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August 12, 2013

A Fish Rots from the Head Down (On Paul Elie and Secularization in the Arts)

The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) is widely read in American poetry circles. It wouldn't be...

August 10, 2013

Confession: How I Lost My Faith After Reading Rachel Held Evans

I'm around 35 (!) and I can't say whether I qualify as millennial. But fear...

August 07, 2013

What Does Love Know?

Jean-Luc Marion is a Catholic philosopher, some say the greatest living philosopher, who studied under...

August 06, 2013

Top 10 Recent Books: 5 on Heaven, 5 on Hell

I've recently written on both heaven and on hell. My own readings on these topics...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

The Prolegomena to Any Future Newman

Below is an excerpt from an interview with Nick Ripatrazone featured today on his blog The Fine...

July 30, 2013

A True Opium for the People is a Belief in Nothingness After Death!

When was the last time any of you (who don't attend fundamentalist churches) heard a...

July 26, 2013

Orientalist Dreams of Poland as Catholiclandia (Part II)

Yesterday kicked off a series of posts about the orientalization of Poland among Western scholars....

July 25, 2013

Orientalist Dreams of Poland as Catholiclandia (Part I)

There are plenty of stereotypes floating in the seas of religious punditry. The so-called pundits...

July 24, 2013

Eternity in a Dunghill: Infinity and Perspective

You've no doubt encountered Blake's "Auguries of Innocence." It begins with: To see a world...

July 20, 2013

Coetzee on the Stillbirth of the Humanities Out of Theology

I suspect the endless essays about the rethinking, protecting, death, in other words, the "crisis,"...

July 19, 2013

The Ideological Winters of American Catholicism

The average American parishioner is more faithful to the Democratic and Republican platforms than the...

July 18, 2013

Coetzee Demolishes Greek Harmony With Christian Agony

The best religious novelist of our time isn't, as far as I know, a Christian...

July 16, 2013

You Have no Idea How Much Nastier I Would be if I Was Not a Catholic

My post about the historical roots of resistance to the widespread and sociologically natural practice...

July 14, 2013

Anti-Catholicism: America’s Last Acceptable Prejudice

Systematic prejudice in America is rightfully in the spotlight again after yesterday's verdict in Florida....

July 12, 2013

Top 10 Theology Books of the Last 10 Years (That I've Read)

Here is a list of what I consider to be the ten most important theology-related...

July 11, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists 3: Warhol's Byzantine Iconoclasm & the Mystery of Blau's Bafflement

You'd be surprised how many Christian academics with cushy jobs at state schools are gloating...

July 10, 2013

The Wild & Wooly von Balthasar

It's a given von Balthasar is smarter than you are. Henri de Lubac once called...

July 07, 2013

Kristeva: The Obscenely [Baroque] Catholic Difference

What I love the best about the passage I'm going to quote at length below...

July 03, 2013

American Idol: Religious Freedom

That something went wrong with the post-conciliar Church is a truism of both left and...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Debunking Science & Religion Myths: The Copernican Revolution Wasn't a Demotion

The science and religion debates are chock-full of ideological myths. Nowadays the scientific side usually...

June 23, 2013

Sunday Spoiler: The Liturgy Is *Not* Sacred

If you're looking for a book which is a huge difference-maker in how you view...

June 22, 2013

Colm Toibin's Regensburg Moment & Macauley's Catholic Dissidents

Colm Tóibín's The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe is a real treat. There's...

June 20, 2013

Pagan Symbols and the Coming Christianity

Philip Jenkins of Baylor U is probably our most perceptive commentator on religion. His views...

June 19, 2013

One More Nortre Dame Book on/and the Legacy of Solidarność

Last night I went back and checked the Notre Dame Press overstock site on a...

June 16, 2013

Rabelaisian Catholicism Redux or: How to Keep the Church Impure

Yesterday's post discussed (here) how early Christian theology was fundamentally "polluted" by the Greek tradition...

June 14, 2013

Rick Perry is Right? The Myth of Religious Freedom in America.

I don't want to belabor the obvious when it comes to Perry's right-ness. What I...

June 13, 2013

Athens and Jerusalem: Philosophy as a Way of Life

In De praescriptione, vii Tertullian asks, What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What concord is there...

June 12, 2013

Supersessionism: Two for the Price of One?

Debates about supersessionism frequently flare up in America between evangelicals (generally pro) and mainliners (generally...

June 11, 2013

Czesław Miłosz | To Raja Rao

TO RAJA RAO Czesław Miłosz Raja, I wish I knew the cause of that malady....

June 10, 2013

My Being Turns to Smoke

Sonnet [read at 3AM] My being turns to smoke in the mad strife Of passions...