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July 2015

July 23, 2015

On a Middle Class Pilgrimage

Kevin L. Hughes is Chair of the Humanities Department at Villanova University. He is the...

July 09, 2015

Chesterton: Capitalism Killed the Family

You, no doubt, have heard it said (totally out of context) by Chesterton: Too much...

July 08, 2015

NO JOKE: Pope Francis to be Tried by Re-Established Sanhedrin!

I found the weirdest piece of news on my day off from my new temp...

July 03, 2015

Francis’s Integral Ecology: A Bonaventuran Methadone For Our Technocratic Addictions

Kevin L. Hughes is Chair of the Humanities Department at Villanova University. He is the...

July 01, 2015

God Provides the Justification: Jean-François Garneau on #WhyRemainCatholic

Jean-François Garneau is a management consultant and an adjunct professor of management at the École...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Difference, Disharmony, and Drama Are the Essence of Marriage

The debates around the redefinition of marriage in the United States orbit around the philosophy...

June 27, 2015

The Queer Catholic Pro-Life Logic of the Gay Marriage Majority Decision

The second half of Jody Bottum's Age of Anxiety makes a strong case for the...

June 23, 2015

Conservatives (Not Liberals) Planted American Catholic Dissent

“I love clichés and hackneyed expressions of every kind because they’re largely true,” says Violet...

June 18, 2015

The Official Edition of Laudato Si’ is Now Available

The final and official edition of Laudato Si' is now available online through the Vatican...

June 17, 2015

2 Possible Questions About Rod Dreher’s “Orthodoxy, Catholicism, & the State”

I am thankful Rod Dreher took up my piece "Why Doesn't Holy Mother Russia Remain...

June 16, 2015

Previewing Laudato Si’: Anthony Annett on Integral Ecology

Anthony Annett is a climate change and sustainable development advisor at the Earth Institute (Columbia...

June 15, 2015

Draft of Pope Francis’ /Laudato Si/ Encyclical Leaked Today

I once made a joke of using Benedict XVI quotes as leaked pieces of the...

June 13, 2015

Why Does Continental Philosopher Richard Kearney Remain Catholic?

Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and has...

June 10, 2015

Why Doesn’t Holy Mother Russia Remain Orthodox?

This is an experiment in extending the #whyremaincatholic brush onto a wider canvas in order...

June 05, 2015

The Sacramental Imagination: Why Emily Edmondson Remains Catholic

This is a guest post. ================ Emily Edmondson is a graduate student at the University...

June 04, 2015

Get 2 Know a Catholic Publisher: TOP10 Angelico Press Titles

The 20th century's most influential theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar, once called for a "kneeling...

June 03, 2015

Why am I Still a Catholic? What Else is There?

The Patheos Catholic channel is doing a roundup of members defending their faith. This is...

June 02, 2015

Santorum to CHEMIST Pope Francis: “Leave Science to the Scientists!”

Here's hyper-Republican ideologue Rick Santorum on Pope Francis (and climate change) in a radio interview...

June 02, 2015

Does the Internet Have a Theology? A Review of Spadaro’s /Cybertheology/

Since you are reading this, I'd like to ask you a question: Do you have...

June 01, 2015

How to Make the Rosary More Inclusive in 3 Easy Steps

One of the great blessings of the rosary is its repetitiveness. This repetitiveness fosters the...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Pythagoras, Rocks, the Divine, Heidegger: This is Frozen Music

Music has power. And its greatest power is to create a pathway between the human...

May 26, 2015

Ireland & Legitimacy: An Ironic Correlation Between Clergy Abuse & Gay Marriage

They say that correlation does not imply causation. However, when you continually see a pattern develop...

May 22, 2015

René Girard: Is Christianity a Myth?

I spent an afternoon, and the better part of the evening, in the ER yesterday....

May 15, 2015

B.B. and Franz: Drinking To Two Kings Who Died Yesterday

Everybody probably knows by now about B.B. King's death. Fewer of you might be aware...

May 14, 2015

The Unholy Holiness of the Church Scandalizes Expectations of Purity

I feel responsible for purifying the minds of my readers from the defiling they experienced...

May 13, 2015

I Give You the Single Lamest & Funniest Theological Analogy. Ever.

Omnis analogia claudicat. Analogies limp. I think Aquinas said that. Religious language, especially the Catholic...

May 12, 2015

Seeking Silence: An Interview With Kevin M. Johnson

Kevin M. Johnson is founder and director of The Inner Room. Formed in the summer...

May 06, 2015

Just Another Atheist Jewish Catholic: An Interview With Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com and a consulting editor at the University of...

May 05, 2015

The Spell of Sensuous Silence: A TOP10 Book List of the Divine Sense

The interviews are coming. The interviews are coming! Shh . . . Thursday this week...

May 01, 2015

May Day — Dorothy Day: Political Radicalism & Liturgical Conservatism Feed off Each Other?

Despite popular prejudices I am no enemy of RadTrads. For example, I've come to appreciate...