Letters to the Editor: September 2024

Christ Our Mascot?... Clearing Out the Smoke... Mixed Marriages & Religious Indifferentism... Too Breezy a Dismissal... Communicating Something Essential... and more

The News You May Have Missed: September 2024

Religion of Terror... Husker Heaven... Gravitas in a Bikini?... Avenger’s Endgame... Desperately Seeking Exposure... The Happy Humanoid... and more

Wrestling for Truth with ChatGPT

THE PERILS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Bob Weil

Every technological development, at least up until now, has created a new tool that can be pressed into the service (or disservice) of man.

Two Monasteries Quite Contrary

MODERN BENEDICTINE & EASTERN ORTHODOX

Thom Nickels

Russian Orthodox theologian Vladimir Soloviev considered himself both Russian Orthodox and Catholic, as both Churches are truly apostolic with valid sacraments.

A Machiavellian on the Throne of Peter?

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

Francis’s soundbite approach to theology has been a disaster for the Church. But worse have been the machinations from which the dissembling serves to distract us.

A Requiem for Old Rosy

WILLIAM STARKE ROSECRANS, CONVERT & WAR HERO

Casey Chalk

Rosecrans had a reputation as a vocal Catholic with an aggressive evangelizing impulse. He kneeled alongside his soldiers at Mass, and regularly prayed the Rosary.

The Universal Dimensions of the Incarnation

GUEST COLUMN

Thomas J. Kronholz

The Creator’s assumption of a created nature has effects that reach all of time and space — a truth supremely realized in the administration of the sacraments.

Holy Days of Obligation Abroad

GUEST COLUMN

J.C. Miller

The Church’s universal laws bind everyone, but those who find themselves in a foreign territory are not obligated to observe universal laws that are not in force there.

Reading as a Spiritual Discipline

Thomas Banks

Whether it is a good or a bad reader who opens every new book with the prayer to be challenged and improved by it, it is certainly a rare one.

Briefly Reviewed: September 2024

Here we review 'Septology' by Jon Fosse and 'President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier' by C.W. Goodyear