Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

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Our Age is Marked by a Great Crisis

In the light of these and other texts of the New Testament it is possible to understand what is meant by the “civilization of love”, and why the family is organically linked to this civilization. If the first “way of the Church” is the family, it should also be said that the civilization of love… Read More ›

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Our Civilization is Strictly Servile

The basic inner moral contradiction of our age is that, though we talk and ream about freedom (or say we dream of it, though I sometimes question that!), though we fight wars over it, our civilization is strictly servile. I do not use this term contemptuously, but in its original sense of “pragmatic,” oriented exclusively… Read More ›

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