It’s inevitable that we’d have a moment with our friend Darwinian Larry in the technology class. The Louis C.K. moment was not inevitable. Who would have guessed he would have provided a “teachable moment” about Pascal? I watched most of the Emmys at a time most TV lovers . . . . Continue Reading »
The problem isn’t that Pope Francis doesn’t understand our context , nor that we don’t understand his allusions to St. Vincent of Lérins . . . but that we don’t understand his audience , says Elizabeth Scalia in today’s On the Square : Pope Francis has redefined . . . . Continue Reading »
The problem isn’t that Pope Francis doesn’t understand our context, says Thomas G. Guarino in today’s On the Square ; the problem is that we don’t understand his theology: Throughout his work, however, Vincent ardently insists that “development” can never mean a . . . . Continue Reading »
This evening, First Things premieres its series of art exhibits with Life Drawing by Joshua Cave . Cave, a versatile artist working as a painter, sculptor, installation artist, and writer in New York City, received his BFA from Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA in 2008. Working with diverse forms . . . . Continue Reading »
A Teacher and Her Student Thessaly La Force, Vice The Robot and the Master Jonathan Pageau, Orthodox Arts Journal An Argument Against Christian Materialism on a Pro-Life View Alexander Pruss’s Blog Debating Constantine David Swartz, Anxious Bench The Wagnerian Pope Alex Ross, The Rest is . . . . Continue Reading »
An update on the California headscarf litigation I discussed earlier this month. Abercrombie & Fitch has settled the lawsuit and agreed to allow Muslim employees to wear headscarves while on the job. A federal district court in California recently ruled that A&F’s refusal . . . . Continue Reading »
Commentators speak of Pope Francis as “pastoral,” and some juxtapose his approach to the previous two pontificates. I find this unpersuasive because it is too vague. To my mind a key difference between John Paul II and Benedict on the one hand and Francis on the other is their attitudes . . . . Continue Reading »
The profusion of “recovery memoirs” in the last ten years has been so abundant as to make a person ask where the genre has been all this time. The modern concept of addiction, as distinct from mere sinfulness or deficiency of willpower, has been around for two hundred years. For . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Sullivan , not surprisingly, joined the stampede of those who found in the famous interview with the pope a Francis who doesn’t actually exist, complete with readings of his predecessors that missed the point of what they’d said. It’s the old story of dissident . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Sullivan calls me a reactionary and legalist (he is only half right) and describes Pope Benedict as “a fabulous flurry of fabric and jewellery,” about which he is altogether wrong. Sullivan’s statement is typical of the belief that Pope Benedict has an inappropriate love . . . . Continue Reading »
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