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Whether or not our daily deeds are as grueling as St. Patrick’s, there's nothing like good music to put the sun back in the sky.
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The purpose of public discourse is to persuade opponents to change their views for the better, not to terrify them into silence.
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Have you listened to Mark Bauerlein’s latest on John Henry Newman and the future of the Church with Matthew Levering?
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Politics, like our salvation, is personal and therefore vulnerable to the abuse of our free will. So what would a political solution based on grace look like?
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By choosing local businesses we support people we actually know, rather multinational companies that do not share our values and do not care about our communities or our nation.
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You will hardly find a melody more pleasant to the ear or rhythmic for the foot than an Irish one—whether it's about a fair maiden, a pint of drink, or being decimated in battle.
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At Stanford Judge Duncan was Othered—seen not as a human being but as an idea that needs to be erased.
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Rebuilding local economies is a crucial step toward restoring a sane and functional culture.
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Papal autocracy has created a miasma of fear. Parrhesia is not the Roman order of the day, except in private.
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Love is the great enemy of the ego. It teaches us a painful lesson: We cannot give ourselves what we truly desire.
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It is through the resistance felt during labor in the world that one gains respect for the world—and a sense of place.
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Carl Trueman speaks on the cultural chaos and damage resulting from the gender ideology movement. | From the archives:
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Side B‘s promised “vocation of yes” was always bound up with things to which the sincerely struggling same-sex attracted believer must say “no.” |
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What happens when, almost overnight, a society flips to trashing and trampling on its bedrock belief system?
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Giving more of one’s money to one’s neighbors and less to Jeff Bezos is a good place to start.
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The somber mood in Rome these days reflects embarrassment over the dramatic decline of the Vatican’s moral authority in world affairs.
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Revoice has a consistent pattern of setting up gay Christians as authoritative voices of change and shaming churches that don’t follow their prescribed language and policy adjustments. |
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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. |
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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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