Humanae Vitae and the Mystical Call of Chastity
Michael Wee, Education Officer of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, explores the mystical dimension of Humanae Vitae's call to martial chastity.
July 2018
Humanae Vitae After Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Charles Camosy, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Fordham, analyzes new approaches to fertility that respect and work with the body's ecology.
The Catholic Imaginings of Jimmy Buffett
Stephen Metzger, Notre Dame Medieval Institute PhD and schoolteacher, finds inspiration for Catholic education in the songs and biography of Jimmy Buffett.
The Spiritual Was More Substantial Than the Material for the Ancients
D.B. Hart, theologian and New Testament translator, explores the NT's strange intellectual world by defining what spirit, soul, and flesh meant to its writers.
Is There an Escape from the Evils of a Contracepting Society?
Angela Franks on Humane Vitae's pointers towards a culture that doesn't scapegoat fertility.
Humanae Vitae in Light of the War Against Female Fertility
Angela Franks, Theological Institute for the New Evangelization Professor, on Humanae Vitae's reception alongside the history of scapegoating female fertility.
The Light of the Liberal Arts is Different in Light of the Faith
Anne Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Theology at Saint Mary’s College (CA), looks at the liberal arts through the loving arms of the Incarnation.
None of Us Shall Enter the Kingdom?
Luís Pinto de Sá, SLU doctoral candidate in philosophy, looks at one of the classics of world cinema, Ordet, a film about the theological virtue of faith.
The Resplendent Completion of the Liberal Arts
Anne Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Theology at Saint Mary’s College, invites you to think about the meaning of meaning and the aim of the liberal arts.
Ora et Labora: Christians Don't Need Leisure
Paul J. Griffiths, former Duke Warren Chair of Catholic Theology, argues that there is nothing for the Christian between work and prayer in a Fallen World.
The Benedictine Charism of Slow Evangelization
Br. Stanley Rother Wagner, OSB, a junior monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, on how ritual slowly cultivates the inner-longing of our hearts.
Desanitizing Christianity After St. Benedict and After Virtue
Gregory Floyd, Core Program at Seton Hall instructor, gets to the bottom of what Alasdair MacIntyre wanted to say about St. Benedict in After Virtue.
Remembering Creation Through the Saturday Sabbath
Fr. Matthew Dallman, pastor of the Parish of Tazewell County, recommends taking the Sabbath to contemplate the Lord through his wondrous works of creation.
Justice Kennedy, Judge Kavanaugh, and Our Two Supreme Courts
Richard Garnett, ND Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, pulls back the curtains to reveal how the Supreme Court really works.
The Horror Inherent in Leisure
Bo Bonner on the overlooked horror-inducing quality of leisure and its orientation toward transcendence.
The Personalist Awakening in 20th Century Catholic Moral Thought
Jay Martin, McGrath Institute Science & Religion Initiative Co-Director, sheds light on the ressourcement of the human person in recent Catholic thought.
The Mocking of Christ by the Glittering Spectacles of Consumerism
Alexander Pyles, writer and philosopher, takes a look at the "Gifts Glittering and Poisoned" of Ancient Rome and how the Eucharist defeats them.
Byung-Chul Han and the Subversive Power of Contemplation
Robert Wyllie mines the philosopher's theories for the reasons why even leisure burns us out in the Internet age.
Alexander Schmemann's Rejection of Orthodoxism
David Fagerberg, Notre Dame theology department professor of liturgical studies, looks at what Schmemann thought the liturgy is and what it is not.
Work: A Four-Letter Word?
Charles Kestermeier, SJ, instructor in the English department at Creighton University, reflects on the Christian ambivalence towards the world of work.
The Sacramentality of Time
Katherine Infantine, Roncalli HS theology teacher, demonstrates how sacramental practices give us leisure from the constant busyness of the late modern world.
Josef Pieper's Critique of Western Civ
Elias Crim, founder of Solidarity Hall and host of Dorothy's Place, reflects upon the subversive legacy of Josef Pieper, philosopher of leisure and culture.
The Digital Displacement of Transcendence at Concerts
Roberto De La Noval, ND PhD candidate in Theology, observes how the emergence of the "flattered self" obliterates secular analogues of transcendence.
