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The Fourth Crisis Of The Church & Pope Francis
In lieu of our continuing tour through Summa Contra Gentiles, this post. The site that hosts the book is having hiccups---a subject which I know all about. Let's pray it's…
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Predictions For 2015—Re-Register Yours Today!
This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. Would you mind pretty please making the predictions again? Happy New Year! Hangover? Since…
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Another Puzzled Atheist Wonders Why Religion Persists
Orientation quiz. True or false: periodically, some societies have gone insane. The answer is True, true with bells on. Many examples will suggest themselves. Thing about these cultural sanitariums is…
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Do Sunspots Shorten Lives By 5.2 years?
This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. I have no idea what the answer to that question is. And I doubt…
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The 2014 CS Lewis Lecture By RR Reno: The Piety of Pedagogy. Guest Report by The Blonde Bombshell
The working topic for the lecture was "CS Lewis: First and Second Things", no doubt inspired by the words of the Master himself, and perhaps with a wink toward a…
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Pregnant, And No Civil Rights?
Now there's nothing more wearisome than a discussion of "rights"; and having one on a Monday may be unforgivable. But I beg the reader's indulgence as last Friday's New York…
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Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity (And Catholicism)
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogcast Summary Against Modern Thought to bring you breaking news: Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity. In what should have been…
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Humanae Vitae & The Sexual Revolution: Theories And Predictions
This corrected post originally ran 14 May 2014. But given rumblings in the Church, that it is Lent, and the importance of the message to all of us, it is…