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The Lamp is a bi-monthly magazine featuring reporting, commentary, and coverage of arts and letters from an orthodox Catholic perspective.
Good piece on Francis’s teaching and governance by @thomaspink1: “It's not only the authority that is obscure but the basic content... We're supposed to get with some general program, the essence of which is a careful avoidance of intellectual definition" thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
"[Francis] urged us [as writers] to act as the voice of human anxieties—what he called “the tensions of the soul”—and he warned us not to “domesticate” these anxieties, which he took to be one of the primary places where we encounter God." @thelampmagazine thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
"The sexual revolution of the 1960s and '70s was part of a more general dissolution of the compromise between modernity and tradition—to the detriment of the latter—of which Vatican II was symptom as much as cause," writes Christopher Caldwell. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
Chris Caldwell's review of Paul Elie's "Last Supper" on sex, art, and religion in the 1980s is the rare kind of essay that leaves you wishing that the reviewer had written the book instead. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
"Bryan Johnson appears luminous, otherworldly, as if the baby in Eraserhead grew up and sprouted a shock of black hair. Were he not the world’s healthiest man, I would think he is sick, very sick," writes @NicXTempore. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
Interesting piece by Grace Russo on AI at CUA (uses of which I was not aware!). @thelampmagazine thelampmagazine.com/blog/blonde-in…
No one writes quite like @matthewwalther thelampmagazine.com/blog/no-matter
Here is @matthewwalther l on the fact that the Vatican diplomatic corps has been employing a priest convicted of diddling kids since his release. thelampmagazine.com/blog/no-matter
"In case you haven’t noticed, a lot of people are very obviously under the impression that the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is some kind of special club or camarilla for people who do these things to kids." @matthewwalther thelampmagazine.com/blog/no-matter
I was going to write about the Yeti prank thing in Denver (which I am broadly in favor of) but instead. . .
In editing @thelampmagazine's symposium on Pope Francis I was surprised by how wide the range of responses was. A random sampling below.
In the beige center of an otherwise brilliant and electric symposium in @thelampmagazine on Pope Francis’s legacy, why we especially need two of his teachings for our digital age: hope is not an option and “mere” Catholicism is a mandatory minimum. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2… 1/3
'Who can deny the lasting power of the Mamas and the Papas, singing rather beautifully, with all the strength of this new sort of music, “Go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do, with whoever you wanna do it with”?'thelampmagazine.com/blog/the-maxim…