The Rising, by David Warren

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The Resurrection of Christ by Raphael, 1499-1502 [São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brasil]. This was never a modest claim, and it did not immediately appeal to the sophisticates of the ancient world. It was in fact quite contrary to what every “normal” Greek or Roman believed – that the dead stay dead, consistently. (Otherwise, why bother to execute them?)

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, April 5, 2024

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. …

To paraphrase Saint Paul, if Christianity did not give a reliable account of the Truth, then we, or more precisely I, would have no use for it.

Or rather, I would just have the use of another “comparative religion,” the way I use Shinto, or Zoroastrianism, or the way Richard Dawkins uses the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

In which case, Saint Paul’s hypothetical advice would be, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.” (1 Corinthians 15:32). Verily: for “comparative religion” has always made me thirsty.

But one thing follows from another, in the reasoning every Catholic can know in his bones. For Saint Paul had remarked, more starkly: “If the dead rise not again, neither is Christ risen again.” …

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The Rising, by David Warren

How Will Cardinal Fernández Influence the Vatican’s Gender Ideology Response? by Jonathan Liedl

Pope Francis Removes Cardinal-Vicar and Auxiliary Bishop of Rome Reportedly Over Rupnik Case, by Michael Haynes

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, April 5, 2024

To paraphrase Saint Paul, if Christianity did not give a reliable account of the Truth, then we, or more precisely I, would have no use for it.

Or rather, I would just have the use of another “comparative religion,” the way I use Shinto, or Zoroastrianism, or the way Richard Dawkins uses the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

In which case, Saint Paul’s hypothetical advice would be, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.” (1 Corinthians 15:32). Verily: for “comparative religion” has always made me thirsty.

But one thing follows from another, in the reasoning every Catholic can know in his bones. For Saint Paul had remarked, more starkly: “If the dead rise not again, neither is Christ risen again.” …

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