Per Evangelica Dicta
How are we to understand the silent prayer after the Gospel at Mass: “Per evangelica dicta, deleantur nostra delicta: By the words of the Gospel may our sins be blotted out”? How does the reading of...
View ArticleFanaticism vs. Devotion
In a comment on my last post Michael Bolin does a good job of defending the Newman passage that I used to show that one should not be for moderation in religion, even in false religion. Nevertheless, I...
View ArticleWe Have Seen His Glory: a Response to a Certain Philosophical Rejection of...
In a guest post on Artur Rosman’s blog last year, I wrote that I could no more abandon Catholicism than I could “kill my parents with my bare hands and eat their flesh.” But of course “let him who...
View ArticleA Commanding Rhythm
In an excerpt from an introduction to a forthcoming collection of David Foster Wallace’s writings on tennis, John Jeremiah Sullivan, points out an analogy between Wallace’s own achievements as a writer...
View ArticleVon Balthasar and Benedict XVI on Anti-Semitism
Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord, vol 5, pp. 579-580: In his insatiable and hateful polemic against the Old Testament, Hegel pursues the one element for which he has no use in his...
View ArticleGuest Post: Anonymous and Utterly Silent Christians
I read Shūsaku Endō’s novel Silence many years ago, when I was about 16 or 17 years old. At the time I thought it scandalous. I wonder if I would have a different impression reading it today. When...
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