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What would a religious revival actually look like?: Catholic renewal
The weather and the cathedral We have seen a thousand revivals. We have a word for the ones that lasted: orders. Francis, Benedict, the Jesuits — each began as something like Asbury, a fire of fervor, and survived only because someone had the unromantic discipline to build a... Where is religiosity growing, where is it receding, and what does that tell us?: Catholic Social Teaching
Gregory’s missionaries In 590, Pope Gregory I surveyed a Church that had lost Rome, lost North Africa to the Vandals, lost the eastern provinces to schism. He did not write a report on institutional decline. He sent missionaries to England.... Is tradition a resource, a trap, or something else?: Catholic Social Teaching
Critical retrieval In 1879, Leo XIII commanded the entire Church to go back to Thomas Aquinas. Not to repeat him — to think with him, then think past him....