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Recreational Catholicism? Let me explain. It is an attribution identifying the current stage of collapse in the Roman Church. Its coinage is meant to convey the tangled knot of the therapeutic, political, theatrical, and ego-massaging trend besetting the Church, all of which produces a kind a zombie Catholic, who is daily fed on what Huxley…
I don’t know much about Medjugorje. What I do know is that Dr. E. Michael Jones and Mr. Michael Davies never agreed on much during the latter’s lifetime. Davies and Jones had a famous debate over the SSPX “back in the day” as we say in the States: Davies was a longtime leader in the…
In my hometown of Chicago, supporters of Hamas recently protested in front of the Israeli consulate, where they burned American flags. (Why not Israeli flags? Can demonstrators have burned so many that there is now a shortage?) Lovers of theater should note the quality of the protestors’ dialogue: Protester: “So let’s go to those war…
Last week, I had a serious disagreement with a fellow teacher who also happens to be a good friend. Later that evening, I saw where I went wrong: I had not presented my side clearly. I saw my friend the next day and explained myself with the assurance that this would clear up our differences….
St. Ignatius of Loyola was investigated by the Spanish Inquisition and was quite docile through the ordeal. Perhaps an echo of what he experienced can be heard in one of the principles he laid out in his Spiritual Exercises about putting the best construction on the expressions of other people that touch on God and…
Dear Conservative Dad, I know that you love your adult children. I have a few adult children myself, and my husband and I would do anything for them—as long as it is for their good, both temporally and eternally. We’d give our lives for them, both in service over a lifetime and literally; we would…
Last week we discussed the significant linguistic issue in the Vatican translation of the Pope’s Italian statement “Tutte le religioni sono un cammino per arrivare a Dio” which the live translator translated as “every religion is way to arrive at God.” In English, this phrase is heresy, pure and simple. The word “way” in English…
Who is in charge? The one who is the final arbiter of the truth. But what does that mean for a “post-truth” age? Do we trust Jesus, who claimed to be the truth? Or Pilate, the forerunner of deconstructionism and critical theory? Eric Sammons looks at the issue through the lens of the bewildered Catholic…
Whenever Pope Francis holds an interview on a plane, Catholics have learned to buckle up for turbulence. But on his way back from Singapore last Friday, after a lengthy trip to Southeast Asia and Oceania, the Holy Father answered a question pertaining to American politics with uncharacteristic and refreshing clarity—though not without a touch of…
One of my hobbies, as I often mention, is to collect and to read popular magazines published from around 1875-1910. I have about fifteen years of The Century, my favorite, another five or six of Scribner’s, five or six of Harper’s, and this or that of several others. Wherever I go in these, I am…
