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Thoughts on ethnicity and related

March 22, 2024 by James Kalb

Ethnicity is a fraught topic, but I go into it and some related topics at Catholic World Report.

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Does feminism make sense?

February 8, 2024 by James Kalb

I complain about feminism in Catholic World Report, and answer the question with a “no.”

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Leave the world or embrace it?

January 4, 2024 by James Kalb
How do Catholics deal with a world that’s so stubbornly unmanageable? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
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Thoughts on listening, accompaniment, and synodality

December 4, 2023 by James Kalb

I make some rather skeptical comments on the whole listening, accompaniment, and synodality thing at Catholic World Report.

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Realities are greater than ideas

November 2, 2023 by James Kalb

So why do Synodality, Social Justice, and other utopian schemes fall on their faces? And how can we make our efforts more productive? I discuss at Catholic World Report.

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The Synod speaks

October 31, 2023 by James Kalb

I comment on the Summary Report of the first session of the Synod on Synodality at the Chronicles Magazine website. It’s not good.

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Technocracy and the sexes, part II

October 26, 2023 by James Kalb

I discuss current social and Christian misandry at Catholic World Report.

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Social justice and the moral life

October 26, 2023 by James Kalb

There is “social justice,” and then there is the moral life. What’s the connection? I discuss at Catholic World Report.

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Persecution then and now

October 26, 2023 by James Kalb

I discuss the concept of “soft persecution” at Catholic World Report.

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Sex, wokeness, and social justice

July 20, 2023 by James Kalb

Why “woke” social justice is not Catholic social justice: I discuss at Catholic World Report.

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    Sounds great. The liberal- technocratic is so all pervasive across the Western world including the Anglosphere and, within that category,…

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