New Oxford Notes: November 2013
The Poor Misunderstood Pope?
While Pope Francis doesn't deny the truth or the faith, he implicitly calls some of it into question, not only by his call for a re-ordering of priorities, but through his uncertain and inexact language.
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Enlightenment philosophers undermined religion but failed to provide a workable substitute, and the void they created continues.
Reading as Sacrament
Good books aren’t highways or avenues of mass transport. They’re foot trails, the kind that are traveled single file or not at all.
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