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This is astute: Christopher Nolan again demonstrates the central thesis of Tom Holland’s DOMINION: So profound has been the impact of Christianity on the development
One of the stranger paradoxes of our time is the death of the virtues of faith and reason among the Greatest Christians of All Time,
Over at his Substack: Toward the end of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Matt Damon’s Odysseus has a despairing line clearly influenced by an aphorism from the
Most people know there is a rather intimidating portrait in the Old Testament of a stormy Yahweh thundering from Sinai. It is a portrait to give one healthy pause. It reminds us that “our God is a consuming fire” (Hebrews 12:29), the awful and perfect Judge who can see into
Everybody knows that the Old Testament is full of rules aimed at keeping Israelites from ritual defilement–rules which no longer bind Christians. We tend to read these regulations through a pair of glasses that has one lens from the ancient Christian tradition and one from a modern, post-Enlightenment perspective. The
St. Paul’s place in the Church has been a bone of contention ever since he was knocked off his horse by our Lord on the way to Damascus. He was a mass of paradoxes that seemed (to those who did not understand him) a mass of foolish contradictions. How do
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Greetings! I’m Mark P. Shea, a Catholic author and blogger who’s also done a spot of podcasting and even acting here and there, as well as radio and TV work. My latest book, The Church’s Best-Kept Secret: A Primer on Catholic Social Teaching was published in September 2020 by New City Press. Other works include By What Authority?: An Evangelical Discovers Catholic Tradition (Ignatius), Mary, Mother of the Son, This is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence (Christendom), and Making Senses Out of Scripture: Reading the Bible as the First Christians Did (Basilica), Salt and Light: The Commandments, the Beatitudes, and a Joyful Life (Servant), The Heart of Catholic Prayer: Rediscovering the Our Father and the Hail Mary (Our Sunday Visitor) and The Work of Mercy: Being the Hands and Heart of Christ (Servant).
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