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A Married Priesthood? A Meditation on Mandatory Celibacy: The Witness of Damien Alfonso Bergman
This blog post is very personal to me, for reasons that will become clear. It is also a post that might generate some controversy since it is on a hot
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Vatican II as a Ressourcement Council. Part One: Father Robert Imbelli's Conciliar Retrieval
“In its penetrating analysis of “the modern world”, the Second Vatican Council reached that most important point of the visible world that is man, by penetrating like Christ the depth
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The Hermeneutics of the Abyss: Some Thoughts on Traditionis Custodes
Joseph Ratzinger, in his marvelous book, “Introduction to Christianity,” speaks about Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and her temptations to atheism and despair. And all of these temptations came despite the
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Balthasar, Universalism, and the “Massa Damnata” Part Two: a Defense of Adrienne von Speyr
Ralph Martin, in his latest book “A Church in Crisis,” has some very uncharitable things to say about the mystic Adrienne von Speyr that merit a response. Although he does
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Universalism, Balthasar, the Massa Damnata, and the Question of Evangelization
If you want a dog whistle guaranteed to summon a pack of barking traditionalists just mention the names of either Hans Urs von Balthasar or Bishop Robert Barron. The former
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The Valor of the Unshielded Heart: A Lenten Meditation
“But … the situation in which this truth emerges is now that of suffering … which lays man bare in his vulnerability, forcibly exposing and humiliating him. Only a great and majestic
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The Constantinian Heathenism of the Church: Joseph Ratzinger and the Crisis of our Time
“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
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The Choice: Bourgeois Well-Being or Conversion to Christ: Beige Catholicism and the Challenges of the Young Priest
“Today Christians are faced with a no less heavy responsibility. There is always a temptation for religion to ally itself with the existing order, and if we today ally ourselves
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The McCarrick Report and the De Facto Atheism of the Church
Several people have asked me to comment on the recently released McCarrick report and so I thought I would offer the following brief comments. I will return to my series
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