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Category Archives: Religion
Mother Teresa and the Cult of Suffering
Mother Teresa has been canonized today. The new saint’s record is more complicated than either her critics or her fans like to acknowledge, but this balanced piece by Mari Marcel Thekaekara in the Guardian is worth a look. Towards the … Continue reading
Posted in Religion
Tagged Mother Teresa, Roman Catholicism, saints, Suffering as a blessing
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Trump on God
CNN (from last year): “Well I say God is the ultimate. You know you look at this?” Trump said, motioning toward an oceanfront golf course that bears his name. “Here we are on the Pacific Ocean. How did I ever … Continue reading
ISIS, God and The Devil
Austen Ivereigh’s defense of Pope Francis’ response to ISIS appears to be, well, evolving. Just the other day, he was arguing this: [ISIS] is a wholly modernistic creation, a vehicle of power, the “technocratic paradigm” of domination and exploitation, applied … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Religion
Tagged ISIS, Islamic fundamentalism, Pope Francis, Religious Left, terrorism, The Devil
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“Paris Vaut Bien Une Messe”
Politico: Trump met with hundreds of evangelical leaders in New York earlier this week, and while some well-known figures — such as Liberty University’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr. — have endorsed the candidate, others are more hesitant to do so. … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Religion
Tagged 2016 Elections, Donald Trump, Religious Right
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“On the Ideology of Anti-Islamophobia”
An interesting criticism of the notion of “Islamophobia,” translated from French, has made an appearance at Charnel House, a Marxist blog that’s nearly equally fascinated by architecture. (They say the last remaining Marxists are to be found in English departments, but … Continue reading
Doubt as Sin.
In the course of reading around a story about how the Portland Public Schools board has unanimously approved a resolution aimed at “eliminating doubt” about climate change and its causes in schools, I came across this quote from Nietzsche (It’s … Continue reading
Rome, Brussels and Ventotene
Cross-posted on the Corner: Writing in Britain’s Catholic Herald, Ed West reports on the attitude taken by the Vatican to Brexit. I touched on this last week in a discussion on the award to the Pope of the Charlemagne prize, … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State, politics, Religion
Tagged Altiero Spinelli, Brexit, Charlemagne Prize, EU, Pope Francis, Roman Catholicism, Vatican
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The Pope, the EU and the Charlemagne Prize
Cross-posted on the Corner One thing about this pope: When it comes to political matters, he has an unerring ability to be on the wrong side of the issue. Vatican Radio: Pope Francis on Friday received the International Charlemagne Prize of … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State, history, politics, Religion
Tagged EU, Pope Francis, Roman Catholicism
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The “God Gap” Shrinks in a Trump v. Clinton Matchup
This from Religion News Service: The Battleground Poll has the Clinton-Trump God gap at under 15 points, with those who say they go to church at least once a week preferring Trump to Clinton by nine points and those attending less … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, religion
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Freeloading and Virtue-Signaling: Roman Catholic Opposition to ‘Just War’ Theory
National Catholic Reporter: VATICAN CITY The participants of a first-of-its-kind Vatican conference have bluntly rejected the Catholic church’s long-held teachings on just war theory, saying they have too often been used to justify violent conflicts and the global church must … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State, politics, Religion
Tagged Just War, Pacifism, Pope Francis, Religious Left, Roman Catholicism
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