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March 2017

March 09, 2017

Who Knew Sex Helps You to Experience God’s Presence in the World?

Who knew this about sex and God? Well, the writers of the Bible and the...

March 08, 2017

Increasingly Secularized Americans Are Sexless, But Catholics Might Be Bucking the Sex Trends

The sexual revolution appears to have paradoxically liberated our libidos from sex itself. This seems...

March 07, 2017

Lent Blockbuster: John Paul II’s Private Spiritual Diaries to Be Published Soon

The matter of privacy is especially dear to intellectuals. Milan Kundera, whom I mentioned in...

March 06, 2017

True Lent Humility Starts with the Realization That You’re Divine

The first Sunday before Lent has an exotic name "Quinquagesima Sunday," which only means...

March 03, 2017

Extraterrestrials Aren’t a Threat to Theology, Because They Aren’t New to the Ancient Church

I'm completely enthralled with the question, "Is there anybody out there?" --Fr. Brian Reedy SJ...

March 01, 2017

Don’t Give Up For Lent

To the outsider the season of Lent might seem like an irrational outbreak of Pelagianism....

February 2017

February 26, 2017

Oscar Best Picture Nominee “Arrival” and the Bearable Heaviness of Being

Light is sweet; at sight of the sun the eyes are glad. However great the...

February 24, 2017

See You at Fordham’s Future of the Catholic Literary Imagination Conference?

You'd think that a religious imagination that can produce public intellectuals such as Dana Gioia, Ron Hansen,...

February 21, 2017

Childlike Wonder in a Misbegotten World

Things are picking up speed here on Cosmos. Books are pouring in for review. This means...

February 15, 2017

The Young Pope: The Second Coming of Brideshead Revisited?

In many ways, The Young Pope is the second coming of Brideshead Revisited. In the...

February 14, 2017

February 14th is a Very Problematic Holiday For Many

Derrida liked to gleefully disseminate the news that the ancient Greek word for medicine (pharmakon) also means poison....

February 10, 2017

The Stanford Memorial Resolution for René Girard

René Girard was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Catholics tend to...

February 09, 2017

Lady Gaga: The Super Bowl’s Muse of Nationalist Catholicism

Catholicism isn't in decline in the United States. It is as loud and up-front as...

February 07, 2017

What Does Greek Philosopher Socrates Have to do with the Christian Saints?

The old question from Tertullian's Prescription Against the Heretics is "What does Athens have...

February 02, 2017

Alt-Right Bête Noire Milo Yiannopoulos is an Aquinas-quoting Catholic

The news of the violent Berkeley riots that canceled the promotion of alt-right bête noire Milo Yiannopoulos' forthcoming book Dangerous...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The Left Has Magically Discovered Religious Freedom!

Religious freedom as it actually functions in American politics is a very ambivalent issue. More often...

January 29, 2017

Why is the Trump Administration’s Executive Order Muslim Ban Forcing a Constitutional Crisis?

You too might be exhausted by the constant slacktivism on social media. It lacks and depth and...

January 26, 2017

An Immigration Lawyer Explains the “Extreme Vetting” of the Current Refugee Process

The Washington Post reports on the Trump administration's planned executive order on immigration vetting: The...

January 25, 2017

The Good = Evil + Time

[E]vil is a moment in the temporalized unfolding of the good. --John Panteleimon Manoussakis, The...

January 24, 2017

Why Are Protest Movements (Like the Women’s March) Ineffective?

The Women's March protest has me thinking about protest movements . . . if only...

January 22, 2017

St. Paul’s First Letter to the Catholics

Today's second reading is 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17: I urge you, brothers and sisters, in...

January 20, 2017

Read the Pope’s Message to Freshly Inaugurated President Trump

I'm tired of political commentary. I suspect I engaged in too much of it...

January 19, 2017

Why’s it so Hard to Shut the Noise Out?

Is it possible to be quiet and silent on the flight to Egypt? I ask because I...

January 18, 2017

Have You Tried Shutting Up?

It is better to remain silent and to be than to talk and not be....

January 17, 2017

Why Must God Hate the American Dream?

The American Dream is making a comeback. Trump channeled it with the Make America Great...

January 11, 2017

Zygmunt Bauman Goes to Eternity from Liquid Modernity

Caillebot's painting above is significant to me because in and through its simplicity the painting evokes a world of...

December 2016

December 11, 2016

TOP10 Booklist: What Theology, Science & Philosophy Should Be Under Your Christmas Tree?

Theology buffs have more of a Christmas gift dilemma than science and philosophy readers. The...

December 10, 2016

The Medieval Catholic Origins of Human Rights (Day)

The head-in-the-sand stance of many Catholics toward the modern world leaves them unprepared to engage their...

December 05, 2016

Religion: Either Everything, or Nothing

"Religion is either everything, or it is nothing." --Pawel Rojek, Avant-garde Conservatism "Christianity has functioned...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

The Reformation is Not Done with You

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." --William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun...

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