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by bcadmin | Oct 10, 2022 | Columns, Ecclesia et Civitas, Features, government, integralism, liberalism, News, secularism, totalitarianism | 0 |
A couple of months ago, I wrote an anodyne column about integralism, the view that political should be subordinate to spiritual authority. It said that today the subordination would be reversed in practice. Its real […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | civilizationi, Jesus Christ, News, secularism, Ten Commandments, The Dispatch | 0 |
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword” (Mt. 10:34). The bloodshed and pain of a sword – metaphorical or literal […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 6, 2022 | entertainment, Featured, News, secularism | 0 |
Entertainment makes up a great portion of our lives. I myself grew up in the era of the Star Wars prequel movies – and to this day, I’m still a pretty big fan. The thrill of watching the hero win for the millionth time never gets old, and reinventing that same narrative with a new […]
by bcadmin | May 15, 2022 | Abortion, Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna, euthanasia, Hospice, lead, Malta, News, News Analysis, secularism | 0 |
There’s one corner of Western Europe where the divorce between faith and culture is still playing out in real time: The tiny island nation of Malta.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | Africa, Algeria, conversion, England, France, George Orwell, News, Père Charles de Foucauld, secularism, The Dispatch | 0 |
On May 15 the Catholic Church will canonize Père Charles de Foucauld, a missionary priest active in French Algeria just over a century ago. But his rank of sainthood comes with rancor. Critics of France’s […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 26, 2022 | Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Church in the US, lead, Mass, News, secularism, Vatican II | 0 |
When Bishop Athanasius Schneider assesses the state of the modern Church he sees a period of liturgical exile, of Eucharistic crisis, that permeates from a “distorted understanding of what is really the Holy Mass.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 17, 2022 | Beer, doctors of the Church, Just war theory, Marriage, News, Religious Freedom, secularism, St. Valentine, The Dispatch, totalitarianism, War | 0 |
Totalitarian ideas are now out in the open: “Quick: what do you think when someone tries to convince you of something by prefacing their remarks with the phase ‘Experts say’” ?A plague of phony experts […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 14, 2021 | Archdiocese of Boston, Archdiocese of Portland, Bishop Edward Burns, Church in the US, Diocese of Brooklyn, Helen Alvare, lead, Marriage, News, secularism, Timothy O'Malley, USCCB | 0 |
When Bishop Edward Burns on November 6 celebrates the annual diocesan Mass for newlyweds he views it as a way to reassure them that the diocese is committed to them, which he says is essential nationwide.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 18, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholic University of America’s Sociology Department, Catholicism, Columns, decline go religious faith, decline of family life, decline of sexual morality, Evelyn Waugh's Christianity and Chaos, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Mary Eberstadt, Mary Eberstadt's "The Cross Amid the Crisis", News, Pius XI Award for Building Up a True Social Science, secularism, Society of Catholic Social Scientists, The Catholic Thing, University of America Institute for Human Ecology. | 0 |
Mary Eberstadt: We live by a truth that should stiffen our spines: chaos has been whipped into catastrophic strength by secularization.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 10, 2021 | Belgium, Decomissioned Churches, Flanders, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, secularism, Sicily, sociology, Teachers, Western Europe | 0 |
In western Europe, the church is undergoing a long-term transition from a culture-shaping majority to an optional subculture, sometimes in harmony with the broader majority and sometimes at odds with it.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 2, 2021 | human dignity, Losing Our Dignity, News, secularism, The Dispatch | 0 |
“The culture of relativism is the same disorder which drives one person to take advantage of another, to treat others as mere objects, imposing forced labour on them or enslaving them to pay their debts. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 5, 2021 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Catholic Church, Catholic news, France, News, secularism, The Dispatch | 0 |
Strasbourg, France, Jul 5, 2021 / 05:45 am Cardinal Pietro Parolin said on Sunday that Europe needs faith in God as it struggles with a “demographic winter.” Preaching at Mass in Strasbourg Cathedral in France […]
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