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St. Patrick’s Day is a new kind of “Ireland Day,” really, and the celebrations reflect the spirit of the times.
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“The Atheist’s Guide to Reality” is refreshingly and ruthlessly consistent. It is also utterly incoherent, precisely because it is so consistent. |
From the archives:
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Catholic education requires willing and able faculty committed to Catholic education; if you aren’t intentional about hiring Catholic educators, you won’t have them, and if you don’t have them, you can’t have a Catholic university.
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Tune into R. R. Reno’s lecture on “Christians in the Face of Political Polarization” Wednesday with Angelicum.
angelicum.it/event/jpii-lec
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“Transgenderism is an even more powerful expression of this desire to overcome limits.” | R. R. Reno
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The Revoice project has taken on board all the trappings of sexual identitarianism, from “preferred pronouns” to queer theory to the splintering of attendees into “affinity groups” based on their particular orientation. |
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A St. Patrick‘s festival poster presented the patron saint of Ireland reinvented as a female stripper or a drag queen, or some fusion of the two.
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Nobody, absolutely nobody, has managed to understand Pope Francis. |
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“Hallelujah” may have the 12/8 timing and major chords that work so well for gospel music and wedding processionals, but it’s ultimately a story of fear and failure. |
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Martin Luther considered himself a Catholic? Todd Hains and Mark Bauerlein discuss:
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Our post-1960s world offers the good life to the knowledge class, but lacks any approved or positive vision for others.
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How are transhumanism and transgenderism related? They both seek to transcend the limits of a finite body.
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Tune into R. R. Reno’s lecture on “Christians in the Face of Political Polarization” Wednesday with Angelicum.
angelicum.it/event/jpii-lec
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When rainbow colors were projected onto the White House, the symbolism was broader than the celebration of any one Supreme Court decision. |
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CLCR is undertaking due diligence. It is analyzing publicly available data to discover patterns of sexual misconduct among men who have promised to remain celibate.
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I wrote for about how nobody—and I mean nobody—has come up with a good explanation of the Francis pontificate
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The ten years of Pope Francis can be described as ten years which have destroyed a great deal and created almost nothing. |
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“Nevertheless, the audiences are not wrong about “Hallelujah”—they rarely are. What they hear is the promise of transcendence and redemption.”
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First Things Magazine editor R.R. Reno discusses the rise of transgender ideology and its roots in the progressive movement.
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Cohen’s themes are familiar—faith, inspiration, despair—but the uplift of the first stanza is surprising given the broodiness of so much of his work. |
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The monarchy thus fulfills a Jungian role as theater of archetypes: good prince, bad prince, virtuous daughter-in-law, wicked daughter-in-law. |
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One finds so many incisive critics assuming noms de guerre because anonymity protects them from the Center’s reprisal, freeing them to say the unsayable. |
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As part of our data analysis work, we learned that some clergy were publicly advertising their interest in actions that contradicted their promises of celibacy. We as a Church can choose to acknowledge and confront this, or not.
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Only political bias makes it possible to call one group of people “indigenous” and accuse the other of “colonialism” just because a few decades separate the dates of their immigration.
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Any attempts to install a Catholic Lite version of Vatican II will ultimately fail, but much pastoral damage will be done in the interim.
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Strong families teach love. They teach peace. They teach respect for others. What better remedy for our current civic discord?
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Monitoring clergy for violations of the promise of celibacy is primarily about the integrity of the Church’s leadership and its ability to remain true to its own standards and commitments.
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Our April issue is live! Don’t miss R. R. Reno on Ukraine, Carl Trueman on Roger Scruton, James Keating on the Catholic University, and much more.
firstthings.com/issue/2023/04/
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Perhaps because Marie was a woman, and a laywoman at that, too few noticed or cared as she was slowly written out of both European and Church history over time.
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What do you do after you’ve shuttered the DEI initiatives, fired the worst professors, cracked the whip with the rest, abolished the most useless administrative positions, instituted rigorous grading, and hired a few big names?
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Wondering what to read next? Fear not! John Wilson has some suggestions.
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CLCR is helping bishops discharge their duties of oversight, among the most important of which is to discern who is and is not fit for service among those ordained to the priesthood.
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Dana Gioia‘s new book of poetry contains a ballad retelling of his vaquero great-grandfather‘s life. Listen to him recite it in Mark’s latest!
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The Border is alive with transformational and destructive energies; an agile, discerning Center institution will harness the former for renewal, while seeking to defuse or to redirect the latter. |
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When we learned legal ways to understand risks to the health of the Church beset by technology—including the use of hookup apps by clerics—we studied that and shared it with bishops.
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Men and women are sexually dimorphic manifestations of the same kind of being: a rational creature ordered to excellence. |
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"What is a woman’s place in society? From Plato & Aristotle to Margaret Sanger & RBG, certain patterns are discernible in how this question has been answered. The most cogent answers...integrate three basic aspects of who we are as human beings."
firstthings.com/article/2023/0
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Happy International Women’s Day! Symposium of responses to follow in the coming weeks @FairerSexFD
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