1. The Idea of a Seminary?

    | Paul G. Monson

    Paul Monson, Sacred Heart Seminary Professor of Church history, asks what has the university to do with the seminary?

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  2. Newman: Saint and Modern Doctor of the Church?

    | Erich Przywara

    Erich Przywara, one of the most influential 20th c. theologians, argues that Cardinal Newman should not only be declared a saint, but a Doctor of the Church.

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  3. Newman and the Dis-Asters of Modernity

    | Cyril O'Regan

      Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame Huisking Chair in Theology, explains John Henry Newman's contribution to the present age.  

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  2. Where Is the Fault Lodged?

    | Amy Welborn

    Amy Welborn, author of over two dozen books on Catholic spirituality, revisits Souls and Bodies and the Sixties.

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  4. Are Jansenists Among Us?

    | Shaun Blanchard

    Shaun Blanchard, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University Theology Assitant Professor, denies the existence of contemporary Jansenists.

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  5. Jane Austen's Daily Mirrors of Marriage

    | Haley Stewart

    Haley Stewart, writer, speaker, and podcaster looks into the mirror of Austen's novels for a realistic picture of Holy Matrimony. 

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  1. Has Literature Regained Its Faith?

    | Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

    Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Curran Center for American Catholic Studies Associate Director, recognizes the big progress made in putting Catholic literature back on the literary map. 

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  2. Hägglund’s Defense of Faust

    | Michael Shindler

    Michael Shindler, a writer based in DC, inspects the coherence of Hagglund's secular faith

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  3. The Demon of Melancholy

    | Romano Guardini

    Romano Guardini, Catholic priest, professor, and author, digs up the roots of depression.

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  4. Clarifying the Virtues and Limits of Nationalism

    | Randall B. Smith

    Randall B. Smith, Scanlan Endowed Professor of Moral Theology at UST Houston, explores how the Catholic Church can understand its role among the nations. 

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  5. Charles Taylor Queried

    | Anthony Sciglitano

    Anthony Sciglitano, Seton Hall Associate Professor in Religion, asks whether Catholic theology really has an ally in Charles Taylor.

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  1. Derrida, Politics, and the Little Way

    | Michael Altenburger

    Michael Altenburger, Notre Dame PhD in Systematic Theology, deconstructs Jacques Derrida's (non-)commitments to theology.

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  4. We're Not Mystics

    | Chase Padusniak

    Chase Padusniak, PhD candidate in Princeton's English Department, deepens Rahner’s line on mysticism.

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  5. You Gotta Confront Who You Are!

    | Travis Lacy

    Travis Lacy, ND PhD Candidate in Systematic Theology, confronts the unsettling reality of monastic prayer.

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  1. The Cry of the Earth in Pan-Amazonia

    | Lucas Briola

    Lucas Briola, Assistant Theology Professor at Saint Vincent College, unearths striking CST developments in a pre-synod document on the Pan-Amazonian region.

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  2. Protestant Fiction Needs the Catholic Imagination

    | Jessica Hooten Wilson

    Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at John Brown University, shares some ideas on how to improve Protestant fiction. 

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  3. The Empty Exalted Cross's Paradoxical Power

    | Andrea Antenan Peecher

    Andrea Peecher, ND MTS student, draws on ancient sources to explain the meaning of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.

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  5. Discernment for the Postmodern Condition

    | William Watson

    William Watson, SJ, director of the Sacred Story Institute, explains how discernment can help us navigate an age of cultural meltdown. 

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  7. What Is the Catholic Imagination?

    | Michael P. Murphy

    Michael Murphy, Director of the Hank Center at Loyola University Chicago, invites you to reexamine a hotly debated notion. 

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  8. Once Upon a Time of Violence

    | David Griffith

    David Griffith, writer and educator, ponders the ties between real and on-screen violence with the help of Tarantino's latest film.

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  10. The Hazards of Online Faith-Writing

    | Amy Welborn

    Amy Welborn, author of over two dozen books on Catholic spirituality, warns about the dangers of burnout in faith-writing.

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  12. JP2's Labor on Marx

    | Angela Franks

    Angela Franks, Professor of Theology at St. John's Seminary in Boston, demonstrates how the pope critiqued and developed Marx's theory of labor.

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  13. Our New World Without Kith or Kin

    | Scott Beauchamp

    Scott Beauchamp, author of the forthcoming "Did You Kill Anyone?," breaks down the Second Demographic Transition's plague of lonely deaths.

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  15. Atheism's Lessons for Theists

    | Terence Sweeney

    Terence Sweeney, Villanova doctoral candidate in Philosophy, shows how atheism can resposition belief.

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  16. A Brief Theology of the As If

    | Philipp W. Rosemann

    Philipp W. Rosemann, Chair of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, presents a novel Ratzingerian approach to the faith.

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