The Chosen and the Tradition of Apostolic Fan Fiction
Patrick Gray on a tradition almost as old as Christianity itself.
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Arts
The Exorcist and the Terror of Unbelief
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Jessica Hooten Wilson on carrying the fire.
Catechesis
The Two Births of Christ in Aquinas and De Koninck
Susan Waldstein on the Incarnation.
The Gobsmacking Wisdom of the Book of Judges
Chase Padusniak on the good God of the Old Testament.The Church Is the Sacrament of the Preferential Option for the Poor
John Cavadini on the marginalized and Christian love.
Catholic Education
Thinking Better: Teaching God to Tweens
Ulrich Lehner on battling relativism and defending realism.
New Pathways for Catholic Schools After the Pandemic
Kati Macaluso on the importance of in-person instruction.Is a Secular University a Contradiction in Terms?
John Cavadini on John Paul II's Ex Corde Ecclesiae.
Catholic Imagination
Dante and the Desire to Go Beyond the Human
Stephen Gregg, OCist on hell and other people.
The Uneven Race Between Work and Marriage
Joshua Hren on competing callings.Searching for a Secular Age
James Matthew Wilson on Myles Connolly's postsecular modernism.
Liturgy
Traditionis Custodes Challenges Everyone
William Johnston on Vatican II and a liturgical debate.
Shedding Tears for Royal Tenenbaum: A Liturgical Approach
Joshua Whitfield on Wes Anderson and the spiritual dimensions of cinema.Traditionis Custodes: How Did We Get Here?
William Johnston on the history of recent liturgical reforms.
Monsters
Modernity's Feasting on Fluid Bodies and Empty Selves
Angela Franks on vampires, zombies, and identities.
The Blood of Dionysus or the Vineyard of the Lord?
Angela Franks on the will to power versus the logic of the cross.97 Theses on Hegel and His Catholic Readers
Cyril O'Regan on Hegel's 250th birthday and spiders.
News
Running Out of Options
Terence Sweeney on what comes after the Benedict Option craze goes integralist.
Pope Francis and the Pursuit of an Alternative Hedonism
Kate Soper on a humane standard of living.You Can Have Your Tylenol Too: A Note on the Objections of Some Catholics to Using COVID-19 Vaccines
Brett Salkeld on the wide use of HEK 293 line to test everyday products.
Notre Dame Press
Godsends: The Surprise of Revelation
William Desmond on the philosophy of revelation.
Henri de Lubac, Contemporary Atheism, and the Persuasiveness of Christian Doctrine
Jordan Hillebert on the drama of human existence.Do Children Contribute to the Flourishing of Their Parents?
Christopher Kaczor on the mutual implication of suffering and flourishing.
Pro-Life
Love to the Very End: A Theology of Dementia
Xavier Symons on personalism and understanding dementia.
The Historical Irony of Feminism's Silencing of Women
Abigail Favale on the great un-naming.You Can Have Your Tylenol Too: A Note on the Objections of Some Catholics to Using COVID-19 Vaccines
Brett Salkeld on the wide use of HEK 293 line to test everyday products.
Saturdays with the Saints
Life After COVID-19: History Doesn't Repeat Itself
Timothy O'Malley on saintliness and communion.
Saints of the Black Death
Timothy O'Malley on the witness of the saints during a pandemic.How Did the Church Fare During the Black Death and 400 Years of the Plague?
Timothy O'Malley on the Church in a time of civilizational crisis.
Science and Religion
Does Neuroscience Allow Us to Believe in Human Freedom?
Aaron Schurger on what the current science is, and is not, able to say.
COVID-19 Vaccines and the Limits of the Conscience Protection
Stephen Doran on Catholic bioethics.The Catholic Woman Who Pioneered the Field of Archaeology
Kathryn Price on the life and work of Dorothy Garrod.
Tech and Media
The Image and the Idol: A Theological Reflection on AI Bias
Jordan Wales on the prejudices built into artificial intelligence.
What Comes After the Failure of Technocracy?
Stephen Okey on the pope's challenge to the world.Exposed Before Digital Omniscience: A Theological Reading of Surveillance Capitalism
Matthew Shadle on the market afterlife of our data.
Theology
Is the Concept of Human Dignity Philosophically Verifiable?
Roberto De La Noval on the approach to the question through interiority.
Neither Virtuous Nor Vicious: A Critique of Contemporary Virtue Ethics
Brendan Case on vindicating Christian mediocrity.The Theologian's Freedom: Ludovico Muratori and the Limits of Theological Speech
Ulrich Lehner on a major figure of the Catholic Enlightenment.