Reprinted with permission. If you want to boil this essay down into one question for the soft integralist, it is this: You say you don’t want integralism now, but if not now, when? Answering that question is harder than you think. In my recent book, All the Kingdoms of the World, […]
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Pope Benedict on Intelligent Design and the Dangers of Darwinian Materialism
Source: Bruce Chapman via evolutionnews.orgReprinted with permission Recalling the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI, I will always appreciate the fact that he recognized the dangers of Darwinian materialism, perhaps most strikingly in the homily he delivered at his installation in 2005. “We are not some casual and meaningless product of […]
IRISH CATHOLICS ON THE WORLD STAGE
Source: John Duggan via First ThingsReprinted with permission The assassination of John F. Kennedy sixty years ago in Dallas is remembered in large part for all of the things it is reputed to have shattered: postwar American optimism, faith in American institutions, and so on. If JFK had got out […]
Sex outside marriage has triggered an international bloodbath
Source: Kimberly Ells via Mercatornet.comReprinted with permission One of the first headlines that greeted me at the turn of the new year was this: “Abortion Was the Leading Cause of Death Worldwide in 2023” This statistic grabbed my attention as if I had tripped over a landmine. The leading cause of […]
Life as a Half-Full Glass
Source: Marvin Olasky via Evolution News (Discovery Institute) Reprinted with permission. Life is full of semi-miracles: Let us rejoice and be glad. If you’ve ever sat in a mark-up session where senators edit prospective federal laws, you’re not surprised that most legislation is messy sausage-making. If you’ve ever visited a […]
The Globalists Want to Promote Sex while Destroying Marriage
Source: Carlos Polo via Population Research Institute. Reprinted with permission. Should minors be allowed to marry? That’s the question before the Peruvian Congress. The gender feminists, who are opposed to marriage as an institution, say “absolutely not.” They claim that thousands of girls and adolescents will be subjected to forced […]
Without Adoration, There’s No Evangelization
Source: Editorial via National Catholic Register. Reprinted with permission. Pope Francis reminded us of an irreplaceable, foundational element that is often overlooked — or even derided — in our implementation of the Great Commission: the need for prayer and, especially, Eucharistic adoration. The world is in desperate need of the […]
Is This An Image Of Inclusion Or Exclusion?
Source: David Clayton via The Way of Beauty In a recently posted an article I discussed the legitimacy of representing Christ or Our Lady as an ethnicity that is not historically accurate. In this post I want to consider situations when it might not be appropriate. Consider first some well […]
There Is No Thinking without Memorising
Source: Jon D. Schaff via thepublicdiscourse.com Originally appeared int Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission. We deploy faddish educational notions such as “critical thinking” to the detriment of our students. What is often derided as “rote-learning” is actually essential to sophisticated analysis. […]
Elizabeth Kindelmann and Her Reported “Flame of Love” Private Revelations
Source: Tom Nash, Catholic Answers via catholic.com Reprinted with permission. Author: Tom Nash has served the Church professionally for more than 35 years, including as a theology advisor at the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). He is a contributing apologist for Catholic Answers, and a contributing writer for both the National […]
Are people who are declared Brain Dead – always dead?
Source: Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention CoalitionReprinted with permission. Brain death is a controversial topic. Many people have received a life-saving organ donation from a person who was declared brain dead. This article does not question organ donation but it does question whether determinations of brain death are always accurate […]
How to Make Life-Changing Decisions
Source: Nathaniel Peters via thepublicdiscourse.com Originally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission For the most significant choices of our lives, we only learn what the decision entails after we make it. This creates something of a dilemma. We […]