“Gloria Dei est vivens homo.” ∼ St. Irenaeus Saint Irenaeus (130-202) wrote that the glory of God is revealed in living human beings; this idea expresses one of the most central ideas of the primitive Church and the period of the Fathers, that of deification or theosis (becoming god-like). This constant theme within the first Christian millennium …
Source: Our Secular World Needs Christian Personhood – Crisis Magazine
COMMENTARY: Humanity’s increased preoccupation with ‘dying with dignity’ is a worrisome sign for our future.
Source: When the ‘Right to Die’ Becomes the ‘Duty to Die’ | ncregister.com
And last, the rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done, and been; the shame Of things ill done and done to others’ harm Which once you took for exercise of virtue. ∼ T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding, in Four Quartets Author and culture critic par excellence, Mary Eberstadt, has chronicled the shift among …
Source: The New Darling of the Abortion Rights Movement – Crisis Magazine
Should Christians face unethical uses of biotechnology with despair and resignation or with hope and determination?
Source: Immoral Uses of Biotechnology — Even With Good Intentions — Are Evil | ncregister.com
The Holy Father also said Feb. 5, ‘We Christians are recognizable as true disciples of Christ in our actions.’
Source: Pope Francis: ‘Each Life Is Sacred’ | ncregister.com
No matter how strong the “spirit of antimary” may be, Mary still remains the most powerful woman in the world.
Source: If There is an Antichrist, What About an Antimary? | ncregister.com
In an obscure article entitled “Catholics and Liberals: Decline of Détente,” in America magazine in 1974, the eminent Catholic scholar and historian James Hitchcock discussed a profound change that had occurred in American liberalism and argued that its new thinking put it increasingly at odds with Catholicism. Hitchcock was one of a number of writers …
Source: What Happened to American Liberalism? – Crisis Magazine
