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Out of the mouths of babes and atheists…

Out of the mouths of babes and atheists…

Oct 7, 2008

"Mankind is more than the janitor of planet Earth," writes Brendan O’Neill. "I am avowedly atheist. But listening to the bishops' drab, eco-pious Christmas sermons, I couldn’t help thinking: ‘Bring back God!’"

When Tradition Fractures

When Tradition Fractures

Oct 7, 2008

St. Augustine Lives on in the Great Theological Conflicts of Today. When it comes to St. Augustine, the great fifth-century bishop of Hippo, Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox all have a similar reaction: none of us quite know what to do with him. Or at least that was my impression, based on the conference I attended at Fordham University last June.