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What a pastoral Church would look like
We hear the word “pastoral” quite a bit today, but the intended meaning is sometimes puzzling. I try to straighten everything out in my latest piece at Crisis Magazine.Published elsewhere online
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Theory, practice, and the Church
What’s all this about doctrine versus discipline in the Church? I try to unriddle some of the considerations in my latest piece in Catholic World Report.Published elsewhere online
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What should we do about natural law?
I’ve published the first of a series of pieces about natural law and how to bring it more public attention at Catholic World Report.Published elsewhere online
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Liberalism, conservatism, and Catholicism
I explore the differences and connections among the three tendencies in my latest piece at Crisis Magazine.Published elsewhere online
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Pieces published elsewhere
I’ve been busy, and haven’t been adding links to new items published at other sites. I think these will bring me up to date:The True Benedict Option for Our Time. A Crisis piece commenting on the need...
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Liberalism as a religion
I discuss the religion of liberalism at Sydney Traditionalist Forum.Published elsewhere online
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Tradition: its necessity and discontents
My current column at Catholic World Report goes into those issues.Published elsewhere online
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Rights and choice as supreme standards
Crisis Magazine has something I wrote on the topic.Published elsewhere online
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More Thoughts on a Pastoral Church
My June piece at Crisis Magazine discusses why current ways of speaking about the matter don’t make a lot of sense.Published elsewhere online
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When should we ignore tradition?
My most recent piece in Catholic World Report suggests grounds for ignoring tradition.Published elsewhere online
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For the restoration of reason and reality
Current inCrisis Magazine: my piece on restoring sanity in an age that disintegrates thought.Published elsewhere online
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What to do in odd circumstances
I talk about American Catholics, the Benedict Option, and the Overton window in my latest piece at Catholic World Report.Published elsewhere online
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Brexit, Trump, and identity
That’s the topic of my latest column in Catholic World Report. There are cracks in the post-identitarian global order, and it’s driving people bonkers.Published elsewhere online
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Liberalism vs the good
There’s an interview with me on that topic over at The Ordeal of Consciousness.Published elsewhere online
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In praise of exclusion and marginalization
I have a piece on some such topic over at Crisis Magazine.Published elsewhere online
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The technocratic war on traditional identities
Such is the title of my latest column over at Catholic World Report.Published elsewhere online
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Norms, abnormality, and false liberation
I have a column in the current Catholic World Report on the effects of normalizing sexual oddity.Published elsewhere online
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More on marginalization and its paradoxes
Once more I discuss marginalization at Crisis Magazine, this time with an emphasis on its inevitability and its growth under a regime of global inclusiveness.Published elsewhere online
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When love, mercy, and dignity lose their meaning
My new piece at Crisis Magazine deals with the Christian and the secular liberal understandings of those things.Published elsewhere online
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Dictatorship and relativism
What sense does it make to speak of a “dictatorship of relativism? I discuss the point in Catholic World Report.Published elsewhere online
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