Category: modernity

John XXIII’s original intention for Vatican II

by bcadmin | Oct 12, 2022 | Jesus Christ, modernity, News, Pope John Paul II, The Dispatch, Vatican II | 0 |

Sixty years after its solemn opening on October 11, 1962, is there anything new to be said about the Second Vatican Council? I think there is. And I hope to have said it in To […]

Vatican II, Sixty Years On

by bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | 1962, ecumenical council, Features, History, Liturgy, modernity, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Second Vatican Council, St. John Henry Newman | 0 |

October 11th marks the sixtieth anniversary of the formal opening of the Second Vatican Council. In the lead-up to that day in 1962, my fifth-grade teacher, Sister Regina Rose (who just died last year at […]

The death of Queen Elizabeth II and the growing cult of disenchantment

by bcadmin | Sep 14, 2022 | England, Features, modernity, Monarchy, News, Opinion, Queen Elizabeth II | 0 |

I was supposed to be in England for a conference and other work-related events this week, but twenty-four hours before we were set to fly, Queen Elizabeth II died. For a variety of good reasons, […]

C.S. Lewis vs. Roy Lichtenstein: On why the great books bore us

by bcadmin | Sep 9, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Cezanne, modernity, News, Odyssey, Roy Lichtenstein, Shakespeare, The Dispatch | 0 |

Strange as it may sound, C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) hated cars. And newspapers. And zippers. Really. What are for most of us the banal and indispensable necessities of daily life, were, for Lewis, icons of modernity. […]

Secularization, Marxism, and the Enlightenment in Augusto Del Noce

by bcadmin | Jul 23, 2021 | Augusto Del Noce, Christopher Dawson, enlightenment, Essay, fascism, Features, Marxism, modernity, News, Philosophy, Pope Benedict XVI, progressivism | 0 |

It is common today to hear people talk of secularization. It is particularly frequent in the discourse of people who see it as a problem. However, it is often the case that the term is […]

All Systems Go, Part Two

by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2021 | 2021, acceptance of homosexuality, Anthony Esolen, Anthony Esolen's "All Systems Go: Part Two", Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, destruction of the family, Hollywood, Marriage, modernity, News, Post-Modernity, sin-riddled world, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

Anthony Esolen: When it comes to marriage, our Church has lately accepted a secular foundation. Don’t expect a cathedral to rise from that.

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What to do? Views from the past

by bcadmin | May 3, 2021 | Carol Jackson Robinson, Columns, Ecclesia et Civitas, Features, modernity, News, Romano Guardini, technocracy | 0 |

Catholics today are in a difficult position. They have come to believe that active involvement in social and political life is a basic part of living the Faith. But the general conditions leading to that […]

Building Anew a Christendom for Our Modern Age

by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2021 | Christendom, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, modernity, News, The Facts of Life | 0 |

Building Anew a Christendom for Our Modern Age The Facts of Life Series: The Future and Christendom But, His hope, His expectation is that all who believe in Him would be one. One just as He and the Father are one. He says this explicitly three times in these brief verses. And it is His last and summative instruction before going to the Garden of […]

“Male and Female He Created Them, and He Blessed Them”

by bcadmin | Feb 15, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, modernity, News, The Facts of Life | 0 |

The Facts of Life Series: Men & Women Now, as orthodox Catholics, we live as strangers in a strange land. Just look at the many modern confusions we must cope with and confront. Think of the preposterous problems of gender or the perversity of sexual orientation. Think of the fallacious flaws in feminism and the purportedly […]

Modernity as Apocalypse outlines and offers a tonic to idolatry

by bcadmin | Feb 7, 2021 | Books, Charles Taylor, Features, James Kalb, modernity, News, nihilism, nominalism, Religion, René Girard, sacred | 0 |

Christian writers have become adept at passing judgment on modernity and tracing its historical development through the development of liberalism. They typically note how late medieval nominalists, Protestant reformers, philosophers such as Descartes, …

The Constantinian heathenism of the Church: Ratzinger and the crisis of our time

by bcadmin | Feb 5, 2021 | Features, George Bernanos, heathenism, Joseph Ratzinger, modernism, modernity, News, Opinion, Paganism, Vatican II | 0 |

“The appearance of the church in the modern era shows that in a completely new way it has become a church of heathens, and increasingly so: no longer, as it once was, a church made […]

Even Now, Religion Remains a Fact of Life

by bcadmin | Nov 30, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, modernity, News, Religion, The Facts of Life | 0 |

Even Now, Religion Remains a Fact of Life The Facts of Life Series: Religion Religion and politics are the two topics we are so often told to avoid in conversation, as they are two of the most contentious topics there are in life. This cautious counsel has a continuity over time as to be a common cultural maxim, a primary principle of public discourse […]