Plato and Aristotle Between Autonomy and Oppression
Christopher Frey on the intersection of ancient philosophy with the present.
Reappropriating the Mystery and Meaning of Salvation in Christ
Robert Imbelli on the sacramental breakdown of the buffered self.
The Difference Between Liturgical Naïveté and a Eucharistic Culture of Affiliation
Timothy O'Malley on the liturgy as an antidote to disaffiliation.
Old Myths About the Age of Enlightenment That Die Hard
Shaun Blanchard on Catholicism and the Enlightenment.
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Love's Wounds: Both a Gift and a Challenge
Jessica Hooten Wilson on The Five Wounds.
New Pathways for Catholic Schools After the Pandemic
Kati Macaluso on the importance of in-person instruction.
Politics Without the Fall?
Thomas Smith on being human.
The Joy of Hate Watching
Luke Burgis on the dynamics of wanting.
The Development of the Musical Idea: Attempt at a Synthesis of Music
Hans Urs von Balthasar on the philosophy, history, and meaning of music.
Aristotle's Irredeemable Ableism
Christopher Frey on Aristotle's immoral arguments for natural slavery.
The Uneven Race Between Work and Marriage
Joshua Hren on competing callings.
How to Correct Bishops Correctly
Gregory Caridi on Canon 212 and public speech.
Did Thomas More and John Donne Advocate Assisted Suicide?
David Albert Jones on popularly accepted myths.
What Would It Mean for the Church to Succeed?
Jean-Luc Marion on theologically redefining success.
The Church as an Icon of the Trinity
Thomas Humphries on the ecclesial dimensions of the Creed.`
A New Model for Understanding the Dynamics of Catholic Disaffiliation
Timothy O'Malley on the loss of control.
Walker Percy's News from Across the Sea
Matt Nelson on the novelist's philosophizing about faith and reason.
Walter White's Chaotic Beauty
Jonathan Heaps on Breaking Bad and the possibility of the good.
Ancient Philosophy's Return Amidst the Triumph of the Therapeutic
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn on the arts of living.
Christian Metaphysics and the Apocalyptic Future
Philip Gonzales on what comes next in theology.
Catholic Social Doctrine Isn't a Surrogate for Capitalism
Piotr Popiołek on John Paul II's Christian resistance to totalitarianism.
Transubstantiation Isn't a Disconnected Doctrine
Brett Salkeld illustrates how to overcome misunderstandings about transubstantiation.
A Deceptively Simple Papal Document
Bishop Paul Tighe on learning to live with less.
Is a Secular University a Contradiction in Terms?
John Cavadini on John Paul II's Ex Corde Ecclesiae.
Participation or Alienation
Karol Wojtyła on the basics of persons and acts.
Pope Francis's New Vision for Catechists
Brian Pedraza on the establishment of the lay ministry of catechist.
Why We Still Need Saint Damien of Molokai
Lisa Lickona on how Damien de Veuster grew into his vocation.
Thomas Pynchon's Playful Jesuitism
Nick Ripatrazone on the reclusive writer's Catholicism.
The Architecture of an Urbanist Natural Law Principle
Philip Bess on Laudato Si' and justice in city planning.
Paul Kingsnorth's Green Götterdämmerung
Scott Beauchamp on the final installment of the Buccmaster Trilogy.
Marian Maximalism in Light of the Virgin's Fellowship in Christ’s Suffering
William Glass on the Protestant understanding of Mary as coredemptrix.
A Very Short Introduction to the History of Catholic Evolutionism
Kenneth Kemp on the history of Darwin's reception in the Catholic Church.
What Can Catholics Learn from Ramadan?
Gabriel Said Reynolds on the history and practices of the Muslim holiday.
There's No Neutral for Catholics
Brett Salkeld on dialogue and being faithful to the truth.
The Math Behind Dante's Divine Comedy
Matthew Canonico on the mirror experiment and the Divine point in Dante.
Catechist Nicholas Black Elk in the Aftermath of the European Invasion
Jon Sweeney on the unsettling history of Europeans in North America.
Pastoral Care, Political Action, and the Royal Office
Fritz Bauerschmidt on kingship and the Church.
Fragility, Amplified: The Contribution of the Latin Fathers to the Philosophy of Finitude
Timothy Troutner on Jean-Louis Chrétien's unique argument about the history of philosophy.
The Priest at the End of the Search for a Third Way
Elias Crim on Bl. Arizmendi, the patron saint of economic democracy.