The Putrid Soul
Jonathan Heaps on the law of spiritual corruption.
October 2020
Awakening from Digital Slumbers
Jessica Hooten Wilson on books that bring us to life.
Scientism and Civilizational Rallying: Dawkins and the New Atheists
Jason Blakely on how science made the New Atheists delusional.
Is the Modern Administrative State Irredeemable?
Adrian Vermeule and Cass Sunstein on pressing questions surrounding the law and the state.
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart: From Empty Pockets to Stained Glass
Nancy Cavadini and Cecilia Davis Cunningham on the deeply French-Catholic history of the Notre Dame basilica's windows.
Louise Glück and the Return From Oblivion
Ewa Chrusciel on the Nobelist's apophatic inclinations.
Saint John Paul II's Clash With Cultural Colonialism
James Felak on the pope's first visit to Poland in 1979.
Fratelli Tutti's Bridging of the Death Penalty Gap
Gregory Caridi on why Pope Francis's latest encyclical does not change Church teaching.
Murder in the Cathedral: The Face of Christ in the Victims of Nagasaki
David Albert Jones on George Weigel's defense of dropping the bomb.
Fides et Ratio After Athens and Jerusalem
Frederick Lawrence on the late modern need for Socratic breaks.
The Poetic Body of the Benedictine Charism
Margarita Mooney on Newman's writings on St. Benedict.
Evolution, Cooperation, and God
Sarah Coakley on the compatibility of recent evolutionary discoveries with classical theism.
The Future of Catholicism
Jean-Luc Marion on the unknowability of God and man.
Neuroscience Disappears When the Complex Whole Is Decomposed
Patrick McNamara on the need to avoid "nothing but" solutions in science.
Originalism Isn't the Judicial Version of Biblical Fundamentalism
Elizabeth-Jane and Steven McGuire on Amy Coney Barrett's judicial theory.
The Mood of Prayer in Newman's Grammar of Assent
Nicholas Lash on Newman's seminal work in the philosophy of religion.
Can Concepts Capture Love?
Claude Romano on Jean-Luc Marion's rigorous and rational philosophy of love.
Communal Guilt and the Black Catholic Experience in America: An Interview with Fr. Josh Johnson
Shaun Blanchard interviews Fr. Johnson about Black Catholic history.
Religious Freedom: A Non-Partisan Principle for Hyper-Partisan Times
Michael Baxter on a new and more historical way of looking at a hot topic of national debate.
The Aesthetic Inversion in the Religious Conversion of St. Francis of Assisi
Matthew Chominski on whether beauty or ugliness is the deepest truth of reality.
A Quest for the Historical Saint Francis
Augustine Thompson, OP on a historical scholar encountering St. Francis of Assisi.
What Angels Can Teach Us About Being Human
David Albert Jones on how studying angels can combat anthropocentrism.
