Paul Senz recently graduated from the University of Portland with his Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry. He lives in Oregon with his family. Dr. Brant Pitre is Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at the Augustine Institute in Denver, Colorado. He earned his Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, specializing in the study of the New Testament and ancient Judaism. The author of several acclaimed books for both popular and academic readers, his latest is Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah (Image Books, 2018). This book details the biblical foundations for …
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Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality
Dennis Prager (born 1948) is an American syndicated radio talk show host, syndicated columnist, author, and public speaker. Editor’s note: The following essay by Dennis Prager first appeared in the September 1993 print edition of Crisis Magazine. When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah’s prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later …
How the West Really Lost God
By Gerald J. Russello Gerald J. Russello is a Fellow of the Chesterton Institute at Seton Hall University and editor of The University Bookman. He is also the editor of the 2013 edition of Christopher Dawson’s Religion and Culture from Catholic University of America Press. Q: Thanks for joining us. Tell us the thesis of your new book. A: How the West Really Lost God opens with a review of the conventional arguments for Western secularization and observes that those arguments don’t adequately explain the decline of Christianity in certain parts of the Western world. If that’s correct—if, pace the …
Dawkins’ Unholy Trinity: Incoherency, Hypocrisy and Bigotry
By Scott Ventureyra Scott Ventureyra earned a doctorate in theology from Carleton University/Dominican University College in Ottawa, Canada in 2017. He has published in academic journals such as Science et Esprit, The American Journal of Biblical Theology, Studies in Religion and Maritain Studies (the journal of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association). He has also written for magazines such as Crisis and Convivium and newspapers such as The National Post, City Light News, The Ottawa Citizen and The Times Colonist. He is the author of On the Origin of Consciousness: An Exploration through the Lens of the Christian Conception of God …
The Strange Case of Dr. Biden and Mr. Hyde
Fr. George W. Rutler is pastor of St. Michael’s church in New York City. He is the author of many books including Principalities and Powers: Spiritual Combat 1942-1943 (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press) and Hints of Heaven (Sophia Institute Press). His latest books are He Spoke To Us (Ignatius, 2016); The Stories of Hymns (EWTN Publishing, 2017); and Calm in Chaos (Ignatius, 2018). Pictured above, former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to a crowd at a Democratic National Committee event at Flourish in Atlanta on June 6, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo credit: Dustin …
Researcher Links Abuse Crisis to Influx of Gay Clergy
In November 2018, Christian nonprofit the Ruth Institute, a group dedicated to researching the ruinous effects of the sexual revolution, published a groundbreaking study of the role homosexual clergy have played in precipitating the clerical sex abuse crisis in the United States. Authored by senior research associate Fr. D. Paul Sullins, Ph.D., the report titled “Is Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse Related to Homosexual Priests?” revealed a striking correlation between the rise in the number of homosexual priests and the explosion of clerical sex abuse. Analyzing data from the John Jay Report on sex abuse of minors and a Los Angeles Times survey reporting the number of …
Steve Bannon: Laity Must Act on Abuse Crisis
DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) – Steve Bannon says he thinks the sex abuse scandals are far from finished for the Catholic Church. In a telephone interview with Edward Pentin on June 4, Bannon commented on the Catholic clerical sex abuse scandals: I don’t even think we’ve even started the process. I think you’ll see a lot more [abuse cases] in Latin America, I think in Cuba, I think in sub-Saharan Africa, and in south Asia, and Europe. I think we’re at the very beginning of addressing this crisis in the Church on the pedophilia crisis. I don’t believe the spin that it’s all …
Buttigieg Says God Made Him Gay: A Retort from South Bend
By Adrian Reimers Adrian Reimers is an adjunct instructor at Holy Cross College. For seventeen years he taught philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has written extensively on the thought of Karol Wojtyla (St. John Paul II) and is the author of Hell and the Mercy of God (CUA Press, 2017) and co-author (with Miguel Acosta) of Karol Wojtyla’s Personalist Philosophy (CUA Press, 2016). Rebuking our former governor (and current Vice President), our mayor in South Bend tells us that it is his Creator who made him gay. Although he cites neither Scripture nor philosophical argument, Mayor Buttigieg …
Catholic Socialism Isn’t Catholic
My readership and the traditionalists in my parish exploded at the recent Catholic Herald article, titled “The Catholic turn to socialism is something to celebrate.” I am surrounded by socialists at work and have a lot of time for those with their hearts in the right place, especially regarding social justice. That said, I thought I would give Jose Mena, the “young Catholic socialist” who is mainly known on Twitter, a fair hearing and a brotherly critique. My political views have been described as a sort of medieval libertarianism, so I was delighted when I could say that I was …
Finish the Transgender Argument
By Robert B. Greving Robert B. Greving teaches Latin and English grammar at The Heights School in Potomac, Maryland. Mr. Greving served five years in the U.S. Army J.A.G. Corps following his graduation from Dickinson School of Law. After military service, he returned to Dickinson to study Latin and Greek. Originally from North Dakota, Mr. Greving earned a B.A. in history at Louisiana State University. Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” It’s a logic that would be refreshing these days. Here’s a variation that may help with some current controversies: If you want to end an argument, …