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July 2017

July 12, 2017

The Surprising Anti-Capitalist Logic Behind the Catholic Church’s Continued Ban of Gluten-Free Hosts

The continued ban of gluten-free hosts in the Catholic Church shows that the specificity of...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

How is Classical Philosophy is Like War?

Emmanuel Levinas, the father of personalist-oriented phenomenology, reminds us that war is the model for...

May 26, 2017

Why Does the World’s Leading Philosopher Remain a Catholic?

Catholic triumphalism isn't much in fashion these days, but Jean-Luc Marion bucks the trends.

April 2017

April 14, 2017

It’s a Good Friday to Leave Calypso’s Island

The specter of death haunts Western civilization at its roots like any other civilization. Greek and...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

Prayer Isn’t About God

Prayer, modern people think it's about God. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Praying is difficult to understand, because we...

March 13, 2017

Is There a Way to Get Beyond Making the Best of a Bad Liturgy?

The following is an exchange I facilitated between Villanova theologian Kevin Hughes and Notre Dame liturgist...

March 10, 2017

Why is the Catholic Experience of Sex so Different from the Protestant Experience of Sex?

Our religious beliefs are not private, because they shape our experiences of fundamental realities such...

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 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...

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 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 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 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 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 17, 2017

Why Must God Hate the American Dream?

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

December 2016

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...

October 2016

October 12, 2016

Executive Director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good Responds to “Catholic Spring” Wikileaks Allegations

When I woke up this morning, I never thought I would get caught up in...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

Reflections of a Priest from India on the Consequences of White Privilege in America

As I've remarked on occasion, I have social media "friends" of all kinds of political...

September 14, 2016

Benedict XVI Admits to Being an Early Critic of Humanae Vitae in Book-Length Interview

A religion is only plausible if it tells you what to do with your genitals....

September 03, 2016

Thinker Behind the “Benedict Option” Appears to be Taking a Neo-Marxist Turn

Rod Dreher has been very generous to this blog throughout the years. Cosmos has been...

September 02, 2016

Humility Turns Away the Liturgy Police

Last week, I wrote a reflection on the role of discipline in the Christian life....

August 2016

August 23, 2016

Pokémon is Anti-Christian, but It’s Not Anti-Catholic

The Pokémon phenomenon is inescapable. I might the only person who hasn't played the game...

August 14, 2016

Last Eyewitness Explains What the Sacrifice of St. Maximilian Kolbe Means

Let us remember that love lives through sacrifice and is nourished by giving. Without sacrifice...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

Why Are Muslims Filling Up France’s Traditionally Empty Churches Today?

As someone who lived in Nantes, France for nearly a year I can say that...

July 20, 2016

The Structural Sin of Racism Rends the Body of Christ

Anyone with the slightest sensitivity…cannot fail to recognize the nature of National Socialism: naturalistic, antagonistic...

July 19, 2016

Analyzing Steve Skojec’s Poop Slinging at the Pope: A Running Commentary

I exhort you — be zealous to do all things in harmony with God, with the...

July 18, 2016

Take Leave of the American Catholic Blogosphere’s Bad Conscience

Theology is born when the arbitrary judgment of reason encounters a limit, in that we...

July 07, 2016

Only Useful Idiots Would Say Cardinal Zen is Calling for Schism in China

On June 30, 2016, the Italian news outlet La Stampa put out an article written...