TUESDAY, September 2, 2014 | Blessed John Francis Burté and Companions
ESSAYS and POSTS about the politicizing of the Bible, media
"nun-sense", the labor movement, "The Giver", false
Christs, the West and Islam, and more!
The Roots of the Political Use and Abuse of the Bible | Leroy Huizenga | Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wikers' book, Politicizing the Bible, examines how the development of biblical scholarship has severed Scripture from the heart of the Church.
TIME for some media "nun-sense"! | Carl E. Olson | TIME magazine's ridiculous solution for the sister shortage: do the same stuff that led to 50,000 women leaving religious life between 1966 and 1976.
The Labor Movement, Teachers Unions, and Catholic Social Teaching | Fr. George E. Schultze, SJ | Labor Day is an opportunity to reflect on work, education, and the proper role of unions in the light of Catholic social teaching.
"The Giver" and the Fading Memory of Christianity | Fr. Robert Barron | Lois Lowry’s story suggests, quite rightly, that suppression of the good news of the Incarnation is in fact what conduces to dysfunctional and dangerous totalitarianism.
The False Christs of Our Age | Carl E. Olson | The Gospel for this Sunday, August 31st, reveals how the line between salvation and Satan is marked by the Cross.
"Why a silence?": On the West and Islam | Fr. James V. Schall, SJ | Why are so many leaders and commentators afraid to speak out and speak clearly about the evil nature of the Islamic State?
Who Am I to Judge? Redux | Anne Hendershott and Fr. Dan Pattee, TOR | Christ teaches us to avoid those judgments that marginalize others—banishing them to the sidelines without any hope of returning to God.
Chronicling the “Last Ebbing Twilight of Byzantium” | Dorothy Cummings McLean | William Dalrymple’s 1997 travelogue From the Holy Mountain is an excellent place to start for Westerners seeking to understand the devastating decline of Christianity in the Middle East.
Outcry flares over California abortion push in Catholic colleges | CNA | "California Catholics are no longer safe to practice their faith within their own institutions."
Classical Education, Freedom, and the Ordered Soul | Fr. James V. Schall, SJ | Understanding is a spiritual thing, though rooted in really existing things, even ultimately in divine things
Metaphysics and the Case Against Secularism | Christopher S. Morrissey | Edward Feser’s new book, Scholastic Metaphysics, makes a strong case for the contemporary relevance of St. Thomas Aquinas’s philosophical reflections on Aristotle.
Prioress of Dominican Sisters in Iraq chronicles ISIS takeover, expresses fears and frustrations | Carl E. Olson | Sister Maria Hanna: "The disaster is overwhelming, and we are unable to comprehend it all."
What Should the October Synod Discuss? | Fr. Cormac Burke | Implicit in most media reports is the view that the Synod will pursue a liberalization of the Church’s present discipline. Why, really, has the Synod been convoked?
OTHER RECENT, POPULAR ARTICLES:
Finding What Should Never Have Been Lost: Priests and the Extraordinary Form | Jim Graves | Four post-Vatican II priests discuss how they came to know and love celebrating Mass in the Extraordinary Form.
The Church's Essential and Ultimate Mission | Carl E. Olson | Is the greatest duty of the Church and its faithful to feed the poor and take care of the needy?
Tolkien and Beowulf | Jerry Salyer | Tolkien’s newly published translation of the Old English epic beautifully demonstrates that there is more reality in folklore than in the perverse fantasies by which many live today.
Why I Love My Invisible Friend | Fr. Robert Barron | One of the most fundamental mistakes made by atheists is to suppose that God is a supreme being, an impressive item within or alongside the universe.
An Interview with Roger B. Thomas | IPNovels.com | The author of the forthcoming novel, The Accidental Marriage, discusses same-sex marriage, the role of the arts, and what it takes to write good fiction.
Secularism, Spirituality, and Witness in a Haunted Age | Carl E. Olson | The author of the new book, How (Not) to Be Secular, explains why secularism is misunderstood and exclusive humanism is not winning.
A Different Kind of Football Movie | Andrew Svenning | When the Game Stands Tall turns the usual formula for sports movies on its head, making for a thoughtful and inspiring film.
Slain journalist James Foley on praying the rosary in captivity | Catherine Harmon | "I began to pray the rosary. It was what my mother and grandmother would have prayed."
God’s Love for Us | Fr. David Vincent Meconi, SJ | The opening line of our Catechism teaches that God has created us simply to make us “sharers in his own blessed life ... his adopted children and, thus, heirs of his blessed life”.
The Roots of the Political Use and Abuse of the Bible | Leroy Huizenga | Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wikers' book, Politicizing the Bible, examines how the development of biblical scholarship has severed Scripture from the heart of the Church.
TIME for some media "nun-sense"! | Carl E. Olson | TIME magazine's ridiculous solution for the sister shortage: do the same stuff that led to 50,000 women leaving religious life between 1966 and 1976.
The Labor Movement, Teachers Unions, and Catholic Social Teaching | Fr. George E. Schultze, SJ | Labor Day is an opportunity to reflect on work, education, and the proper role of unions in the light of Catholic social teaching.
"The Giver" and the Fading Memory of Christianity | Fr. Robert Barron | Lois Lowry’s story suggests, quite rightly, that suppression of the good news of the Incarnation is in fact what conduces to dysfunctional and dangerous totalitarianism.
The False Christs of Our Age | Carl E. Olson | The Gospel for this Sunday, August 31st, reveals how the line between salvation and Satan is marked by the Cross.
"Why a silence?": On the West and Islam | Fr. James V. Schall, SJ | Why are so many leaders and commentators afraid to speak out and speak clearly about the evil nature of the Islamic State?
Who Am I to Judge? Redux | Anne Hendershott and Fr. Dan Pattee, TOR | Christ teaches us to avoid those judgments that marginalize others—banishing them to the sidelines without any hope of returning to God.
Chronicling the “Last Ebbing Twilight of Byzantium” | Dorothy Cummings McLean | William Dalrymple’s 1997 travelogue From the Holy Mountain is an excellent place to start for Westerners seeking to understand the devastating decline of Christianity in the Middle East.
Outcry flares over California abortion push in Catholic colleges | CNA | "California Catholics are no longer safe to practice their faith within their own institutions."
Classical Education, Freedom, and the Ordered Soul | Fr. James V. Schall, SJ | Understanding is a spiritual thing, though rooted in really existing things, even ultimately in divine things
Metaphysics and the Case Against Secularism | Christopher S. Morrissey | Edward Feser’s new book, Scholastic Metaphysics, makes a strong case for the contemporary relevance of St. Thomas Aquinas’s philosophical reflections on Aristotle.
Prioress of Dominican Sisters in Iraq chronicles ISIS takeover, expresses fears and frustrations | Carl E. Olson | Sister Maria Hanna: "The disaster is overwhelming, and we are unable to comprehend it all."
What Should the October Synod Discuss? | Fr. Cormac Burke | Implicit in most media reports is the view that the Synod will pursue a liberalization of the Church’s present discipline. Why, really, has the Synod been convoked?
OTHER RECENT, POPULAR ARTICLES:
Finding What Should Never Have Been Lost: Priests and the Extraordinary Form | Jim Graves | Four post-Vatican II priests discuss how they came to know and love celebrating Mass in the Extraordinary Form.
The Church's Essential and Ultimate Mission | Carl E. Olson | Is the greatest duty of the Church and its faithful to feed the poor and take care of the needy?
Tolkien and Beowulf | Jerry Salyer | Tolkien’s newly published translation of the Old English epic beautifully demonstrates that there is more reality in folklore than in the perverse fantasies by which many live today.
Why I Love My Invisible Friend | Fr. Robert Barron | One of the most fundamental mistakes made by atheists is to suppose that God is a supreme being, an impressive item within or alongside the universe.
An Interview with Roger B. Thomas | IPNovels.com | The author of the forthcoming novel, The Accidental Marriage, discusses same-sex marriage, the role of the arts, and what it takes to write good fiction.
Secularism, Spirituality, and Witness in a Haunted Age | Carl E. Olson | The author of the new book, How (Not) to Be Secular, explains why secularism is misunderstood and exclusive humanism is not winning.
A Different Kind of Football Movie | Andrew Svenning | When the Game Stands Tall turns the usual formula for sports movies on its head, making for a thoughtful and inspiring film.
Slain journalist James Foley on praying the rosary in captivity | Catherine Harmon | "I began to pray the rosary. It was what my mother and grandmother would have prayed."
God’s Love for Us | Fr. David Vincent Meconi, SJ | The opening line of our Catechism teaches that God has created us simply to make us “sharers in his own blessed life ... his adopted children and, thus, heirs of his blessed life”.
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