Gaudium et Spes 22
"The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light."
The Constantinian Heathenism of the Church: Joseph Ratzinger and the Crisis of our Time
“The appearance of the church in the modern era shows that in a completely new way it has become a church of heathens, and increasingly so: no longer, as it
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Evangelization from Within Guardini’s “Threshold”
“There are those who experience profoundly the mystery of life at the threshold. They live decisively neither here nor there. They live in a no-man’s-land. They experience
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The Hermeneutic of Continuity: Part II. Pope Francis, Vatican II, and the Neo-Traditonalists
Before I begin today’s blog a note of terminological clarification is in order. In what follows I will often be referring to what I am calling the “neo-traditionalists”
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The Universal Call to Holiness: The Eucharistic Liturgy and the Unity of Sanctity and Sacrifice
“The profession ‘There is only one God’ is, precisely because it has itself no political aims, a program of decisive political importance: through the absoluteness that it lends the individual
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Bourgeois and Beige Christianity: The Prosperity Gospel and the American Cult of Mammon
In January of 2018, Kenneth Copeland, the octogenarian prosperity Gospel televangelist, took possession of a fifty-million-dollar Gulf Stream jet aircraft, for the purpose of helping him “spread the
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A Christmas Meditation: The Vulnerability of God
“In the child Jesus, the defenselessness of God is apparent. God comes without weapons, because he does not wish to conquer from outside but desires to win and transform us
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The Universal Call to Holiness: Five Kids and a Goldendoodle
I begin this post, as I sometimes like to do, with an admission. As I thunder and bluster about the bourgeois worldliness of the modern Church, and the need for
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The Choice: Bourgeois Well-Being or Conversion to Christ: Beige Catholicism and the Challenges of the Young Priest
“Today Christians are faced with a no less heavy responsibility. There is always a temptation for religion to ally itself with the existing order, and if we today ally ourselves
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What I Saw at the Abbey of the Genesee: The Crisis in the Church and the Universal Call to Holiness
I was reading an article the other day about an ongoing miracle in Italy that dates back to 1336. In December of that year a young, pregnant woman named Egidia
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Defending Vatican II: Has the Hermeneutic of Continuity Failed?
Before the advent of the papacy of Pope Francis it was possible to view the Church’s reception of the Second Vatican Council as one of creative continuity with the
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In Defense of Vatican II: Religious Freedom and the Insouciant Silliness of the Neo-Integralists
In the interest of full disclosure I begin with an admission. And that admission is that I am a hopeless Romantic who has read too much Tolkien and who longs
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The McCarrick Report and the De Facto Atheism of the Church
Several people have asked me to comment on the recently released McCarrick report and so I thought I would offer the following brief comments. I will return to my series
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