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November 2014

November 01, 2014

MacIntyre: What the Natural Sciences Do Not Explain

I am going through a bit of a MacIntyre renaissance of late. I've realized the...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Reformation Day is an Oops?

Another day, another year, another Halloween, and yet another Reformation Day. Today some of us...

October 30, 2014

Doubt Douthat’s Donatist Precipice

Ross Douthat's "The Pope and Precipice" has received plenty of attention of late. Rod Dreher...

October 29, 2014

The Church’s Geopolitical Chess Strategy

Today I conclude my interview on the Church and Hong Kong with Dr. Justin Tse...

October 28, 2014

The Consequences of God’s Maternal Thinking for Theology

The feminist Sara Ruddick must be doing something right if both Alasdair MacIntyre and Janet Martin...

October 27, 2014

Mini TOP10: Books on Vatican Relations with China and Hong Kong

Today we feature an exclusive peek ahead to the third installment of my interview...

October 23, 2014

What We Want is a Spirituality of Wiping Bottoms and Breastfeeding!

Yesterday's post featured Alasdair MacIntyre discussing how much the philosophical tradition has ignored the dependencies...

October 22, 2014

MacIntyre’s Revelatory Argument About Disability

There is nothing like the thrill of discovering a new vein of thought. The only...

October 21, 2014

Percy on Mental Hygiene: You Are Entitled to Your Depression

Octorber 5-11 was mental health week. You probably heard it mentioned on any of the...

October 18, 2014

The Veils of Separation Drop

In a curious reversal of the Parable of the Good Samaritan I picked up an...

October 17, 2014

Disproportionate Influence: Catholicism and the #HongKongProtests

This is the second installment of my interview with Dr. Justin Tse. It concentrates upon...

October 16, 2014

Synod14: It’s Déjà vu All Over Again!

The Synod reporting has been nothing short of apocalyptic. And I do love it in...

October 15, 2014

Cardinal Zen and the Art of the Hong Kong Protests

Since the Synod is occupying everyone's minds, including my own, I thought I'd change things...

October 08, 2014

Synod14: The Church Needs to Replace the Family

When grandiose Church events such as the Synod on the Family roll around I look...

October 07, 2014

Every Gun n’ Rose Has Its Thorn

After driving Dominik to kindergarten I took the girls for a spin around the block...

October 04, 2014

Travel Elegy

Wislawa Szymborska, "Travel Elegy" from Poems New and Collected Everything's mine though just on loan,...

October 03, 2014

Talking At the Muslim Leadership Is Futile

Leading up to the coalition of the willing waging war against ISIS much noise was made about...

October 02, 2014

Walker Percy Fan Delivers Jefferson Lecture on Uncle Walker!

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the famous Walker Percy Jefferson Lecture "The San...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Psychopolitics: Schmitt, Bush’s Iraq Mess, and the Saddam Solution

Carl Schmitt who was one of those extremely bad Catholics like Heidegger who...

September 25, 2014

On Not Fighting Matt Walsh’s Cultural Warrior Contagion

Let me be clear, I can only read Matt Walsh's constant emoting one paragraph at...

September 24, 2014

No Devil, No God

There is an amusing episode recounted by the distinguished historian Tony Judt in his NYRB...

September 23, 2014

Ruined by Books 2: My TOP10 Philosophy List

Today, as promised in last week's TOP10 novel list, we continue on my semi-autobiographical experiment in book...

September 22, 2014

All the Best to the Russians, But I Am Profoundly Skeptical

The Merton Annual asked me to write a piece about the Thomas Merton - Czeslaw...

September 18, 2014

Ruined by Books: My TOP10 Novel List

Thinking through betrayal reminded me of Hermann Broch's novel The Sleepwalkers. It's one of those...

September 17, 2014

Hermann, Max, Woody and Falling Out of the Ordo Amoris

Yesterday we discussed Woody Allen as a liminal personality stuck somewhere between belief and disbelief. Being...

September 16, 2014

Woody Allen Considers Conversion

Allen’s latest film Magic in the Moonlight has not received the credit it deserves. At first glance...

September 14, 2014

The Empire Strikes Back: Feast of the Holy Cross

It's easy to forget the Feast of the Holy Cross is a consummate Constantinian feast....

September 12, 2014

They Were Not Able to Separate the Soul From the Flesh

Finishing Theology of Transformation was one of those bittersweet reading moments: I was happy to...

September 11, 2014

America’s Post 9/11 Nihilism

John Zmirak's writing, while it it is not serious theology, philosophy, or economic theory, has...

September 10, 2014

Atheism’s Ancient Creation Myth

The cardinal rule for writing a book is starting out strong with a memorable story,...

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