In a blog entry at Catholic World Report, I comment on incipient second thoughts about the direction liberalism is going from Democratic commentator Kirsten Powers.
Those are the topics of my two most recent online columns, one at Crisis Magazine about how to infuse politics with a bit more soul, and one at Catholic World Report about why the Church can’t possibly use modern public language to speak to modern man.
I have an additional piece on the topic up at Catholic World Report. The basic point is extra ecclesiam nulla subsidiaritas. You’re not going to get subsidiarity apart from an understanding of the world that doesn’t seem to exist in secular public thought today.
That’s the original title of my latest piece at Crisis Magazine. It says that the dispute between progressive and traditionalist Catholics is a dispute over whether the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church has an essential nature.
Crisis Magazine has published the first part of a two-part piece on inclusiveness that gives a thumbnail sketch of the argument of my recent book on the topic.
For some reason people find my new piece at Crisis optimistic. I’d say rather that it refuses to be pessimistic: disaster is never absolute, it doesn’t last forever, and it may not go as far as feared, so don’t give up.
I have a new column up at Catholic World Report about the troubled relation between the Church and those who define reality in the secular world, and what to do about it.
I have another piece on the Windsor decision, this one at Crisis Magazine. It deals with the increasing radicalism, mindlessness, and intolerance of mainstream progressive thought.