The Great Books Aren't Timeless, But They Can Still Teach Us
Anthony Barr, frequent contributor to Ethika Politika and the Circe Institute, looks at the Great Books from a completely different angle.
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Natural Family Planning and the Myth of Catholic Contraception
Michael Wee, Education Officer of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, explains the differences between two rival versions of marriage.
How to Reclaim the Literal Interpretation of the Bible
Noelle Johnson, intern for the Science and Religion Initiative at the McGrath Institute, clears up confusions about the real meaning of the Bible's literal sense.
Homo AvocadoPanem: An Anthropology of the Millennial Imagination
Renée D. Roden, ND MTS student and graduate fellow of the McGrath Institute for Church Life, serves up sacrifice without avocado to Millennials.
The Cross Must Be Deeply Ugly to Be Beautiful
Nathaniel Peters, Executive Director of the Morningside Institute and lecturer at Columbia University, holds the beautiful and sublime of the cross together.
The Serious Sacrificial Body
Timothy O'Malley, Director of the University of Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, refuses substitutions for the real body of Christ.
The Power of a Story to Reorient Racist Assumptions
SPOILER ALERT: This review does indeed contain spoilers from the 2018 Best Picture nominee Get Out.
From Duet to Duel
SPOILER ALERT: This review does indeed contain spoilers from the 2018 Best Picture nominee Phantom Thread.
An Inverted Victory
SPOILER ALERT: This review does indeed contain spoilers from the 2018 Best Picture nominee Dunkirk.
Democracy Dies in Distortion
SPOILER ALERT: This review does indeed contain spoilers from the 2018 Best Picture nominee The Post.
The Exemplary Clarity of the Five Proofs of the Existence of God
David Bentley Hart, ND Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, reviews Edward Feser's recently published book "Five Proofs of the Existence of God."
René Girard's Thoughts for a New Nuclear Age
Cynthia Haven, René Girard biographer, chronicles Girard's development of ideas about human nature that are fundamental to humanity's survival.
We Have Never Been Medieval
Stephen Metzger explodes the unexamined assumptions of modernity.
Death Clarifies What We Love
Gregory Floyd, who teaches in the Core Program at Seton Hall, considers a kind of theology that is not written in words, but written in lives.
The Very Human Fears of the Saints
Colleen Halpin, Church Life Intern at the Institute for Church Life, considers how hope coexists with harrowing uncertainty in the the lives of the saints.Grace Lurking in the Midst of an All-Consuming Anger
SPOILER ALERT: This review does indeed contain spoilers from the 2018 Best Picture nominee Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
An Accidental Allegory of the Sheep and the Goats
SPOILER ALERT: This review does indeed contain spoilers from 2018 Oscars Best Picture nominee The Shape of Water.
Desire Can Also Be Destructive
SPOILER ALERT: This review of 2018 Oscar Best Picture nominee "Call Me By Your Name" does indeed contain spoilers.
Winston Churchill's Dark Night of the Soul
SPOILER ALERT: This review does indeed contain spoilers. Darkest Hour is a compelling dramatization of the life of Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the time between the resignation of his predecessor, Neville Chamberlain (which...
Our Children Might Return to the Church, but Our Grandchildren Most Likely Won't
Daniel McClain, Chaplain to the College of William & Mary, scrutinizes children at play and the failures of religious education.