Job and the Problem of Evil Versus the Tribunal of History
Cyril O'Regan, Catherine F. Huisking Chair in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, considers Job's example as a movement towards faith critically held.
Articles
The Unsung Russian Forerunner of the Death Penalty's Demise in Catholic Teaching
Andrew Kuiper, writer and editor, considers the likely influence of Vladimir Solovyov upon John Paul II's teachings against capital punishment.
Addressing the American Suicide Contagion
Anna Keating, author of The Catholic Catalogue & Colorado College Catholic chaplain, proposes solutions to the suicide epidemic in the United States.
Modernity's Marginalization of Philosophy Makes the Practice of Everyday Life Unintelligible
Caleb Bernacchio, PhD candidate at IESE Business School, looks to Alasdair MacIntyre to ask existential questions about asking philosophical questions.
Cultivating Benedictine Wonder
Jane Peters, writer and PhD candidate in historical theology at Marquette University, gives you a generous first-person slice of the Benedictine life.
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.
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 on the Catholicism 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.