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The Disenchantment Dilemma for Today’s Culture
Our desires are infinite because they are, at their deepest level, a desire for the infinite good, who is God. Nothing less than God will satisfy us.
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A Tragedy of Polarization: What Faith Teaches in the Age of Division
While there are cases where a theologian has a duty to remain silent, there is also a duty to express one’s criticism of a magisterial text.
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A Remedy to Misconceptions: Newman’s ‘The Idea of a University’
While there are cases where a theologian has a duty to remain silent, there is also a duty to express one’s criticism of a magisterial text.
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Victorian Horror and the Search for Truth
When our reality feels like fiction, and our fiction feels insane, these words are a welcome reminder that the truth, the way, and the life is with us in every…
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When Poetry Is Vanquished By Science
Screening out potentially “defective” children devalues all our lives and warps our cultural sense with the illusion that we can play God.
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Catholic Faith Under Fire: A Destructive Drawdown of American Soldiers’ Faith Formation
For our military to be ready and fit to fight, soldiers of faith must have an exceptional spiritual foundation. Soldiers must be confident that their, and their family’s, spiritual flourishing…
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‘No One Was Paying Any Attention to the Sky’ Review
To be sure, Fr. Ference’s discussion is the clearest and most comprehensive of these influences available in O’Connor scholarship.
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What’s In a Name?
When Jesus speaks our name, he addresses our true identity, for he knows us better than we know ourselves.
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It’s Time to Recover Emotion in Religion
It’s time to recover an appreciation of emotion in religious experience, not at the expense of reason but guided by reason, as Aquinas says.
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What I Saw When the Hostages Came Home
I don’t know a lot about what will come next. In those moments of reunion, I saw God. And that is enough for now.
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“The Materialists” knows what love is not. But the film offers no alternate vision of what love is. Unable to make the leap from hunting Unicorns to an alternative vision of love and gift of self, the film falls back on a cliché.
Read NowI am unsure whether God ever came to speak to me during those years because I had surrounded myself with such a wall of noise. Any pangs of conscience not drowned out in the noise I outran with constant motion. The voice did not return immediately. But when it finally did, I would not mistake it again.
Read NowBecause we are made to be in communion with the Truth, diabolic forces target our ability to trust and to have faith. Beneath “The Exorcist”’s special effects we can find a theological insight—with the help of Jesuit William Lynch—that can serve as a light and a source of hope in trying times.
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