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  What Do the Hand Gestures in Icons Mean? A classical Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition survives in Christian iconography Daniel Esparza ALETEIA June 12, 2016 Dreamstime   Have you ever wondered, while looking at religious icons, why the figures of Christ and … Continue reading →

Montecassino Abbey   Benedict Option as Meanness? By Rod Dreher • June 9, 2016, 7:54 AM THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE [ Emphasis and {commentary} in red type by Abyssum ] Oh good, another throwdown over the Benedict Option. Greg Forster thinks … Continue reading →

June 12, 2016 by Fr. George W. Rutler At a Vigil Service before the burial of a friend who was a Knight of Malta, a comfortable attorney who was a self-styled “progressivist” took umbrage at a phrase I had read … Continue reading →

  Zack Dunlap: No Miracle, He Demonstrates the Capacity of the Body (including the brain ) to Heal… Posted: 09 Jun 2016 10:24 AM PDT LES FEMMES Steven Thorpe, declared brain dead by four doctors, recovered. And Zack’s not the … Continue reading →

Alexis de Toqueville The Principle of Subsidiarity [ Emphasis and {commentary} in red type by Abyssum ] by David A. Bosnich http://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-6-number-4/principle-subsidiarity One of the key principles of Catholic social thought is known as the principle of subsidiarity. This tenet … Continue reading →

THE FRACTURED REPUBLIC: by Ben Domenech, The Federalist 09 June 16 I have been reading Yuval Levin’s new book, The Fractured Republic, for an upcoming review and an interview next week. It is in many ways a discouraging read, and … Continue reading →

  Multiplicabuntur:  “In your old age I will multiply your good works” from Psalm 91.   Grundglaub:  “A basis for understanding, for faith.”   Heilige schwert:  “Take up the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God).”  Ephesians … Continue reading →

  Alice in “Amoris Laetitia” Land The dazzling critique by an Australian scholar on the post-synodal exhortation. “We have lost all foothold, and fallen like Alice into a parallel universe, where nothing is quite what it seems to be” by … Continue reading →

Mystery vs. Mastery: Reframing the Debates in our Culture Wars by Christopher White within Bioethics, Book Reviews Jun 09, 2016 07:00 am http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/06/16684/   The bitterness of competing narratives in today’s culture wars can give the impression that no agreement is possible between … Continue reading →