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Month: January 2014
Interview
Life, Literature, and the Horror of Abortion
In his new book, Culture and Abortion (Gracewing, 2013), Edward Short examines the evil of abortion through the lens of literature and culture. “What I have sought to do,” he writes in the introduction, is […]
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Screwtape’s Disciples
At first glance, the Jacobins, Marxists, Nazis, rapacious industrial and financial oligarchs, and modern jihadists have little in common. Weren’t the Jacobin revolutionaries democracy’s standard bearers? Weren’t they guided by reason and Enlightenment principles? Aren’t […]
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The following two corrections have been made…
… to the article, “Hope and Hype for the FFI” (Dec. 16, 2013), by Michael J. Miller, at the request of the author: 1. The following inaccurate statement: “Finally, more than half (53 percent) said […]
Sojourns with Schall
Pope Francis, Economics, and Poverty
“The free-will actions of human beings, in addition to our own individual responsibility, have far-reaching consequences: they generate structures that endure over time and create a climate in which certain values can either occupy a […]
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Pope Francis just concluded Vatican III and declared “all religions are true”!
Funny stuff, right? It is, I suppose, except that some people have apparently taken this December 5, 2013, “story” quite seriously, even though the first few lines should have set of the spoof alarms: For the last […]
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WSJ: Obama administration’s “disdain for religious conscience still retains the power to shock”
An op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal expresses shock at the Justice Department’s insistence that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor lift her injunction on behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor: […]
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The Incarnation and the Call to Worship
Readings: • Isa 60:1-6 • Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13 • Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6 • Mt 2:1-12 “Worship”, observed Fr. Gerald Vann, O.P., “is not a part of the Christian life: it is the Christian […]
Editorial
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My Choices for Ten Best Films of 2013
A truly great movie does two things: entertains and uplifts. It must be a fantastic work of craftsmanship in order to properly demonstrate important spiritual truths. The legendary Catholic director Frank Capra said of filmmaking […]