Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy
Michael Gubser on the symbiosis between a philosophy and a religion.
Black Domers: Desegregating the University of Notre Dame Football Team
Wayne Edmonds on his experience of playing football in a charged racial environment.
Don’t Panic If You Feel Fear
Sr. Mary David OSB on the spirituality of endurance.
From Church to Churches: The Historical Failure of Social Love
Brad Gregory on the abiding historical inconsistencies of the Church.
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The Fury That Destroys the World
Michael Murphy on Nietzsche's Catholic double.
The Return of the Church's Repressed Boundary Problem
Gladden Pappin on the contradictory demands put upon the Church in the modern world.
Is Allah a Different God Than the Biblical God?
Gabriel Said Reynolds on what minding scriptures adds to this controversy.
Bodying Forth the Classics: A Manifesto
Jessica Hooten Wilson on leaving the academy but staying with literature.
Roberto Calasso and the Progress of the Novel
Scott Beauchamp on Roberto Calasso's achievement and the future of the novel.
Christ in the ICU
Cyril O'Regan on undergoing serious surgery, dying, and healthcare workers.
The Wisdom of Boethius for Uncertain Times
Robert Koerpel on the consolations of philosophy.
The Unhidden Lives of Jean Vanier and Franz Jägerstätter
John O'Callaghan on the public face of the conscience.
When Nothing Helps
Jonathan Heaps on Mr. Rogers and why there will always be helpers.
Everything You Know About John Paul II's Early Lectures on CST Is Wrong
Paweł Rojek sets the record straight in the controversy over Karol Wojtyla's lectures.
The Good Place Wave and the Restless Heart
Roberto De La Noval on the overlooked theological content of The Good Place and its finale.
Max Weber and the Souls of Black Folk
Christopher McAuley on the meeting between W.E.B. Dubious and Max Weber and their later forking paths.
Fear as a Lack of Faith?
Alex Fogleman on celebrating Easter and life in the midst of death.
Catholic Creationism as a Conspiracy Theory
Brett Salkeld on teaching evolution and the theology of the Church.
The Moment in Race Relations That Keeps Repeating Itself
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell on Ahmaud Arbery and Flannery O'Connor's ambivalence about race.
From Loneliness to Silent Freedom
Sofia Carozza on the neurobiology of monastic prayer in quarantine.
What's the Real Problem at the Core of the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Jeffrey Bishop on the problem of naming the pandemic's challenge.
Prayer and the Shame From Racism
Sheila Wise Rowe gives an example of the emotional and spiritual toll of racism.
Julia Kristeva and the Specter of Christianity
Jennifer Martin on psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva's abiding fascination with Catholicism.
Historiographic Sophistications: The Eclipse of Medieval Women Mystics
Cyril O'Regan on how theory eclipses the witness of medieval women mystics.
Rethinking Women’s Reproductive Health
Abigail Favale on the reproductive health of actual women.
A Catholic History of the Fake Conflict Between Science and Religion
Christopher Baglow on the American background of a fabricated conflict.
Fátima and Perseverance in Trials
Margarita Mooney on what hope means in the midst of unbearable trauma.
Solidarity and Subsidiarity: Homeschooling Isn't All Risk
Ken Garcia on the possibility for solidarity and subsidiarity in homeschooling.
Hospice Care and the Denial of Death
Ethan Schimmoeller on what the spiritual dimension adds to hospice care.
Historiographic Sophistications: Did Gnosticism Exist?
Cyril O'Regan on the contested existence of Gnosticism.
The First Condition for Dignified Work
Simone Weil on how work should work.
Heaven as a Roof: The Underlying Unity of Creation
Ben McFarland on how the periodic table shaped life.
Cardinal Sarah's Warning to the West
Chase Padusniak on the overlooked elements of Robert Cardinal Sarah's thinking.
The American Book of the Dead
Scott Beauchamp on Don DeLillo's White Noise as the ultimate quarantine read.
On the Use and Abuse of St. Francis for Quarantine Life: The Case of Giorgio Agamben
Stephen Metzger replies to Giorgio Agamben's attack on Pope Francis.
From a Consumerist Death, Deliver Us O Lord
Jessica Hooten Wilson on the consumerist evasion of mortality.
The Future of Today When Tomorrow Is Uncertain
David Cloutier recommends anticipatory humility during the coronavirus lockdown.
The Cave of Plato and the Caves of Christ
William Hackett on the false dichotomy between myth and reason.
Can American Social Life Be Restored?
Brain Jones advocates a fundamental rethinking of the way Americans do things.
