The Tamed Liberal West Doesn’t Understand the Threat of Islam (Chronicles): “25 years after the 9/11 attacks, the West is not exporting democracy; it’s importing Islam.”
Tracking Catholic Belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist (What We Need Now): “What rate of belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist did our latest evaluation yield? The answer: 29 percent.”
TAC-Sponsored Johns Hopkins Study Details Changes in the SAT (Thomas Aquinas College): “On Thursday morning, Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Education Policy released a new study — sponsored by Thomas Aquinas College — that compares earlier versions of the SAT with the test as currently administered.”
Oates vs. O’Connor (First Things): “From where I stand, Oates’s shameful attempt to discredit the faith of a talented Catholic writer who was an unflagging champion of orthodoxy and who died of lupus six years before Oates won the National Book Award for Them in 1970 seems like a textbook case of what philosophers call ressentiment.”
Venite ad me (2) (Charlotte Was Both): “We have migrated from the heart of the Gospel to other issues that are neither understood nor appealing without that heart.”
China-Shop Bull & Lord of the Manor (The Imaginative Conservative): “While José R. Ayllón’s new popular biography of Chesterton, translated by Aurora Rice, may not be quite in the ranks of Melville, Dickens, and Austen, I must say that the opening line is in that category: ‘This is an attractive biography because Chesterton is an attractive figure.’”
The Georgia Martyrs: Dying for the Sanctity of Marriage (The Catholic Thing): “After two years of preaching the Gospel to the Guale people along the coast of modern-day Georgia, Friar Pedro de Corpa had much to be thankful for.”
‘Woe To Me If I Do Not Preach’ (The Catholic Thing): “It is difficult to proclaim Christ in conditions of hostility, as I know only too well from more than ten years helping persecuted Christians across the Middle East.”
Leo XIV: A Pope who wants to be a Citizen (Monday Vatican): “The Pope himself, through the Holy See Press Office, announced that he wanted to vote and encouraged all citizens to do so.”
God does not bless sin: the theologian who criticized that document joins the Theological Commission (Infovaticana): “Claudia Leal Luna, professor at the Juan Pablo II Institute and consultant to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith since 2024, described the anthropology of the document that denied those blessings as ‘somewhat taxidermic’ in 2021.”
Christianity and Slavery in the 12th Century: Ransoming Captives and Counterintuitive Intercession (Fr. David Langford – Substack): “Everyone has the same God in heaven who created all men to be equal and not slaves by nature.” – Pope Alexander III
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