June 2019

  • I've often wondered, when listening to or reading someone who seems to be a really hardened anti-Christian, what it would take to crack that shell. I say "seems" because of course one can never tell from the outside what's going on inside a person. And I say "anti-Christian" rather than "anti-religious" or "anti-theist" because for…

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  • I can't imagine why The Atlantic thought it was a good idea not only to publish a piece written by an ex-Catholic-priest (and apparently more or less ex-Catholic) called "Abolish the Priesthood," but to put it on the cover. I suppose it might appeal to the average reader of The Atlantic as a step toward abolishing…

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