De Regno Christi

Have you read William Lind’s on Pope Benedict’s Counter-Reformation?  Writing in the American Conservative, Lind points the way forward toward the reunion of the Western Church.  His position may be utopian, but it is right on. Lind writes: “For Rome, there is a possible way around this wall rather than over it: status quo ante. Anglican [...]

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http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2010/bbirzer_newrepublic_feb2010.asp I should’ve included two other excellent Catholic scholars from Hillsdale–Stephen Smith and Nathan Schlueter.

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Ralph McInerny died this past weekend. Death is, of course, as much a part of life as living is.  No one escapes it.  And, yet, we never get entirely used to or comfortable with it.  At least, I don’t.  Memories of the loss of a daughter and grandfather still haunt me.  And, yet, I love [...]

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Have you seen this bru-ha-haa?  Here Why is Palin consistently so quick  endorse and enforce the pseudo-morality of political correctness? It scares me that Evangelicals are as likely to use the tools of political correctness as liberals.  I think it betrays common presuppositions based on a common cultural heritage.  Save us from the righteousness of [...]

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