First Things RSS Feed - Eamon Duffy https://www.firstthings.com/author/eamon-duffy en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:59 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/eamon-duffy 60 The End of Christendom https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/11/the-end-of-christendom https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/11/the-end-of-christendom Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0400 Reformations:
The Early Modern World, 1450–1650
 by carlos m. n. eire
yale, 920 pages, $40

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]]> To Fast Again https://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/03/to-fast-again https://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/03/to-fast-again Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0500 The renewal inaugurated by the Second Vatican Council sprang in large part from the liberating discovery of the depth and variety of Catholic tradition. Yet paradoxically the post-conciliar reforms were sometimes implemented in a spirit of philistine dismissal of “tradition” as nothing more than the dead hand of the past. In shedding a past perceived as sterile and oppressive, much that was profound and life-giving was also lost. One of the saddest casualties of that process was the effective abolition of the Church’s ancient observances of fasting and abstinence.

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