Elliot Bougis (Florida Man™) is a convert from the Reformed tradition. After a decade of teaching in Taiwan, Elliot returned to America and is now a freelance translator, interpreter, marketer, and writer. He is a happily married, multilingual father of three and occasionally a fitness nut. Find out more at ebougis.wordpress.com.
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BOOK REVIEW: Science Was Born of Christianity by Stacy Trasancos
“Science, it must not be forgotten, lives by hope no less than does religion.” — Rev. Stanley L. Jaki, Catholic Essays (1990), p. 27 Science Was Born of Christianity: The Teaching of Fr. Stanley L. Jaki, with a foreword by Rev. …
BOOK REVIEW: The Book of Gomorrah by St. Peter Damian
“The Legend of St. Peter Damian” (source) “Stirred up by holy rage, you wrote of such [i.e., sodomitical] clerics according to your judgment; it is appropriate … that we intervene with our apostolic authority so that we might dispel scrupulous …
On Excluding Exclusion and the Inclusion Delusion: A Few Things to Know and Share
A visualization of Teilhard de Chardin´s cosmological eschatology1 Significantly, de Chardin’s once condemned views are cited approvingly in §83 of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ (SOURCE) – “‘There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the whole …
BREAKING: Fr. Lombardi and Pope Francis Speak Out on Scalfarigate!
A montage from the 1983 Woody Allen film, Zelig1 AKA, The Proto-Forrest Gump “The Christ that Harnack sees, looking back through nineteen centuries of Catholic darkness, is only the reflection of a Liberal Protestant face, seen at the bottom of a …
Synod 2015: The Language Event That Keeps on Giving
[NB: To understand why I refer to the synod as a “language event”, please refer to this post of mine from a couple days ago, which presents remarks made by Abp. Mark Coleridge in a press conference at the synod.] Ultimately …
Bergoglianism is the new Origenism…
The impact of Origen, as a catechist and biblical commentator, rocked the Church for at least three centuries, causing strife over a host of doctrinal and pastoral issues. Many of his views were condemned by the Church at the Second Council …
How To Win Friends and Influence The People—or, Nothing Personal, But You’re The Pope
Munkácsy Mihály: “Ecce Homo!” (1896) “[W]hen asked how he would like to be remembered, Francis simply responded: ‘As a good guy. … I hope they say: “He was a good guy who tried to do good.” I have no other …
Pope Francis and the Papal Pyramid: Looking Through the Wrong End of the Telescope
“When the Divine founder decreed that the Church should be one in faith, in government, and in communion, He chose Peter and his successors as the principle and centre, as it were, of this unity.” — Pope Leo XIII, Satis …
Pope’s Ghostwriter Clashes with Head of CDF over Eco-encyclical?
Drawing upon a recent article in German by Giuseppe Nardi, the blogger at “The Radical Catholic” (RC) informs us that Pope Francis’s long-awaited encyclical on ecology is going to remain just that–even more long-awaited. According to Vaticanist Sandro Magister [LINK], Pope Francis has …
The Modern Crisis of Authority and the Abiding Prowess of the Papacy, Part II
“[T]he decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing …