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Artur Rosman
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University of Notre Dame Associate Research Professor, Editor-in-Chief of Church Life Journal, translator (most recently, of Tischner's Philosophy of Drama) artist, dog-lover, and avid reader.
So, is this website as useless and boring as I've found it to be?
May 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The convergence between Pope Francis's final public appearance, with the Easter blessing, and his death the next morning moved me deeply. For us Christians, death is not simply the end, but the ultimate passage to the Risen Lord.
--Cardinal Gerhard Müller

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In the End, Fidelity Matters: Cardinal Müller on the Pontificate of Pope Francis
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller on the papacy.
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May 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"While traditional religion has declined in the United States, it has not been replaced by sheer secularism. Religious obsolescence in the United States has not meant the disappearance of the sacred, spiritual..."
--Christian Smith

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Why Religion Went Obsolete: Not by Secularization Alone
Christian Smith on secularization.
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April 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If back in 1926 Bernanos was the watchman announcing that rumors of Satan’s demise are greatly exaggerated... perhaps he is the prophet also of our very, very chaotic moment marked by lawlessness and cruelty... Perhaps cruelty, above all.
--Cyril O'Regan
Demons and Monsters in Georges Bernanos
Cyril O'Regan on the figuration of evil.
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April 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
One of the funniest videos I've ever seen:
April 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I have always wondered what Jesus was writing. The people around him probably wondered too, leaning over, arching their necks to see what the strange rabbi was up to.
--Terence Jeremiah Sweeney
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What Did Jesus Write in the Sand?
Terence Sweeney on love.
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March 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reposted by Artur Rosman
“AN ANALOGY OF GRACE is deep, balanced, and insightful. The questions it looks at are perennially important, and all the more so in a multi-religious world.” ~Andrew Davison

This stunning work by Henry Shea, S.J. has just released! https://bit.ly/4flznjx

March 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
From the Dean of Flannery O'Connor Studies, Ralph Wood, on her centenary:
Flannery O’Connor’s Lenten Life and Work
Ralph Wood on literature.
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March 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is the real crisis of modernity—not merely an intellectual crisis, but a crisis of desire. The problem is not just that we think wrongly, but that we love wrongly.
--James Ungureanu
The Way Forward in Science and Religion
James Ungureanu on the limits of language.
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March 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
What am I even doing here? Anyway, make sure you don't miss my recently-published translation (happy to send a review copy to those of you that do that sort of thing):

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The Philosophy of Drama
Amazon.com: The Philosophy of Drama: 9780268208837: Tischner, Józef, Rosman, Artur, O'Regan, Cyril: Books
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March 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM