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How preoccupation with sexual sin can stunt holiness
Even we devout Catholics can go down a rabbit hole when interpreting Our Lady of Fatima’s warning about the sins which most often send us to hell—and this rabbit hole is one among many that we ought to know only too well by now. In the case considered here, if we do not find sins of impurity in our selected rabbit hole, we may miss the point of her Portuguese apparitions. For what if we find sins of self-righteousness or lack of generosity or attachment to our own wills?
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Atheist Comedians
Irony requires the ability to contrast the way things are with the way things should be. Religion has similar qualities.
Confronting deep-rooted Evangelical hostility in Trump vs. Leo fallout
For the sake of the causes we share, Evangelicals should know how their recent cheering for attacks on the Holy Father looks to their Catholic allies.
The SSPX, the German bishops, and the parable of the two sons
The unavoidable implication is that “an ordinary parish” is not associated with the true Church of Jesus Christ—and the SSPX is. That is a claim the Sovereign Pontiff cannot accept.
Our dumb and deaf spirits are hard to drive out
When we live with ultimate meaninglessness long enough, all that matters is the effort to enjoy the “now”. We learn to take our pleasures where we can and for as long as we can. We lose our desire and even perhaps our capacity for eternity. We accept the inevitability of death by frittering our time away in present pleasures. If there is an after-life, we will enjoy it; and if there is no after life, well then, we will no longer care.
Trump’s false charge against Pope Leo
If we are willing to give President Trump the benefit of the doubt, and assume that his intent is more reasonable than what his actual words convey, we should extend the same courtesy to the Pontiff.
Is Brideshead Revisited (1981) the perfect book-to-screen adaptation?
Brideshead Revisited is much discussed as a beloved Catholic novel. But it is also perhaps the only instance of a great book getting a screen adaptation that is equally good - almost to the point of being interchangeable with the book. We refer, of course, to the 1981 miniseries, not the 2008 movie! James Majewski, Nathan Douglas, and Thomas Mirus discuss what makes this series such a great work of adaptation.
Speaking about art and God in L.A.
Thomas Mirus is giving the keynote address at the Thomistic Artists Guild conference in L.A. on May 30.
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