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March 29, 2024
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** Easter, Creation, and Holiness
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George Weigel
Syndicated Column

What came first: creation, or God’s covenants with the People of Israel and the New Israel, the Church?

The question may seem odd, even silly. Chronologically, it’s obvious that the divine act of creation preceded the divine acts of covenant-making: no creation, no “People” with whom God could enter a covenant relationship. But our sense of time is not God’s. For as St. Thomas Aquinas taught, all that we know as “time” is an eternal present to God.

In Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week, Pope Benedict XVI explains that God’s covenant relationship with his chosen people in both the Old and New Testaments is not an add-on, a divine afterthought—or, as it’s more often understood, a fix for something that had gone wrong. Rather, Benedict writes, God’s covenantal bond with his people—the Jewish people and the people of the Church—is the very reason why God “created” in the first place:

According to rabbinic theology, the idea of the covenant—the idea of establishing a holy people to be an interlocutor for God in union with him—is prior to the idea of the creation of the world and supplies its inner motive. The cosmos was created, not that there be manifold things in heaven and earth, but that there be space for the “covenant,” for the loving “yes” between God and his human respondent.

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Carrie Gress writes for The Catholic Thing about Christ’s humility as an antidote to envy ([link removed]) .
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On this episode of Searching for Medicine’s Soul, ([link removed]) Aaron Rothstein is joined by Dr. Marc-David Munk to discuss his travels to the Middle East and Africa, Christianity’s role as a trusted institution in places where government has failed, and how to bring the focus back to patients in the American healthcare system.
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Gender Ideology: What Catholics Need to Know
With Mary Rice Hasson, J.D.
A six-week series exploring gender ideology from a Catholic perspective
Mary Rice Hasson will present a six-week series of online lectures on gender ideology and the orthodox Catholic response.
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April 11, 2024
Grove City College
George Weigel, and Carl R. Trueman, and Devorah Goldman will speak at the "Confronting Antisemitism" conference hosted by the Institute for Faith and Freedom at Grove City College on April 11.
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** The Promise and Peril of Civic Renewal: Richard John Neuhaus, Peter L. Berger, and “To Empower People”
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April 22, 2024 | 1 pm
American Enterprise Institute
1789 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
Ryan T. Anderson, George Weigel, and Patrick Brown will speak at a conference on the legacy of Richard John Neuhaus and Peter L. Berger’s To Empower People at the American Enterprise Institute on April 22.
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