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On the matter of Christ’s alleged appearance among men, an event which we call the Incarnation of God, there is little room to maneuver once you’ve eliminated either madness or mendacity as an explanation for it. Leaving what? Only the bedrock certainty that it happened, which is to say, a miracle. And because that’s the…
When President Joe Biden was asked by EWTN correspondent Owen Jensen what Easter means to him, he responded, “Time for forgiveness and people getting together, and a little bit of love and no phoniness. Be straight with people.” At first hearing, it might be shocking to hear a self-professed Catholic define Easter without mention of…
So the promised Easter document on human dignity has been released. By Catholic standards the document is quite problematic. However, by the standard of this pontificate, it is not as bad as it could have been. In any event, the document may indicate that Francis is pumping the brakes, which would be good news. But…
Leading up to April 8th, the internet morphed into a sea of apocalyptic theories. Reminders of doom, prophecies, and an urgent plea to “read the signs” filled news articles and Christian commentators’ platforms. We were on the precipice of an eclipse, and clearly, that must mean we were on the threshold of theapocalypse. People dismissing…
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published a declaration, Dignitas Infinita, on April 8 (though it predated it April 2, supposedly to coincide with the 19th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s death). The declaration is divided into two parts: a general discussion of “dignity” as the organizing concept of the document and…
In my study of the current crisis in the Church, I have learned that it can all be summed up by one core problem: a collective lowering of the bar. Every parent, teacher, coach, manager, supervisor, or babysitter knows that children are overachievers. They will do anything they can to meet your expectations, no matter…
Recently an old friend passing through town stopped by for dinner. As family physicians and contemporaries who have confided in each other through professional and personal events over the years, my friend (I’ll call him Tom) and I reminisced about how much the world—and the practice of medicine—have changed over the years. At one point,…
March saw the YouTube release of Guardians of Tradition, the third and final episode in the Mass of the Ages trilogywhich chronicles the liturgical changes since Vatican II and shows the appeal of the traditional Latin Mass (TLM). I have two slight criticisms of this episode, but it concludes a valuable mission and should be…
Above: the ugly “progress of human dignity” on display in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro. Yesterday I discussed some of the important aspects which contextualise the new document on the “infinite dignity” of the human person (Dignitas Infinita). Without claiming to be an exhaustive analysis, we intend here to present the conflicted nature…
“These are my people,” I thought to myself as I listened to the panel of speakers. Or at least as much as people I had never met could be. And I never did meet any of those speakers as it turns out. It was the last day of the “Symbolic World Summit,” in Tarpon Springs,…
