Two Contradictory Principles of Social Life
Charles Taylor on Fr. Józef Tischner and the need for solidarity.
Articles
What If We're Waiting for Jonah?
Leonard DeLorenzo on an empire whose ways had run afoul of the Lord.
The Afterlife of Bergman's The Seventh Seal
David Griffith on watching the cinema classic after the death of Max von Sydow and during a pandemic.
Camus and the Great Conundrum
Steven Garber on The Plague—a surprise recent bestseller.
Roberto Esposito: Philosopher of Community and Immunity?
Robert Wyllie on whether Roberto Esposito picks up the baton Giorgio Agamben dropped.
A Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World Asks: Has It Happened at Last?
Jessica Hooten Wilson on Walker Percy's fiction and the experience of catasrophe.
Reasons for Reading the Decameron Even After Coronavirus Is Over
Stephen Metzger on what Boccacio's classic has to say theologically.
The Church's Response Is Saying ‘No’ to Death's Dominion
Timothy O'Malley on how the Church's COVID-19 response is building a culture of life.
Co-Responsibility: An Antidote to Clericalizing the Laity?
John Cavadini on how to avoid the development of a lay clericalism.
Dear Students: There Is No Afterwards
Leonard DeLorenzo's letter to students on life after the pandemic.
You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die
Eugene McCarraher on the pecuniary theology of neoliberalism.
The Origins of Quarantine in Lent
John Panteleimon Manoussakis on the Quarantine, Venice, and a sui generis Lent.
Imagine There's No Heaven nor Hell
Tomáš Halík reflects on fear, anxiety, and the disappearance of the Last Things.
The Mass Is Still With Us Even Under Quarantine
Timothy O'Malley argues that Catholics can no more escape participation in the Eucharist than they can escape their human bodies.
A Society Riddled with Suspicion and Paranoia
Suzanne Wolfe writing in a genre in which crime and punishment are alive and well.
A Catholic Reading of the Spirituality in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
M. Shawn Copeland explores the Nobel Prize winner's affinity for material Catholic devotional life.
The Catholic Artist in a Neo-Pagan Age
James Matthew Wilson shows how to speak to postmoderns like Paul spoke to the Greeks.
The City Is Sick
John Panteleimon Manoussakis on contagion in the literary works of Sophocles and Camus.
Friendship With God After a Time of Tragedy
Jane Peters on friendship in the life and philosophy of Raïssa Maritain
On Reading Well After Virtue
Karen Swallow-Prior on the virtues of reading and virtuous readers.
