Incarnation and Mediation: Ultraman and Humanity
A sort of kinship develops between Ultraman and humanity, adopted brothers and sisters, a community united by this same shared desire for righteousness.
Tagged: catholicism
Kaiju and The Problem of Evil: Sin, Suffering, & Imbalance and Tsuburaya’s Legacy
Conflicts and disasters in kaiju works from Tsuburaya happen when human beings start relating to the universe around us in ways that are contrary to God’s will.
Kaiju and the Problem Of Evil
I do believe there are some crucial connections between Tsuburaya’s work on Kaiju, Godzilla, the Ultraman franchise, and Catholic theology
A Wolf In A Penguin’s Clothing
There is nothing more immodest than a young woman in a tuxedo. Apparently.
The Rule of Doctrine
Atheist writer Adam Lee compares the Roman Catholic hierarchy to an absolute monarchy and dictatorship, but this comparison fails to account for the role of established doctrine in the church’s teaching office.
The Stress of Left Regard
We’ve all heard about right wing backlash against Pope Francis. But what about backlash from the left?
About Those Six or So Reasons Not To Send Your Daughter to College
Raylan Alleman believes you shouldn’t send your daughter to college. What is he thinking?
…Because Getting Off Is Fun
The esteemed Kyle Cupp was written a beautifully thoughtful essay in which he puzzles over the Catholic Church’s insistence that certain kinds of sex are necessarily injurious. First he writes: I’ve asked Catholics who...
Should I Desire That You All Follow My Religion?
I would hope not to court much controversy by saying that all of us should live in accordance with the truth. Call it a notion of natural law that I can get behind. That...
Homogenization and the State
“In some ways, the ‘night watchman’ state — the state that enables civil society to develop and function without distortions imposed by roving bandits, local notables, and its own functionaries, but that also is...
Douthat calls for open religious warfare; thousands perish in ensuing Crusade
I am, frankly, taken aback by some of the reactions to Ross Douthat’s latest column, which makes the commonsensical observation that wavering Anglicans may find the Pope’s combative approach to Islam more attractive than...
quote for the evening
“The notion that differences of opinion between the Catholic church and U.S. law will somehow render Catholic judicial nominees unconfirmable is demonstrably ludicrous. In addition to opposing gay marriage, the Catholic church also opposes...
Catholicism as a Diploma
I’m late to this, I know, but I just caught Christopher Buckley’s post on Newt Gingrich’s recent conversion to Catholicism: Mr. Gingrich’s brain is a 24/7 phenomenon: Half the time, you sit there just...
quote of the day
The kerfuffle over the Obama commencement at Notre Dame has sparked a lot of rather boorish commentary. A more nuanced approach is hard to find, but not impossible:
