Materialism
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A Brush with Evil
Not so long ago, I shook a man’s hand. He was a man I barely knew. All looked ordinary, “normal” with him. I would never have guessed that something was seriously amiss. Yesterday I learned that he had stabbed his partner to death. And then he took the knife to himself. They both had children…
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Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and Supernatural Mystery
Charles Taylor is, no doubt, a genius. But what his brilliant A Secular Age misses in its analysis of Catholic tradition is an account of Supernatural Mystery …
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Musings: Tomberg and Global Warming
2023 Update: What we have here is the third of a series of musings on Tomberg and the world tragedy, written many years ago, when this site started in 2009. For navigation purposes, we list and link the three parts here: And now back to 2009 — RB. Authority … one has authority or competence…
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Global Warming and Catholic Response
In 1891, Pope Leo XIII brought forth the encyclical Rerum Novarum. It was a milestone in the Catholic Tradition, inaugurating a new era of Papal Social Encyclicals responding to the social injustice of the modern world. The latest being the magisterial Caritas in Veritate of His Holiness Benedict XVI. In Rerum Novarum Leo XIII challenged…
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Valentin Tomberg: The Judas Kiss of Demythologisation
In my last weblog entry, I made reference to the materialism of the liberal Protestant theology of the likes of Rudolf Bultmann. And I noted briefly that this materialism had now tragically made its way into Catholicism, as well. Thus do I recall the teaching of a certain Jesuit, who explained the Crucifixion in terms…
Foreword for Monarchy by Roger Buck
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