Here is what passes for enlightened commentary on matters Catholic in the Boston Globe.

If pre-moderns sometimes played with the issue of how many angels might comfortably land on the head of a pin, post-moderns seem obsessed with how many prevarications can be squeezed into the space of one column?

For Halloween fun and frolic: count ‘em.

Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, has contributed to Commonweal for fifty years. A selection of his essays and reviews, some of which first appeared in Commonweal, has been published as Christ Brings All Newness (Word on Fire Academic).

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