Two Cheers for Idolatry
David Carlin: Deep down we have a sense that holiness is the one thing that matters most. Catholicism once did a great job of satisfying it.
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David Carlin: Deep down we have a sense that holiness is the one thing that matters most. Catholicism once did a great job of satisfying it.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2021 | Cormac McCarthy, iconoclasm, News, The Dispatch, Willa Cather | 0 |
Like many reverts to the faith, my second conversion, as it were, was prompted in no small part by an intense study of the Church Fathers and encounters with Beauty. Not one to have given […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 23, 2020 | 2020, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christological heresies, Columns, Creator God, Fr. Paul D. Scalia, iconoclasm, Jesus Christ, News, Protestant revolt, rejection of authority, The Author’s Voice, The Catholic Thing, Tu es Petrus | 0 |
Fr. Paul D. Scalia: People reject authority, including the Church’s, yet they are never free from authority. They simply become subject to its counterfeits.
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Fr. Gerald E. Murray: The Church needs courageous Catholics who are well instructed and are not fooled by slogans and coercive shaming campaigns.
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Across the developed world, ignorant mobs and anarchists are tearing down statues of saints, defacing church monuments, and setting the churches on fire. Not to mention that in the developing world many Christians continue to suffer martyrdom by the thousands at the hands of secular and religious extremists. This has caused many people to finally […]
by bcadmin | Jun 26, 2020 | 2020 election, Black Lives Matter, Donald J. Trump, Featured, George Floyd, iconoclasm, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
When the attacks—legal and otherwise—on Confederate monuments and heritage began to ramp up, I warned in various venues that it would not stop there. And, of course, such disparate characters as Kate Smith and Columbus followed in that train. But ever since the eruption of riots across the nation and the rest of the Western […]
by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2020 | Catholic Living, Featured, George Washington, iconoclasm, News, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
The third Monday in February—latterly called “Presidents’ Day” because of Lincoln’s birthday on the 12th—is legally Washington’s birthday. Of course, his actual birthday is February 22, and I am old enough to remember getting off from school on that day, whenever it fell. But in 1971 Congress’s Uniform Monday Holiday Act took effect, banishing this […]
by bcadmin | Jan 20, 2020 | Andy Warhol, Catholic Living, Featured, iconoclasm, Kanye West, Marco Rubio, News, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
In 2018, I wrote a column for my then-employer, the Catholic Herald, titled “Andy Warhol’s Devotion Was Almost Surreal”; the piece became our most-read article of the year. It followed on the announcement that the Vatican Museum would be exhibiting a few of Warhol’s works in the Holy See. Social media was abuzz with the […]
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