Interview
Month: March 2012
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Ecclesia et Civitas
God and Liberal Modernity
“How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun?” — Friedrich Nietzsche […]
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Interview
Christian Scriptures, Jewish Commentary
The recently published Jewish Annotated New Testament (Oxford University Press, 2011), marks the first time, as the volume’s Preface states, “that Jewish scholars have annotated and written essays on the complete New Testament.” It is co-edited […]
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The bishops are taking it to the “in house”
George Weigel analyzes recent statements by Cardinal Timothy Dolan about how to overturn the HHS mandate: The rigor with which the bishops have challenged the administration and its HHS mandate has not been given the […]
Special Report
The Anti-Catholic “Pontifical Catholic University of Peru”
The escalating struggle between the Vatican and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) over the reform of its statutes may appear to be nothing more than a conflict over administrative differences, and an obscure […]
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The war on fertility is a war on reality.
Popes Paul VI, Bl. John Paul II, and Benedict XVI understood/understand that fact; it is heartening that non-Catholics such as James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal are also making the connections, either explicitly or implicitly. Taranto, […]
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A First-Century Gospel Fragment Found?
John Farrell writes in a recent piece for Forbes: “The jury is out on this for a while, but a recent archaeological discovery could represent the oldest surviving copy of the Gospels.” He refers to […]
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More about Nothing and the Scientists Who Abuse It
Philosopher of science William E, Carroll has written yet another superb article on the topic of scientists and “nothing”. Carrol has criticized Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow for their sloppy thinking and writing on the […]