Sin's The Thing
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Elizabeth Scalia coins a meaty term for the objectification of the human person: “thing-nifying.”
She does so in the course of a lovely reflection on sci-fi author Terry Pratchett, an avowed atheist determined to take his own life before recently-diagnosed dementia gets too bad.
Scalia doesn’t pound him, which is refreshing. I have less and less taste for simply seeing people drubbed, no matter how... READ MORE
To Whom Are We Speaking?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Wednesday, April 13, 2011
“She makes me a better liberal,” the woman wrote of her conservative friend in a post last week.
She meant that the act of having to defend her ideas honed them, forcing her not to be lazy.
In the opening conference of the Vatican’s new “Court of the Gentiles” initiative, Pope Benedict XVI says much the same about the role atheists play in the lives of Christians today:
Those of you who are non-believers... READ MORE
Court of the Gentiles
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Thursday, July 22, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has long had the re-evangelization of the West on his heart.
Just before he and the rest of the Vatican went on vacation, two major initiatives toward this end were announced.
First, there is now a Pontifical Council for Evangelization (here’s a column of mine with more on that) dedicated to renewing faith in places where the Gospel has already been preached, but the sense of God... READ MORE
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