by Fr. Patrick Henry ReardonSometimes there is no good news unless you search for it. I found some recently, for instance, when I wondered if college students today are still obliged to purchase and---though I doubt they ever did---read Michael C. Howard's Contemporary Cultural Anthropology. Well, … [Read more...]
The Once and Future Darkness
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon From the first page of Holy Writ, the reader is left with no doubt about the nature of the world and humanity's place within it. These themes are made very plain. Perhaps it is less obvious that a certain polemical concern is active in the mind of the Hebrew author … [Read more...]
A New Kind Of Death
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon However we are to treat the "necessity" Christ ascribes to his Passion, we should not speak of it as a physical necessity. It was not an mere instance of second law of thermodynamics. Nor---to pose the question theologically---can we say that Jesus had to die in the … [Read more...]
