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Raising the Bastions

Raising the Bastions The Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar is a figure at once admired and scorned in U.S. Catholicism. An ostensible “radical” before the Second Vatican Council, his postconciliar reputation has long invited the suspicions of liberal Catholics and the cautious, sometimes grudging respect of conservatives. Many theologians are deeply ambivalent about him. The surface of Balthasar’s texts seems to take different shapes depending on the light in which they’re read. It’s no...

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A Dangerous Distraction

A Dangerous Distraction For many critics of the Trump administration’s ever more violent and indiscriminate campaign of mass deportation, one of its most disturbing features has been the increased penchant of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers for hiding their faces during raids. Some have maintained that the proliferation of balaclava-clad ICE agents, who call to mind the “secret police” of totalitarian states, is yet another warning sign that the United States is descending ...

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