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2026-01-14T17:48:18-06:00

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Two Parables, One Pattern: Mercy, Grace, and Transformation

Last updated on: January 14, 2026 at 5:48 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim. He who created you without you, will not save you without you. (St Augustine) Introduction As a Catholic reading the Gospels, I find myself returning to two parables that reveal fundamental insights about God’s love and His grace. The Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11–32) reveals the Father’s heart. He runs to meet us whilst we are still far off. He doesn’t wait for perfect contrition, doesn’t demand we clean ourselves up first, nor does He require a complete... Read more

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2026-01-14T00:28:36-06:00

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History as Chiasm: Christianity Against Progress and Despair

Last updated on: January 14, 2026 at 12:28 am By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. …. People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. (Revelation 21:24-26) A recent essay titled “From Pantheon to Church: The Triumph of Catholicism” sparked controversy. For some, the word “triumph” names power masquerading as providence, imperial Christianity imposing its worldview by force. For others, it described the regeneration of dead stones, pagan beauty... Read more

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2026-01-06T16:07:43-06:00

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From Pantheon to Church: The Triumph of Catholicism

Last updated on: January 6, 2026 at 4:07 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Of the many wondrous works of antiquity, one stands as the culmination of natural reason in the pre-Christian world: the Pantheon. Built as a temple to “all the gods,” it reflects natural reason groping toward transcendence. Its architecture embodies order, proportion, harmony, and intelligibility. The great oculus opens to the heavens, symbolizing humanity’s intuition that reality points beyond itself. In this way, the Pantheon gestures toward Natural Law. It declares... Read more

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2025-12-22T09:30:55-06:00

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Seeing Christmas and Holy Saturday: How Stories Form Us

Last updated on: December 22, 2025 at 9:30 am By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim Prologue I was setting up the Christmas crib with my five-year-old grandson. As we placed the figures, he stopped and looked at the scene for a moment. Then he said, quietly, “This really isn’t very joyful for baby Jesus.” He was not confused. He was attentive. Taken on its own, the crib is not a joyful image. A child lies in a feeding trough. It becomes joyful when one knows what has gone before and what is... Read more

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2025-12-19T19:57:34-06:00

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No Deals with Molech—the Limits of Political Prudence

Last updated on: December 19, 2025 at 7:57 pm By Dennis Knapp

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I refuse to support any politician who backs legal access to abortion. The deliberate killing of innocent human beings crosses a moral line that the Church prohibits me—or anyone—from crossing. I also refuse to submit to emotional pressure that claims Catholics must tolerate that killing for the sake of the “common good,” as if social programs or economic benefits could justify destroying unborn human life. This stance does not reflect extremism. It reflects the moral foundation of Catholic teaching. The... Read more

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2025-12-16T12:49:38-06:00

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This Is My Body: The Choice Between Gift and Grasp

Last updated on: December 16, 2025 at 12:49 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim. Introduction: The First Choice A Catholic senator defends marriage and votes against labor rights on Monday. A Catholic activist champions the poor while dismissing chastity as repression. An environmental warrior fights pollution while treating sexuality as a private choice. We have fractured what should not be divided. We speak of sexual morality as one thing and social justice as another. We build entire Catholic identities around these divisions. Left versus right, private morality versus systemic sin, bedroom... Read more

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2025-12-12T13:35:00-06:00

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Does The Catholic Church “Otherize” Women?

Last updated on: December 12, 2025 at 1:35 pm By Dennis Knapp

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In my two most recent articles, I examined how Marxist and postmodern thought influence Catholics—and why these worldviews cannot coexist with a Catholic understanding of the human person. Both Marxism and postmodernism replace the Church’s traditional anthropology, rooted in Natural Law, with the idea that human reality begins and ends with the “constructed self.” For Marxism, the human person exists as a byproduct of material and social forces such as class, economics, and race. It divides humanity into “oppressed” and... Read more

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2025-12-09T07:35:32-06:00

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The Unanswered Question: Natural Law and Same-Sex Attraction

Last updated on: December 9, 2025 at 7:35 am By Dennis Knapp

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Guest contributor: Pilgrim A Study in Moral Discourse My starting position is that Catholic moral theology proceeds by reason toward truth, not by sentiment toward consensus. Yet even among Catholics, the path of that reasoning can become obscured by philosophical confusion about what moral theology based on Revelation and Natural Law requires. A recent exchange with a fellow Catholic, Todd Flowerday, brought this tension into sharp focus. The Question We Both Agree On The conversation began with a premise I... Read more

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2025-12-04T21:04:07-06:00

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Why Catholic Thinking Is Anathema to Postmodern Minds

Last updated on: December 4, 2025 at 9:04 pm By Dennis Knapp

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I recently read a passage that captures the disconnect many of my readers feel when they encounter the Catholic way of thinking. In The Church and the Middle Ages (1000–1378): Cathedrals, Crusades, and the Papacy in Exile, Steve Weidenkopf makes this observation: Those who are quick to view the past from a position of supposed superiority come to erroneous conclusions… Today, people often struggle to comprehend the Middle Ages, not only because of false narratives perpetuated by the media (nearly... Read more

2025-11-27T12:08:54-06:00

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The Smoke of Satan: Post-Conciliar Confusion

Last updated on: November 27, 2025 at 12:08 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim Introduction In 1972, while home from university, my father told me Pope Paul VI had said something striking: “From some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the Church.” Paul VI, a shepherd of Vatican II, believed in renewal but saw something going wrong, not from outside enemies, but from within: a spirit of doubt and a fading sense of the sacred. I remember that conversation, though at the time I was distant from the Church. Today,... Read more

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