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Can God and Penguins Coexist?
The Vatican—not Richard Dawkins, famously author of The God Delusion—is most dedicated to the science of evolution. Thus argues Msgr. Carlo Maria Polvani in a recent article, "Why are there no...
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Don’t Fear Franciscan Dialogue
Two important new articles on Pope Francis appeared this weekend. The first by Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig for The New Republic examines, at some length, conservative "reverence" vis-à-vis ideas of...
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New Editorial Director: David Mills
On many occasions, I have been proud to be the founding editor of Ethika Politika. Publishing a fantastic article or helping to bring important voices to our board are gratifying for me. Yet in almost...
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Augustine on Evil Children and the Future of Family
My wife stays at home with our little ones—four, three, and ten months. It’s a common enough arrangement, yet I’m not sure how common is her sometimes earnest, maybe slightly provoked belief that the...
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Misericordiae Vultus Is For Sinners
Trampling Pope Francis's Misericordiae Vultus, which announced an "Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy" for 2016, is hardly heroic. All the more if one's commitment to "repentance" involves misrepresenting...
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Discernment and Disgraced Priests
Some comrades of mine from the seminary are disgraced priests. I left in 2008 after three years, and most of my classmates were ordained priests in 2011. Most whom I've known do great work in...
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Reviewing ‘Gender’
“Gender” is one of the more confusing and confused terms in modern anthropology. “So-called gender theory” has been denounced by Pope Francis; and its philosophical problems were rather famously dealt...
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Welcoming Our New 2015 Staff
Ethika Politika is happy to welcome our 2015 Via Sapientiae Fellow, Audra Nakas, a recent graduate of The Catholic University of America. We're also very excited to announce the addition of a new...
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On Giving Silence Without Consent
We are not yet facing the gallows for believing that conjugal marriage alone is marriage. While many Christians have already staked out this place as their hill to die on, the landscape is shifting...
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The Dissolution of Our Parishes
In 1536 King Henry VIII began dissolving the monasteries of England. It was an unprecedented move made possible by the equally rare assent of the local bishops to Henry’s status as Supreme Head of the...
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On Giving Silence Without Consent
We are not yet facing the gallows for believing that conjugal marriage alone is marriage. While many Christians have already staked out this place as their hill to die on, the landscape is shifting...
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The Dissolution of Our Parishes
In 1536 King Henry VIII began dissolving the monasteries of England. It was an unprecedented move made possible by the equally rare assent of the local bishops to Henry’s status as Supreme Head of the...
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Why Domestic Tyrants Hate Pope Francis
Aristotle says that good citizens are the ones who are able and willing to be ruled, and by this definition, few American Catholics are “good citizens” of the Church on matters of marriage and the...
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Synod Watchdogs Are Against the Wall
Papal alarmism—which we could call “watchdogism"—is opportunistic, and such opportunism is bound tightly to the progressive-versus-conservative political narrative. Even some brilliant and otherwise...
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Being Christians After Paris
What does it mean to be a Christian in America after the November 13th attacks on Paris? By now it’s clear that Christian identity—even if not actual Christian faith or morals—is what the massacres at...
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Sustaining Our Unique Enterprise
Ethika Politika is a unique enterprise doing important work that no one else quite does. It opens a Catholic conversation to those who need it—not one that’s too focused on closing gaps or arguments,...
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We Don’t Live for Our Children
Seemingly ages ago, before Marco Rubio short-circuited during Saturday’s New Hampshire debate, his third-place victory speech in Iowa was about “America’s story.” It was about the “story of your...
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The Pope’s Painful Liturgies
As much as I enjoy talking him up, watching Pope Francis celebrate Mass is — at least for me — a painful experience. From what I can tell, I'm not alone. There's an almost unchecked suspicion that the...
View ArticleThe Benedict Option is No Match for Trump, and That’s the Point
The Benedict Option might not have caused Donald Trump. But it hasn’t stopped him, either. That’s partly because it’s not designed to. The best popular, political outcome it promises is to continue...
View ArticlePope Francis: Be Modest, Apologize to Gays
Modesty may not be the greatest virtue, but it might be the most Catholic. It implies that things can sometimes — maybe of necessity — be excessive, but that working back toward something reasonable,...
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