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April 2014

April 28, 2014

No More Throne and Altar: St. JP2 on Inequality is the Root of Social Evil

Pope Francis caused a storm of controversy with the tweet, "Inequality is the root of social...

April 27, 2014

Ode for John Paul II by Czeslaw Milosz

"Ode for the Eightieth Birthday of Pope John Paul II" by Czeslaw Milosz in New...

April 25, 2014

Why I Thank Goodness For (Some) Atheists!

“I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some...

April 23, 2014

James K.A. Smith: Seeking Transcendence in a Secular Age

Isn't it strange how life seems to offer almost as many connections as a...

April 22, 2014

Charles Taylor: The State of Religion in a Secular Age (Firth Lectures)

If you've missed the discussions surrounding Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, then you've been living...

April 20, 2014

Resurrection Sunday: Whoever Believes That Should Not Behave as We Do

“Christ is risen.” Whoever believes thatShould not behave as we do,Who have lost the up,...

April 19, 2014

Holy Saturday: Death is Here to Teach us Something

Yesterday I happened upon a PBS interview with the poet Christian Wiman author of the acclaimed...

April 18, 2014

A Non-Triumphant Descent Into Hell with Hans Urs von Balthasar

I'm usually a few days (or a few months behind) on almost everything I do....

April 17, 2014

Catholiclandia: Solidarity Means Carrying One Another's Burden

Maundy Thursday usually has people twittering about whose carefully cultivated stinky feet will get...

April 16, 2014

What Do We Make of a Disturbingly Radical Papacy?

There are papacies and there are radical papacies. Nobody notices the really radical papacies, because...

April 15, 2014

He Emptied Himself: A Kenosis Reading List

Thanks to repetition and the familiarity it breeds Palm Sunday's second reading, as probably with...

April 10, 2014

Why Be So Harsh on George Weigel? Because of What Weigel Said.

I've penned an Immigration Manifesto with Sam Rocha over at Ethika Politika. Our displeasure with...

April 08, 2014

The Early Church's Choice Between Neoplatonism & Neoplatonism

There is nothing to be embarrassed by the overlaps between Christianity and other world religions....

April 02, 2014

John Paul II, the Artist in You, and Coleridge

John Paul II died nine years ago today. His background in the theater and...

April 01, 2014

Famous Feminists Who Aren't Atheists: Luce Irigaray, Catholic

It took me a while to figure out a topic for April Fool's that would...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Liturgy, Fanny Howe, and the Horrors of Reality

I'd like to enlist the poet Fanny Howe in the service of defending Eagleton's characterization...

March 25, 2014

Squishy New Atheist Pieties Miss Gospel Love’s Ruthless Demands

What's the difference between this... ...and this? And what do both of them have to...

March 21, 2014

The Eclipse of Science During Those Terrible Middle Ages

You might think the debunking of the Bruno, Galileo (Never tortured, spent three days in prison,...

March 19, 2014

Walker Percy on the College Dorm Arguments of Sagan and deGrasse Tyson

There is an extended footnote in Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help...

March 17, 2014

Larry Chapp: How Has Modern Science Shaped Theology?

The third part of my interview with Larry Chapp on the state of the dialogue...

March 16, 2014

Bye-Bye Hypatia Science Martyr?

Continuing in a demythologizing vein I'd like to debunk the picture of Hypatia of Alexandria...

March 13, 2014

Lies, Damned Lies, and Cartoons: Cosmos on Giordano Bruno

NEWSFLASH: The Giordano Bruno portion of "Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey" (click link to watch the...

March 12, 2014

Lost in the Cosmos: Why Does Space Leave Us Cold?

Once in a while you run across a thread that nearly makes all those hours...

March 11, 2014

Augustine Rocha n' Rolls

Confession: I'm not here to talk about rock n' roll... but Augustine still doesn't even...

March 07, 2014

Cross-Kremlin-Orthodoxy: Conservative (Non)Moments Near Catholiclandia

The rumors of Russia's Conservative Moment remain rumors. The return of Holy Orthodox Russia is...

March 04, 2014

Larry Chapp: Christianity is the Most Worldly Religion of All

Part II of Larry Chapp's interview with me is now available here on Ethika Politika. A...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

I Don't Believe in an Interventionist God

The first part of Larry Chapp's interview is up right here on Ethika Politika. May...

February 27, 2014

Understanding the Mechanics of the Incarnation? Larry Chapp Interview

Today brings you an excerpt from an interview I recently conducted with theologian Larry Chapp....

February 26, 2014

Quick Catholic Ch-Ch-Ch Changes: Pope Francis Does a Phil Jenkins

It seems that the changes in the Catholic Church under Pope Francis are proving Philip...

February 25, 2014

What Makes Literature Catholic?

One of the main problems with current debates about the state of Catholic literature is...

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