“Sacred Heart of Jesus” (detail) by Chambers I’ve been reading, recently, a good deal of the work of Dietrich von Hildebrand—perhaps not a household name, but in fact one of the greatest Catholic philosophers of the...
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Pope Francis | giulio napolitano / Shutterstock.com Pope Francis takes positions that annoy both...
Read More“St. Paul Preaching in Athens” (detail) by Raphael [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons There is a curious and intriguing passage in the third chapter of St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, which in the context of the...
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Pope Francis | giulio napolitano / Shutterstock.com I write these words from the Eternal City of...
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I just finished my second dive into the Reddit AMA world. One of the most popular websites in the...
Read MoreI write these words in the Rome airport, on my way to England, where I will deliver a paper on St. John Henry Newman and evangelization. I’m still basking in the glow of the splendid Mass of canonization yesterday, presided over...
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Last week, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray passed away. Perhaps his was not a household name, but this...
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I have been following George Will’s thought for a long time. I’m old enough to remember when his...
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There is, to be sure, a stress within the Biblical tradition that God is radically other: “Truly,...
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Last week, I gave a presentation at the USCCB Spring Meeting in Baltimore. My topic was what I...
Read MoreThe account of St. Paul’s address on the Areopagus in Athens, found in the seventeenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, is a sort of master class in the evangelization of the culture, and anyone engaged today in that...
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SB 360, a piece of proposed legislation currently making its way through the California state...
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