Atonement, Theosis & St. Paul Patrick Henry Reardon, Preachers’ Institute Are You Really Calling for a Schism, Tony Jones? Billy Kangas, The Orant Dissident Gardens Hal Parker, American Reader Bones of the Book Robert Moor, n+1 Catacombs on Google Elise Harris, National Catholic Register . . . . Continue Reading »
One: Liberalism’s Inevitable March Suffers a Serious Set Back I guess today is TNR day on pomocon! That’s because the source of this argument, TNR editor Franklin Foer , is more important than the argument itself. Still it’s no slouch argument: Liberalism has spent the better part . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Tuesday! Here’s what we have for you to read today. Over at Postmodern Conservative , two short (even Leithartian) posts from Peter Lawler as he reads the New Republic : why Malcolm Gladwell makes you stupider , why the Iran deal is doomed . Quoth Maureen Mullarkey : “The lunatic . . . . Continue Reading »
In the blogging world, what follows is known as a “bleg”: As some First Things readers know, in my day job, I’m the Director of the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University in New York. The Center has its own blog, the Center for Law and Religion Forum , which . . . . Continue Reading »
“New Pew Research Analysis Finds No Clear ‘Pope Francis Effect’ Among U.S. Catholics” reads the headline of a press release from the Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project. The release explains that though 79% of American Catholics rate the pope . . . . Continue Reading »
As middle age begins to bite and life’s pleasures become either more vicarious, whereby one lives through one’s children, or less impressive, as with one’s ever-diminishing speed on a long distance run, one delight that actually becomes ever more gratifying is having one’s . . . . Continue Reading »
So, in the interest of delaying real work, I’m continuing my tour of THE NEW REPUBLIC. Here’s another illuminating article. Gladwell contributes to our democratic denial of personal sovereignty by reinforcing the ridiculous idea that “the . . . . Continue Reading »
Read this incisive article. Does anyone with any sense really believe that our “deal” with Iran will do anything of consequence in slowing its progress toward acquiring nuclear weapons? Its effectual truth is to make things easier for Iran on the sanctions front and the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Long, Slow Death of the Senate Robert W. Merry, National Interest The Council and the Question of Salvation Thomas Joseph White, O.P., Catholic World Report Where Equal Is Worse? Kay Hymowitz, Family Studies “The Cave and the Light”: True, But Not True Enough Joel Gehrke, Federalist . . . . Continue Reading »
Pope Francis has issued an Apostolic Exhortation titled Evangelii Gaudium . The Pope presents the “Joy of the Gospel” in its wholeness, which has been the theme of his pontificate from the very beginning. Among many other things, including our obligations to the poor and the duty . . . . Continue Reading »
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