Definitely. I'll send it around.

This looks incredible! I may have to come to listen to these papers.

to adjudicate considerably more claims than they had to in the past, but given no tools to do so, it's not very surprising that they would end up frustrated and mean, turning to tribalism for quick answers -- a kind of cognitional fast food that stands in place of substantial thinking.

I think Peter totally counts! And Evaristus is supposed to have been Jewish as well (per the Liber Pontificalis).

Deus', he must not in any way have held orthodox beliefs about Mary. This seems like special pleading to me.

We read with this generosity because we understand what Augustine is getting at, though he lacks the precise language of later insights. Yet, some will then turn to his statements on Mary and, because he does not write them with the same language used in Pius IX's 'Ineffabilis

TASL is a program that addresses reaffiliation in the Catholic Church, teaching theology and answering theological questions at the level of our times at the University of Notre Dame. The tremendous good that this program is doing is the work of the grace of God.

While writing my book on the Apostles' Creed, I'm thinking about the role of error in forcing the orthodox to articulate and clarify what had been previously felt and lived.

In addition to reading the minor prophets, I would recommend people take a look at Augustine's De Civitate Dei as a critique of empire and the sorts of distorted loves that arise in it.