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Uncle Jack: Disability and Belonging in the Neighborhood
Despite his disability, there was a time and place, sixty years ago in a small-town neighborhood bar, when Jack belonged just as he was.
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Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
What I do know is this. I have never met, nor do I ever expect to meet, a philosopher as fascinating as Alasdair MacIntyre.
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‘Starry Night’ and Van Gogh’s Haunting of Faith
In “Starry Night,” van Gogh captured heaven from the perspective of heaven but through his experience, his mental illness, his lost faith.
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Demoralization and the ‘Cosmic Authority Problem’
Demoralization in the original sense of the word often causes demoralization in the second sense of the word.
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The Kingdom of Caesar and Peter the Rock
Where is the successor of Peter? I saw him with my own eyes walk out onto the front loggia of the massive basilica. His name is Leo XIV.
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Pope Leo XIV and the New Social Question of AI
Pope Leo XIV appears to be framing AI as our defining social mission, requiring moral reflection, bold evangelization, and concrete action.
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Pope Leo XIV Addresses Diplomatic Corps
Pope Leo XIV’s address to the diplomatic corps was relatively brief but, nonetheless, packed with meaning and hints at things to come.
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Pronatalism Without the Crazy
The Antinatal Left and Technonatal Right both forswear belief in eugenics, but they both affirm the same underlying philosophical anthropology that leads to it.
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‘Sinners’ Offers Dystopian Illusions and Layers of Christian Imagery
The ersatz undying offered is a collectivist utopia that isolates, obscures, and finally obliterates the human person. But real freedom exalts us.
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Despite the Efforts of the Modern Project, There Is No Secular
No aspect of human existence can be isolated from God. If God is the very ground of existence, nothing whatsoever can exist apart from him.
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