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What are Catholics to do? (part III)

May 3, 2013 by James Kalb

There’s some more of my hand-wringing on the topic over at Catholic World Report.

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Needed: more pith and vinegar

April 17, 2013 by James Kalb

I’ve a piece calling for a return of the right wing aphorism up at Crisis Magazine.

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Tolerance that swallows itself

April 15, 2013 by James Kalb

My review of The Intolerance of Tolerance, a book by reformed theologian D. A. Carson, is available at The University Bookman.

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What Are Catholics To Do? (Part II)

April 15, 2013 by James Kalb

I have more comments at Catholic World Report about what Catholics and other sensible people should do when natural law has been declared a hate crime.

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The triumph of stupidity

March 26, 2013 by James Kalb

I’ve a new piece up at Crisis Magazine on that alarming topic.

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Beauty, saving the world, and similar topics

March 21, 2013 by James Kalb

I have a short piece up at Solidarity Hall, a site that seems fairly new. It’s a comment on a much longer piece by Mark Signorelli, his review of the book Beauty Will Save the World by Gregory Wolfe.

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What are Catholics to do?

March 7, 2013 by James Kalb

That’s the title of my current column at Catholic World Report. Basically it says we have to drop out from a radically technocratic world.

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The Church and the Constitution

February 9, 2013 by James Kalb

My new column is up at Catholic World Report. Basically, it says that the American political order needs to adopt Catholicism as its ethos to restore what’s been good in it.

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Should lesbian priests be allowed to marry each other?

February 5, 2013 by James Kalb

I have a snappily-written piece up at Crisis Magazine that discusses “gay marriage,” “woman priests,” and (best of all) the New World Order.

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Tardy reflections on the election

January 24, 2013 by James Kalb

My current column is online at Catholic World Report. Instead of talking about the stupid party and the evil party I talk about the party that believes in nothing and the party that believes in Nothing, but it comes to the same thing.

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