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December 2015

December 07, 2015

Was Vatican 1 Shockingly More Political Than Vatican 2?

Catholic History is stranger than you think. [Léger] spoke to me with excitement about his...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Profiles in Courage for a Refugee Risk-Averse America

We can best memorialize the passing of John F. Kennedy by collecting and emulating contemporary...

November 19, 2015

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Immigration Lawyer & Pastor Explains the Refugee Process

Scott Hicks has practiced immigration law since 1995 and volunteered for many years before then....

November 17, 2015

The Jonah Paradox: Is Humanity Living on Borrowed Time?

The Jonah Paradox, as conceived in Dupuy's The Mark of the Sacred, is the existential mission...

November 16, 2015

Why Have Civilians Become Primary Jihadist Targets?

There is nothing more heinous than the military targeting of innocent civilians like in the...

November 11, 2015

A New Springtime for Hitler?

On Veterans Day it behooves us to take another look at Timothy Snyder's Black Earth:...

November 03, 2015

The Intangible and Terrifying Spiritual Energy in Rocamadour

I'm getting close to finishing Michel Houellebecq's novel Submission. The critics immediately billed the book as...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

What if the Worldwide Jesuit Conspiracy is REAL?

There are plenty of unbalanced Catholic commentators on the Jesuit papacy. Their conspiracy theories, not...

October 16, 2015

Family Synod Conflict Is Not What You Think It Is . . .

In my worst moments I am temped to promulgate a #SynodSitIN by the power of...

October 14, 2015

Holy Fire & Brimstone! Archaeologists Unearth Sodom?

There are historically significant happenings you might be missing while you obsess about the fabulous...

October 06, 2015

What Do the Popes Truly Say About Socialism?

Like the man who slays a son in his father's presence is he who...

September 2015

September 20, 2015

The Blood of St. Januarius Boils Over Every September

Catholicism is a strange religion, perhaps the most worldly of them all, if you...

September 15, 2015

The Shadow Work of Destroying Death by Death

Work is killing you even when you're not working. Be cultured enough to give me...

September 11, 2015

The Waves of the Dead After 9/11

I do not feel competent to comment the 9 The events are both too near...

September 08, 2015

From Russia with Idols

I attempted to make something out of my nothing with my last post. It was...

September 02, 2015

New Historical Mists Shower Auschwitz with Hope

By now you might be past your knee-jerk reactions to the "showers" (misters, to be...

August 2015

August 14, 2015

No Theology, No Phenomenology of the Person?

Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English and professor of German at...

August 13, 2015

Threatening Naturalism’s Universal Authority

Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English and professor of German at...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

The Subjectivism of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Yesterday we placed the ancient philosophical analogue, not to be confused with an "equivalent," of...

July 29, 2015

The Mythical Origins of Science

One of the pillars of Enlightenment, scientific, and New Atheist (not to be confused with...

July 02, 2015

Is Christianity Secularization’s Best Hope?

Savage Memory is an equally disturbing and humanizing documentary portrait of Bronislaw Malinowski, the Polish...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

Zoltan Istvan 2016: Transhumanist Anti-Nature is Now Mainstream

If you think Zoloft was a HUGE breakthrough, then you haven't seen nothing yet....

June 19, 2015

The Most Sophiological Encyclical of All: Michael Martin on Laudato Si’

MICHAEL MARTIN is Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy at Marygrove College. He is the...

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 17, 2015

Playing Mad Libs with Laudato Si’ & the Politics of Identity

What if you took recent articles and replaced some words as you would in Mad...

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

Zizek: Straight Marriage is Daring When Ordained Transgression is the Norm!

After watching Linklater's Boyhood--a portrayal of divorce as boring, normal, quietly despairing, and not at...

May 2015

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 25, 2015

Does Anyone Still Remember the Einstein vs. Bergson Thrilla in Paris?

Let's take an askew view of Memorial Day by recalling a long forgotten piece of...

May 11, 2015

Where in the Continent is the Heart of Europe?

Obsessively discussing the demise of Europe is one of the favorite preoccupations of those on...