Catholic Orthodoxy Sinking In Liquid Modernity
Rocco Palmo, the well-sourced chronicler of the Catholic Church, can hardly believe what’s happening at the Amazon Synod: As trade-offs go, it would be one for the books – after traditionalist...
View ArticleThe Meaning Of Liquid Modernity
One of the most useful concepts for understanding the world today is the late Marxist sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s brainchild “liquid modernity.” I used it in The Benedict Option, and continue to find...
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Normalizing Polyamory
When I was in Hungary this past summer, I interviewed a married couple who had grown up in the 1950s and 1960s. One thing they told me was that the propaganda they were all fed constantly told them...
View ArticleThe Pachamama Pope
The statues of the fertility idol that vandals had removed from a Catholic parish in Rome and tossed into the Tiber have been recovered, said Pope Francis. Excerpt from his remarks: “Good afternoon, I...
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The Pachamama Synod Ends
Well, Pope Francis didn’t have the pachamama statues at St. Peter’s Basilica at the final mass of the Amazon Synod. Let’s be grateful for that, I suppose. Still, what happened this month in Rome...
View ArticleAmong The Counter-Revolutionaries
Sir Roger Scruton was a genuine hero of the anti-communist resistance in Central Europe. In the 1980s, he would travel to Czechoslovakia and Poland, helping set up underground universities, where free...
View ArticleFather Alexey’s Carpentry Shop
Today is my last day in Moscow. I went to the Divine Liturgy today at St. Seraphim of Sarov in Moscow’s Raevo neighborhood. It’s my translator Matthew’s parish, and he loves it intensely. There I met...
View ArticleBoomers Partied — Xers Got The Hangover
Some friends of mine are going through a very hard time right now. A close relative, a college student, recently took LSD, perhaps with a few of his buddies (this is unclear), and, in a psychedelic...
View ArticleBill Barr’s Blindness — And Our Own
Last month, when Attorney General Bill Barr gave a speech at Notre Dame about religious liberty, I praised him for his take on the importance of religion to our Constitutional order, and for pointing...
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Prophet Or Alarmist?
On Twitter today, a recent college graduate said, in response to my tweeting this week: I accept the criticism — to a point, and in any case I’m glad to be able to talk about this stuff. I laughed a...
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