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Don’t ever let a Protestant skeptic tell you veneration of Mary is unbiblical.
Anyone who takes the truth of the Incarnation seriously must accept Mary as the Mother of God, a title which demands some degree of honor to the…

Q: Okay, so what is the Christian account of how revelation occurred?
As Elmer Fudd might say, “Vewy, vewy swowly.” Divine revelation didn’t happen in a blinding flash—such as God dropping the Summa Theologiae on top of a mountain and…

SHORT FEATURE: EXTINCT PINK

by David on March 27, 2013 · 0 comments

So this week for Aleteia I reviewed The Croods, a movie I felt managed to pull a last minute save and extract itself from the near-omnipresent “children know best” theme found in most other animated features these days. Be warned,…

An education in truths that cannot be expressed in words 
In his book, the Love of Learning and the Desire for God, Jean Leclerq describes various tensions playing out in education in the medieval period.

One arises from the love…

HUNTER PREY

by David December 3, 2012

THE PLOT
“A group of intergalactic soldiers fight for their lives on an inhospitable desert planet after their spaceship crashes while transporting an extraterrestrial prisoner. When their captive stages a daring escape, the soldiers receive orders to bring it back…

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Is The American Bible Challenge O.K. for Catholics?

by Dan Lord July 17, 2012

It has been said that “war divides, game shows unite.” Actually, that has never been said until this very moment, when I made it up, but it is certainly true. I myself have (semi) fond memories of my entire family…

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What We Can Learn From the Enlightenment

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. July 4, 2012

In the days when states were still “the colonies” and men wore powdered wigs, a new way of thinking captured the intelligentsia of the western world.  “The miracle stories in the Bible and the lives of the saints may be…

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Biblical Illiteracy and Bible Babel

by George Weigel May 10, 2012

One of the disappointments of the post-Vatican II period has been the glacial pace of the growth in Catholic biblical literacy the Council hoped to inspire.  Why the slow-down? Several reasons suggest themselves.
The hegemony of the historical-critical method of…

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Married Saints from the Bible

by Theresa Doyle-Nelson April 17, 2012

Pope John Paul II seemed to have a special desire to recognize married couples who lived saintly lives.  He strove to have some of these holy couples canonized, likely so they could serve as role models for living married couples. …

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Jimmy Carter, Biblical Scholar and Theologian

by George Weigel April 12, 2012

Given the specter of James Buchanan, the question of whether Jimmy Carter was the worst president in the history of the Republic must remain unresolved; yet there is no doubt that Carter is the worst ex-president ever. Having failed to…

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