Flannery O'Connor: The American Master
David Griffith's reflections on the recent PBS Flannery documentary.
2021
A Massive Sea Change in Recent Theology
Philip Gonzales on the rebirth of metaphysics in current theology and philosophy.
Searching for a Secular Age
James Matthew Wilson on Myles Connolly's postsecular modernism.
The Rise and Fall of Father Zahm
John Slattery on the history of faith and evolutionary science at the University of Notre Dame.
Does the Origin of the Fetal Cells Used for Developing Vaccines Make Any Difference?
Brett Salkeld on abortion and the development of the HEK293 line.
The Question of Gender is First and Foremost a Metaphysical Question
Rachel Coleman on approaches to the philosophy of gender.
Christian Conviction Doesn't Shut Down Dialogue
John Cavadini on the trajectories of Vatican II in John Paul II's theology.
The Fallout from the 20th Century Quarrel Over the Subject
Angela Franks on the death of man after the death of God.
The Brain Resides in the Soul (Not the Other Way Around)
Brendan Case on the reversals of George Berkeley's Christian Neoplatonism.
Chiara Lubich's Gift
Peter Casarella on the international fruits of a mystical vision.
The Ingredients for Making a Good Confession
Paul Griffiths and regret and avowals.
When Death and Dying Breach the Classroom Walls
Leachman and Kinlaw on teaching students about the inevitable.
What Is Distinctively Christian?
Klaus Hemmerle on the need for a Trinitarian ontology.
Sex and Secularization
Philip Jenkins on the relationship between fertility and faith.
Modern Warfare's Terrible Toll
Hadas and Ledwidge on killing civilians.
The New Perspective on the Underground Railroad
William Kashatus on the new picture of the Underground Railroad.
The Kids Aren't Alt-Lite
Roberto De La Noval on the Heroes of the Fourth Turning.
Transhumanism's Exploitation of the Basic Human Need for Radical Transformation
Daniel Kuebler on the incoherence of genetic enhancement.
Peter Singer's Shallow Pond Meets Catholic Almsgiving
Joseph Tulloch on the strangeness of the Church's teaching on money.
An Experiment in Criticism of the Literary Canon
Jessica Hooten Wilson on expanding the canon rather than pruning it.
Science Against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo
Christopher Graney on the history of science versus heliocentrism.
Faith in the Modern Areopagus
Rowan Williams on the human need to worship.
The Voice of Jesus in Lent's Being-Toward-Death
Jorge Roque, SJ on being-towards-death and the voice of Jesus.
The Eucharistic Short-Circuiting of Cancel Culture
Timothy O'Malley on turning things down several notches.
A Brief History of the Christian Ritual Kiss
Michael Philip Penn on kissing among early Christians.
St. Augustine's Phenomenology of Modern Fashion's Logic
Robert Covolo on what clothes make of the man.
The Case of the Great Pandemic Liturgical Flip-Flop
Thomas Humphries on the awkward vigor of the Christian life.
A Catholic Response to Workism: How to Lose at Life
Elizabeth Klein on Millennials and the future.
Finding Christ Among the Karamazovs
Paul Contino on Dostoevsky's incarnational realism.
Black Lives and the Preferential Option for the Poor
John Cavadini on what lives matter according to the Gospel.
