By James Kalb on Aug 20, 2019 03:59 pm
Liberalism tells us everyone should be able to do, be, and get whatever he wants, as much and as equally as possible. People believe that represents a new and higher stage in political and moral [...]
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By Dr. Samuel Gregg on Jul 02, 2019 09:22 am
Blessed John Henry Newman’s devastating critique of liberal religion remains even more relevant in our own time. [...]
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The Jerusalem Post
July 8, 2019
https://www.meforum.org/58900/jesus-was-not-a-palestinian
Dusty Gates
In his brilliant Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman writes eloquently of the power of the Catholic Church to assimilate non-Christian, and even heretical, beliefs into her own Tradition. He writes about the Church as being able to stand firm among various philosophies, dogmas, and cultures as one who […]
By Daniel McCarthy on Jul 19, 2019 10:00 pm
The Enlightenment may well be the end of an old story rather than the beginning of a new one. The philosophy of insatiable appetites changed the Christian-Aristotelian moral order into the modern world, but now that the change is just about complete, what purpose does its catalyst serve? Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites ...
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By Joseph G. Trabbic on Jul 31, 2019 01:32 pm
The Catholic debate about the value of political and economic liberalism ebbs and flows. In the past few years in the U.S. it has become particularly public and intense (see here, here, here, here, here, [...]
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Last fall I cheered the impending news of John Henry Newman’s canonization, for which we now have a date: October 13 of this year. October happens to be the month in which, after many years [...]
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