Philip Primeau

Philip Primeau publishes regularly at gladsomelight.substack.com. He may be contacted at primeau.philip1 -at- gmail -dot- com. He does not employ AI in the writing and editing of his work.

recent articles

Jesus Was Not a “Faithful Jew”

No one would call a Christian a “faithful Jew.” Why, then, do some—men who should know better—call Jesus, the author of Christianity, a “faithful Jew?”

A Little Hatred Might Yet Save Us

We are always asking the question, “What went wrong with the Church?” There is an answer too rarely considered: we abandoned hatred of the world.

Toward the New Ecumenism

The Old Ecumenism has failed. What we need today is a New Ecumenism, dedicated to unity via full communion with the Catholic Church.

Ambivalent About Babylon

The West’s moral darkness has advanced under the cover of the very slogans now tossed about by those courting Armageddon abroad. Freedom! Democracy! Freedom—to do what? Democracy—to achieve what?

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The Evangelization of the Jewish People

“Say to the cities of Judah, ‘Behold your God!’” (Isaiah 40:9) In 2015, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Nostra aetate, the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews issued a document entitled “The Gifts and the Calling of God Are Irrevocable” (hereafter, GC). Although some years have passed since its publication, this text still … Read more

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