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Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground

Without Christianity neither the nature of the present crisis of culture nor the meaning of history itself can be properly comprehended. If the Christian revelation is to come to our aid in this moment of peril, we must learn to account for its sweeping claims in ways that are faithful to Church teachings, intellectually cogent, morally rigorous, charitable, anthropologically sound, and undeterred by the moribund spirit of our age.

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Gil Bailie explores two short stories by Flannery O'Connor, Parker's Back and The Artificial Nigger, as a way to see the sacrament of confirmation - the Christian initiation into the mature responsibilities of spiritual and social life - in a new light.

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