William Lane Craig and Evangelicalism’s Trinitarian Deficit (First Things): “William Lane Craig has recently caused some consternation by saying he does not confess the faith of the Nicene Creed. The reaction is understandable.”
The Mass: Our Intimate Encounter with the Transcendent Lord (What We Need Now): “Every Mass is an encounter through God’s invitation into heavenly worship, through communion with Christ, and through our being sent forth into the world as missionary disciples to help others encounter God as we have.”
Just war doctrine and Congress’s war powers (Edward Feser): “…President Trump’s war on Iran fails to meet several of the conditions of traditional just war doctrine. Not the least of these is the ‘lawful authority’ condition.”
Pope Leo personally ordered Vatican to stop using Rupnik images (The Catholic Herald): “It was Pope Leo who personally ordered the Vatican to finally stop using Rupnik images less than a month after he was elected, according to the bishop of Lourdes.”
Chesterton and the Tyranny of the Medical State (The Paradox Press): “Dr. Fell might have been a fictional representation of the doctors claiming total control over a society. Dr. Fauci is not.”
Return of the Common Good (American Mind): “Why can’t we think more deeply and dialectically and move beyond dichotomies that distort much more than they illuminate?”
People are reacting to this rather viscerally, but I think it calls for a more thoughtful response … (Amy Welborn on X): “One day the nuns were in full habit teaching us Aquinas, and the next they were in regular clothes playing us the Vatican Rag.”
Vatican–China Contentious Accord: How the Holy See Is Appeasing a Communist Regime (The European Conservative): “By continuing the agreement with the CCP, the Vatican is essentially supporting its distortion of religious practices and is perilously nearing complicity in the escalating human rights violations within the country.”
Backsliding: On the paradox of willpower (Harper’s Magazine): “Some people spend their whole lives fighting other people, or institutions, or fate. Then there are those of us whose greatest battles are waged against ourselves.”
Reviving a Catholic intellectual community (American Catholic Quarterly Review): “At its founding, the ACQR was, and understood itself to be, the successor to Orestes Brownson’s Quarterly Review, which for three decades prior had been the premier national journal of opinion for Catholics.”
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