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	<title>Return to Rome</title>
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		<title>The Fully Robby: My review of Robert George&#8217;s new book</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francis J. Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In July I published in World Magazine a review of Robert P. George’s new book, Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth (Encounter Books). Here’s how the review begins: Robert P. George, the McCormick professor of jurisprudence and director and founder of the James Madison Program, at Princeton University, is arguably the most influential conservative intellectual in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aquinas, Racism, and Secular Accounts of Human Equality</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francis J. Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In April I published a new article in The Thomist that may interest some Patheos readers. Entitled, “Thomistic Essentialism, Racism, and Secular Accounts of Human Equality,” what follows is the abstract: This article makes a case for why human equality and the wrongness of racism are best accounted for by the philosophical anthropology derived from Thomistic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jenkins &#8211; &#8220;After Francis: What’s Next In The Vatican?&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2025/03/jenkins-after-francis-whats-next-in-the-vatican/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francis J. Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My Baylor colleague, the historian Philip Jenkins, has posted over at The Anxious Bench the first of three entries on the Francis Papacy and how it portends to the next conclave’s selection of a successor.  Here is how it begins: In the quite near future, the world’s largest religious institution will be choosing a new [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Paradox of Big Charity</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2025/03/the-paradox-of-big-charity/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francis J. Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Imagine that you make a fine salary employed by a multibillion dollar charitable organization whose purpose is to eradicate some horrible human malady or condition, e.g., cancer, heart disease, poverty, etc. Suppose you were to succeed. But then you’re out of a job.  To make matters worse, a lot of your funding comes from corporate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Religious Freedom and Abortion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francis J. Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), scholars who support abortion rights have defended different ways to ground a constitutional right to abortion.  Some have argued for a religious liberty angle.  In a just-published article I co-authored with Australian legal scholar, Alex Deagon, we offer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My review of Ross Douthat&#8217;s new book, Believe.</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2025/02/review-of-ross-douthats-new-book-believe/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francis J. Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am happy to report that I just published in World Magazine a review of the book, Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious (Zondervan 2025), authored by the New York Times columnist, Ross Douthat.  Here’s how the review begins: In 1952, a well-known public intellectual named C.S. Lewis published Mere Christianity, a small and accessible book [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomistic Inst. Essay: Moral Relativism &#038; the Natural Law</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francis J. Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the great blessings of my career as a professor  is being invited to speak at the many chapters of the Thomistic Institute found on college campus throughout North America and Europe.  Over the past year I have spoken at the University of Miami, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, University of Toronto, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Review of Rod Dreher&#8217;s Living in Wonder</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2024/11/my-review-of-rod-drehers-living-in-wonder/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francis J. Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 03:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the November 2024 issue of World Magazine is my review of Rod Dreher’s new book, Living In Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age (Zondervan, 2024).  Entitled “Disenchantment and Truth,” here’s how the review begins:  “Like all dreamers, I confused disenchantment with truth.” Those pithy words, penned by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New book: A Catholic Engagement with Latter-Day Saints</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2024/10/new-book-a-catholic-engagement-with-latter-day-saints/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francis J. Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, A Catholic Engagement with Latter-Day Saints.  Co-edited with my dear friend, Utah State University philosopher and Catholic convert, Richard Sherlock, the book is set for release by Ignatius Press on November 30, 2024.    Among the other contributors are Rachel Lu, Alexander Pruss, Matthew [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Did ChatGPT concede that there exists a First Cause?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francis J. Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a 2002 debate book he did with J. J. Smart–Atheism and Theism—the Scottish philosopher John Haldane offers a First Cause argument for God’s existence. It is not a First Cause argument based on the impossibility of an infinite past series of events–like the Kalam Cosmological Argument–but one that makes a case for a First [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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