RECENT COLUMNS
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Auguste Meyrat
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Michael Pakaluk
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Francis X. Maier
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John M. Grondelski
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Robert Royal
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Sacred Spaces
St. Peter’s Church (Peterskirche) Vienna, Austria
True Beauty
O Vos Omnes (Newman University Church, Dublin, Ireland)
RECENT COLUMNS
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Auguste Meyrat
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Michael Pakaluk
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Francis X. Maier
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John M. Grondelski
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Robert Royal
NEWS
COMMENTARY
NOTABLE
Christian obedience
Arch. Charles J. Chaput OFM cap.
Monday, July 26, 2021
Christian obedience is never a form of unthinking servility. We have brains for a reason. Christian obedience is an act of love. It’s a free gift of the self, and when obedience to authority becomes mechanical and excessive, or worse, if it serves a bad end, it crushes the spirit. All real love—and especially the love at the heart of a healthy obedience—is ordered to truth.