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Music to Our Ears: a Review of the Pope’s New Book
Cardinal Ratzinger approached the ageing John Paul II and asked to be relieved of his curial duties – and to be named head of the Vatican Library. We know Papa Wojtyla said no. We don’t know if he had...
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On Every Channel
Editor’s Note: As David Warren cleverly argues today, the Internet is mostly a vast wasteland – yet the Church and true Catholicity cannot be absent from it without also being unfaithful to the...
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The Liturgical Cliff
Advocates for a more dignified and reverent celebration of the Mass – this author among them –continue to pine for this or that reform that will refocus the liturgy, in the words of Father Richard...
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Benedict, Dawkins, and the Fullness of Reason
In his most eloquent account of the relationship between faith and reason – the 2006 Regensberg address – Pope Benedict XVI argues that the modern understanding of reason that restricts rationality to...
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Unrepentant Love
Last Sunday, we reached that time in Lent – Laetare Sunday – explicitly exempted from the penitential practices in order to rejoice, to celebrate. A day to briefly press the pause button on Lenten...
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Regensburg Revisited: The Roots of Islamic Violence
Sandro Magister recently commented on an article in L’Osservatore Romano regarding the failure of any significant Muslim response about the recent deadly attacks on Christians in Arab lands. But this...
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The Truth Is Always Pastoral
Canon lawyers are fascinated by the Samaritan woman at the well. The moment we hear about her five husbands, and her consort, we start thinking about how her case might be handled at the marriage...
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Ideological Medicine: Serving Aims, not Humanity
A few weeks ago, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced a new recommendation on AIDS prevention: uninfected people at risk of HIV transmission should take a pill – a particular antiretroviral...
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To Go Deeper into the Life of Christ
Every Catholic should spend a minimum of fifteen minutes a day engaged in spiritual reading. Normally, this should include some reading of the New Testament to identify ourselves with the words and...
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Lent 2015: Reflections and Suggestions
On his last Good Friday as pope to the Church Universal, Benedict XVI said during his homily: “The readings that have just been proclaimed offer us ideas which, by the grace of God, we are called to...
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Music to Our Ears: a Review of the Pope’s New Book
Cardinal Ratzinger approached the ageing John Paul II and asked to be relieved of his curial duties – and to be named head of the Vatican Library. We know Papa Wojtyla said no. We don’t know if he had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On Every Channel
Editor’s Note: As David Warren cleverly argues today, the Internet is mostly a vast wasteland – yet the Church and true Catholicity cannot be absent from it without also being unfaithful to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Liturgical Cliff
Advocates for a more dignified and reverent celebration of the Mass – this author among them –continue to pine for this or that reform that will refocus the liturgy, in the words of Father Richard...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Benedict, Dawkins, and the Fullness of Reason
In his most eloquent account of the relationship between faith and reason – the 2006 Regensberg address – Pope Benedict XVI argues that the modern understanding of reason that restricts rationality to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Unrepentant Love
Last Sunday, we reached that time in Lent – Laetare Sunday – explicitly exempted from the penitential practices in order to rejoice, to celebrate. A day to briefly press the pause button on Lenten...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Regensburg Revisited: The Roots of Islamic Violence
Sandro Magister recently commented on an article in L’Osservatore Romano regarding the failure of any significant Muslim response about the recent deadly attacks on Christians in Arab lands. But this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Truth Is Always Pastoral
Canon lawyers are fascinated by the Samaritan woman at the well. The moment we hear about her five husbands, and her consort, we start thinking about how her case might be handled at the marriage...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ideological Medicine: Serving Aims, not Humanity
A few weeks ago, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced a new recommendation on AIDS prevention: uninfected people at risk of HIV transmission should take a pill – a particular antiretroviral...
View ArticleClik here to view.
To Go Deeper into the Life of Christ
Every Catholic should spend a minimum of fifteen minutes a day engaged in spiritual reading. Normally, this should include some reading of the New Testament to identify ourselves with the words and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lent 2015: Reflections and Suggestions
On his last Good Friday as pope to the Church Universal, Benedict XVI said during his homily: “The readings that have just been proclaimed offer us ideas which, by the grace of God, we are called to...
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