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King Charles’s taking account of identity politics renders the monarchy redundant and makes a better case for republicanism than any contemporary British republican.
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Does the Supreme Court set the agenda for the Church? |
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Vincent Phillip Muñoz’s view of the “free exercise clause” is a narrow one—perhaps too narrow. Yet his argument is worth exploring. |
From the February issue:
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The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is straight out of Orwell. Listen in as Mark and Kursat Pekgoz discuss. |
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There is little doubt Luther himself would appreciate the small nuances added in the recent NRSVue translation.
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It is important to distinguish between “universal” and ”inclusive” when discussing the four marks of the Church.
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What happened to real poetry? Editor R. R. Reno and poetry editor Micah Mattix discuss in the latest episode of The Editor’s Desk. |
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If King Charles III bows to politics, then he will really be no more representative of the British nation than Biden or Trump is representative of the United States.
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Fr. James Martin and Cardinal McElroy’s denunciations of hatred against LGBT people could have been styled by Justice Anthony Kennedy. |
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“Tocqueville understood that there were two possibilities before us: equality of all in servitude or equality of all in freedom.”
Watch the full essay: youtu.be/nkOHlx1ErDA
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The NRSVue is surprisingly more evangelical than the “conservative evangelical” ESV and NKJV.
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The Catholic Church is a communion of men and women, all of whom struggle with human weakness. But it has also been given the truths that truly liberate by the Lord himself.
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Liberal American theologians may regard the redefinition of marriage as a limited, contained adjustment of doctrine. For Africans, to revise a part is to disrupt the whole. From the archives:
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We Americans are still awash in mediocre verse. The only difference between today and thirty years ago is that now people are reading it. |
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As ever for Paul, the “body” is both the body of individual Christians and the ecclesial body of Christ into whom they are incorporated, initially by baptism and ever more fully in the Eucharist.
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Should web designers be forced to make sites for same-sex weddings?
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“Tocqueville understood that there were two possibilities before us: equality of all in servitude or equality of all in freedom.”
Watch the full essay: youtu.be/nkOHlx1ErDA
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In this episode, George Weigel discusses how the Council’s texts are also a critical resource for the Catholic Church as it lives out its original, Christ-centered evangelical purpose.
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One should note that “inclusive” is not one of the marks of the Church given by Christ, although “universal” is. Distinctions, as ever, are important.
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The NRSVue improves upon the excellence of the NRSV in several subtle ways. Every serious Bible reader should check it out.
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Cardinal McElroy forgets that to “glorify God in your body!” is an essential part of building a relationship with him.
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Have you listened to Mark’s latest podcast? George Weigel discusses his new book, “To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II.”
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Identity politics is a deformation of Christianity, Dr. Joshua Mitchell argues.
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Cabined in small worlds of technocratic management, we seek to paint our lives on the canvas of history, sometimes with dark colors of doom, at other times with warm pastels of redemption.
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How many book reviews do we need? According to John Wilson, there are piles of worthy books that still need attention.
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Mardi Gras night in 1520s Paris, Jean Calvin, Ignatius of Loyola, and their bawdy friend Francois Rabelais find themselves mixed up in a gruesome murder — get your tickets to the premiere of “Sonnez Les Matines” to find out who’s guilty!
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Among the “structures and cultures” that serve effectively to exclude, Cardinal McElroy singles out the Church’s traditional moral teaching regarding human sexuality.
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In 303 Creative, the moral argument is simply not available. It was decisively ruled out by Justice Kennedy’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that installed same-sex marriage.
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There has been an incorrigible willingness on the part of lawyers to see legal decisions as judgments that may be readily detached from moral judgments.
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Mark Bauerlein and George Weigel discuss all the things you didn't know, or thought you knew, about Vatican II. Take a listen!
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“All human civilizations have had a scapegoating mechanism through which they can get rid of the impurities of the community. The Christian insight is that only a divine scapegoat can solve this problem.”
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By allowing parents to go their own ways when it comes to the education of their children, we can lower the temperature of our differences. Then we can get on with the business of building a common future.
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Why Read Great Books? Join the Morningside Institute at Columbia University for a conversation between Roosevelt Montás () and Zena Hitz ().
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“Youth has a principle of consolidation; we begin with the whole. Small sciences are the labors of our manhood; but the round universe is the plaything of the boy.”
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Theology subordinated to modern sensibilities yields all manner of absurdities.
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The Western Church is under pressure from all manner of social and cultural forces, how ought she to respond?
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Explicit barring of speech has become rather unfamiliar to us now, but even more lost to recognition these days is the animating logic behind this law.
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The queering of mainstream American culture has no more dramatic exemplar than the drag queen. |
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Twentieth-century feminist theology have sought to recover the agency of Mary, which feminists claimed had been lost in a tradition that privileged the maleness of Jesus.
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