callan—by strangling them with exercise bands in the family’s home. The trial did not center on whether Clancy killed her children—she admitted that she did—but on whether she was criminally responsible for their deaths. The trial... Read more

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2026-09-11T13:12:53-06:00

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The Road We Have Not Walked: From Knowing to Walking Faith

Last updated on: September 11, 2026 at 1:12 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim. The Question That Justifies Itself A scholar of the law once stood up to test our Lord. He did well at first. He named the Shema without hesitation. He added the command to love one’s neighbour as though it had always belonged beside it. Luke tells us Jesus approved the answer: “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live” (Luke 10:28). And then, he asked the question that undoes him: “And who is my neighbour?”... Read more

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2026-09-08T11:47:34-06:00

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Gloria Steinem, John Paul II, and Two Visions of Freedom

Last updated on: September 8, 2026 at 11:47 am By Dennis Knapp

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A Catholic Reflection on Gloria Steinem’s Legacy Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has died. I pray for her soul. She now must stand before God and answer for her life. As a Catholic, I believe her death provides an occasion to reflect on her legacy. While Steinem fought against discrimination, sexual exploitation, and limitations placed upon women, she also made reproductive and sexual autonomy, especially abortion, central to women’s liberation. Her legacy calls to mind a constant foil to her views:... Read more

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2026-08-30T12:59:49-06:00

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The Suggestive Power of “Perhaps”

Last updated on: August 30, 2026 at 12:59 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Can Permanent Discernment Work Around Catholicism’s Safeguards Against Doctrinal Change? To frequent readers, my concerns about the Synod on Synodality are well established. I do not so much resist the stated intent of synodality as I question its potential theological consequences. Synodality’s focus on “listening,” “cultural migration,” and becoming the Church “in a different way” appears to do something quite unique, subtle, and theologically sophisticated when considered alongside Catholicism’s strict safeguards against explicit doctrinal reversal. Synodality invokes the suggestive power... Read more

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