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The Holy Week Reader—Thursday: Go and Do Likewise - Providence
19+ hour, 58+ min ago (283+ words) By Marc LiVecche on April 2, 2026 For when your longings center on things suchthat sharing them apportions less to each,then envy stirs the bellows of your sighs. As Virgil says to Dante in the lines immediately following the quote further…...
The Holy Week Reader—Wednesday: Volo Ut Sis - Providence
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (487+ words) By Marc LiVecche on April 1, 2026 I have always found the depths of that kind of love difficult to comprehend. At the heart of The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt posits her fundamental claim that the opposite of totalitarianism is love…...
The Holy Week Reader—Tuesday: Living Faithfully Under Sentence of Death - Providence
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (330+ words) By Marc LiVecche on March 31, 2026 That anyone would choose enmity against him was a source of grief to the Messiah, as clearly evidenced by his lamentation over the capital city: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and…...
The Holy Week Reader—Monday: A Savior Who Overturns Tables - Providence
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (409+ words) By Marc LiVecche on March 30, 2026 Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. He…...
How American Politics Became Footnotes to Catholicism - Providence
1+ week, 6+ day ago (103+ words) By Jozef Andrew Kosc on March 20, 2026 1. We Believe, Bellew Publishing Company Limited, 1994: p. 251 2. Gilbey, We Believe, p. 252 3. R. A. Markus, Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of St. Augustine, Cambridge University Press, 2007 [1970]: p. 157." 4. James Chappel, Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking…...
Haga Sophia and the Persistence of Sacred Memory & Conflict - Providence
3+ week, 3+ day ago (87+ words) By Dermot Curtin on March 10, 2026 Dr. D.P. Curtin is an Irish-American psychologist, translator, and theologian. He holds degrees from Villanova University, Chestnut Hill College, and Chatham University. His work has appeared in'First Things,'VoegeinView, Psyche Magazine, Public Orthodoxy, Covenant, and'Catholic Exchange....
The Essential Affinity between Christianity & the Military - Providence
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (543+ words) By Robert Hasler on February 19, 2026 The church in America is hurtling toward a demographic cliff. So say the experts, and they have the numbers to back it up. Boomers make up a significant percentage of evangelical church membership, and though…...
Charlie Kirk and Natural Law: How a Created Order Enables Public Discourse - Providence
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (166+ words) By Andy P. Schmitz on February 2, 2026 Charlie's love for natural law is not a matter of speculation. He explicitly attributed his worldview to it as a guest on Alex McFarland's podcast one week before his assassination: Isaac TuttleNovember 13, 2025 Ed TarnowskiApril 11, 2025 Jeffery…...
Respect Natural Law, if Not International Law - Providence
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (128+ words) By Aaron Rhodes on January 26, 2026 While often abused by kings and popes, the failure to constrain absolute power has commonly been seen as an abuse of natural law. " Natural law is the source of standards regarding the moral equality of…...
The Daniel Option: America’s Vocation Between Crusade and Retreat - Providence
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1163+ words) By Emir Phillips on January 21, 2026 A city can be conquered long before its flag is lowered. Sometimes it is conquered by cold. Moments like this expose a persistent fracture among American Christians. When the world grows harsher, we tend to…...