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Election Day Thoughts
“Cultures are constituted by the union of the living and the dead in rituals of living memory. Never before … has the authority of the past been sacrificed with a more conscious effort of forgetfulness. Forgetfulness is now the curricular … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, forgetfulness, forgetting, Henri de Lubac, memory, mission, Phillip Rieff, society, the Church
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a solitary Christian…without earthly hope
Rereading what Hans Urs von Balthasar (quoting in passing Dietrich Bonhoeffer) has written brings to mind the role that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is now performing for the Church and the world. “There are moments when a solitary Christian undergoes … Continue reading
Thanksgiving…and a note from St. Hilary
There is so much for which we are grateful today: our families, our friends, our faith, and for all those who have inspired us and encouraged our efforts. We thank God for such blessings and we thank you for your … Continue reading
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Tagged Arianism, persecution, St. Hilary of Poitiers, Thanksgiving, the Church
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A Thirst for Communion
“The story is told of a priest who, shortly after apostatizing, said to a visitor who was about to congratulate him: ‘From now onward I am no more than a philosopher – in other words, a man alone.’ It … Continue reading
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Tagged apostasy, communion, Henri de Lubac, the Church
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Keep the Faith
Here is something Joseph Ratzinger told an interviewer in 1996, before he became pope: “ . . . the church lives not only synchronically but diachronically, as well. This means that it is always all—even the dead—who live and are … Continue reading
Expecting Advent
The season of Advent has always been a time of expectation ever since the first one in that dusty corner of the Roman Empire. The Latin root meaning expresses just this sense of ‘what is to come’. But, what to … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, apocalypse, climate change, Heraclitus, Mary, the Church
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“Joy is in the gift of the Church”
The shabbiest tuppeny doll will rejoice a baby’s heart for half the year, but your mature gentleman’ll go yawning his head off at a five-hundred franc gadget. And why? Because he has lost the soul of childhood. Well, God has … Continue reading
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The Church is the place
“The Church is the place where the process of conforming humanity to the person and event of Christ is begun, the place where men dedicate themselves, in a faith that listens and obeys, to this event that is a person, … Continue reading
The nature of the Church…
“It is in the nature of the Church to provoke the anger and attack of the world.” Hilaire Belloc, who made this remark, pointed out that it is not heresy to reject Christianity. Heresies, he correctly observed, leave many or … Continue reading
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A Sunday Afternoon Thought . . .
Russell Shaw: “The persecution of the Catholic Church and other morally conservative religious bodies has begun in the United States. … “This new persecution currently has two prongs. “One consists of pressuring individual religious believers to cooperate with public policies … Continue reading
