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Monthly Archives: October 2015
The Cult of Christopher Hitchens
Originally at: http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/the-cult-of-christopher-hitchens by Sean Haylock Like many bright but impressionable youngsters I was greatly taken-in by the charisma and bravura bombast of the late Christopher Hitchens. In fact, I became a Hitchens groupie. I even own a t-shirt with his likeness … Continue reading
Roger Scruton: ‘My tribal religion’
Originally at: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/october-9th-2015-2/roger-scruton-my-tribal-religion/ by Michael Duggan Roger Scruton is not a Catholic. But he might have been. “I’ve always been drawn to the Catholic Church because of its respect for tradition, for the apostolic continuity it represents and for its attempts to imbue … Continue reading
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An Aging Wedding Culture
Originally at: http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2015/10/10/our_big_fat_marriage_culture.html by Betsy VanDenBerghe We who come from a marriage-intense culture laughed a little more than others when My Big Fat Greek Wedding‘s one-liners took the box office by storm back in 2002. Unmarried heroine Toula Portokalos narrates her saga … Continue reading
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Discerning Synod
Originally at: http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/group-discernment-versus-groupthink by James Martin, SJ e Synod on the Family has seen many observers and participants expressing almost daily frustration over the apparent confusion in, or “confusing signals” being sent by: the Synod as a whole, the freewheeling media conferences … Continue reading
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Ghosts in a Secular Age
Originally at: http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/ghosts-in-a-secular-age/ by Ross Douthat During Pope Francis’s stateside visit I wrote a post arguing that his rapturous reception from our ostensibly-secular media was partial evidence for secularism’s relative weakness, notwithstanding certain recent de-Christianizing trends in the United States. For a very different sort of evidence, … Continue reading
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Is Catholicism about to break into three?
Originally at: http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/10/06/is-catholicism-about-to-break-into-three/ by Rev. Dwight Longenecker In a recent letter to The New York Times, Marquette theologian Daniel Maguire suggested that the Catholic Church was headed toward a three-way schism. Writing about Pope Francis’ reforms to the annulment process, Maguire predicted: Catholicism is … Continue reading
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Why Do We Not Save Christians?
Originally at: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/why-do-we-not-save-christians_1039557.html?nopager=1 by Elliott Abrams The Yom Kippur liturgy, just followed in synagogues around the world, repeats several times references to God as one who rescues captives. The central daily Jewish prayer as well refers to God who “supports the fallen, … Continue reading
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Finding Ourselves in Flannery’s Freaks
Originally at: http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/09/finding-ourselves-in-flannerys-freaks.html by http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/09/finding-ourselves-in-flannerys-freaks.html O.E. Parker is constantly looking in the mirror. Vanity of vanities. Parker is one of Flannery O’Connor’s crazy misfits. A tough dropout who was captivated by the mystique of tattoo at the age of fourteen when he … Continue reading
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A BENIGN READING OF A CONFUSING PARAGRAPH
Originally at: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/09/a-benign-reading-of-a-confusing-paragraph by Janet Smith When I was asked to sign the Appeal critiquing Paragraph 137, I initially agreed with the reading of the authors of the Appeal—but as I studied the paragraph more carefully, it became clear to me that … Continue reading
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Catholic Springtime 