Mary Beard, the "Academic"

Ok, I don't know quite to make of this interview with Mary Beard. Two things are striking to me.

The first is the assumption, so taken for granted that it's not even voiced, that her work is part of a political project. Her job, or part of her job, ... https://t.co/INIsg0WgxT

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Lecturing Isn't Going to Improve Things, Either

Catholic bishops: US still ‘painfully’ far from Martin Luther King’s dream

SJWs Won't Rest Until They've Achieved Moral Purity

in everyone else.

Rod Dreher: The John Finnis Line In The Sand
One of world’s leading Christian scholars faces call for expulsion from classroom because of orthodox views on homosexuality

Rorate Caeli: Liberal Censorship: Synod asks Vatican to create "Vatican Certification" of Acceptable Websites

SJWs Claim Another Scalp

Rod Dreher, Catholic Thoughtcriminal Forced Out At OU Law

The Only Growth Latins Can Get

And hence the USCCB loves immigration... there is no guarantee that the children of the immigrants will stay in the Church, but the USCCB is not willing to deal with the institutional causes of failure.

CNA: Six new churches in five years: Portland’s growing Catholic community

Carl Olson on Gaudete et Exsultate

Pope Francis “takes aim” in “Gaudete et Exsultate”—and misses? by Carl E. Olson
The many good qualities and substantive passages in Gaudete et Exsultate are often overshadowed, or even undermined, by straw men, dubious arguments, and cheap shots.

CWR Dispatch: The temptation and the challenge of reading “Gaudete et exsultate” by Christopher R. Altieri

Whatever else there is to say about the document and regardless of one’s personal, spiritual, or intellectual disposition toward Pope Francis, it is fair to say the Holy Father has touched a nerve.

What is going on at the OSC at Fordham?

British Council Awards Grant to Orthodox Christian Studies Center for LGBTQ Research

Both faculty members in question are Greek Orthodox, I believe, solidifying the impression that their jurisdiction is the laxist in the U.S. Even if they weren't sincere believers in their project, this would still be scandalous to the faithful.

Byz Tx: More anti-fundamentalism pap from OCL

Bernadin's Legacy

Pro-Life Redefined at the Vatican by Joel R. Gallagher

Two Jesuits Respond to the Nashville Statement

CWR: When some Christians affirm traditional moral teaching, other Christians freak out by Carl E. Olson

The angry responses to the Nashville Statement reflect the sort of “moral therapeutic deism” that has increasingly dominated the public square in recent years.