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Dear Friends of the Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society, Our spring lectures are swiftly approaching, about which I will mail you separately. My purpose in this message is to notify all of our friends about a most exciting event coming to our area this coming summer. Some of you over the years have no doubt attended the conference of the American Chesterton Society, up to now held annually in St. Paul, Minnesota. And a few of you may already be... Read more

A reader sends me some bafflement from his Jewish atheist uncle. He wrote to his uncle: The Pope (Peter’s successor) was promised by Jesus that he would guide him to all truth. So, the Pope’s teaching on morals are infallible, because if Jesus promised it I am going to bet that he is capable of carrying out that promise. and uncle replied: Thanks for this – it allows me to understand your position. However, doesn’t that mean that actions of... Read more

Bishop Gregory Aymond announced that the body of Rev. Jesse Euresti, an Austin priest who has been missing, has been found in Mexico. Euresti, 69, was pastor of Cristo Rey Catholic Church. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. Read more

here is a typical voice from post-Christian Protestantism. He doesn’t remember when he lost his faith (it evaporated like mist rising off a river, but his progenitors were Baptist). However, he has a cloudy regard for Jesus. His recommendation: forget about all that stuff about the death and resurrection of Jesus. The *real* core of the Christian faith is “Niceness is nice. Be tolerant. Recycle. Support your library and NPR. Moderate, Newsweek-reader literacy is important. Fundamentalists who believe that Jesus... Read more

here is a typical voice from post-Christian Protestantism. He doesn’t remember when he lost his faith (it evaporated like mist rising off a river, but his progenitors were Baptist). However, he has a cloudy regard for Jesus. His recommendation: forget about all that stuff about the death and resurrection of Jesus. The *real* core of the Christian faith is “Niceness is nice. Be tolerant. Recycle. Support your library and NPR. Moderate, Newsweek-reader literacy is important. Fundamentalists who believe that Jesus... Read more

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Sophie Scholl of the White Rose wanted to become Catholic an hour before her baptism of blood at the hands of the Nazis. Another Newman convert. Magnificent woman! I think of her as I read stuff like Jon Meacham’s autopsy on what he regards as post-Christian America, in which the MSM exults that their old dream of a US that is (at the moment at least) throwing off the fetters of the gospel. Of course, part of this is just... Read more

Sophie Scholl of the White Rose wanted to become Catholic an hour before her baptism of blood at the hands of the Nazis. Another Newman convert. Magnificent woman! I think of her as I read stuff like Jon Meacham’s autopsy on what he regards as post-Christian America, in which the MSM exults that their old dream of a US that is (at the moment at least) throwing off the fetters of the gospel. Of course, part of this is just... Read more