Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Cosmos The In Lost

Home
Catholic

Catholic

Select a Category #WhyRemainCatholic Abortion Advent Anti-Catholicism Arts Atheism Beauty Benedict XVI Bible Book Review Catholic Cinema Comedy Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey Czesław Miłosz Dariusz Karłowicz Devil Easter Eastern Orthodoxy Economics Environment Family Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists Guest Post Hans Urs von Balthasar HHS Mandate History Imagination Interview Islam Jean-Luc Marion John Paul II Judaism Just War Lent Literature Little Sisters of the Poor Liturgy Martyrdom Music News Paganism Patristics Phenomenology Philosophy Pierre Hadot Poetry Poland Pop Culture Pope Francis Poverty Prayer Protestantism Rabelais Race Remi Brague Rene Girard Russia Sam Rocha Science & Religion SCOTUS Secularization Sexual Abuse Sexuality Silence Solidarity Stratford Caldecott Synod14 Terrorism Top 10 Uncategorized Walker Percy War Weakened Edition World War II World Youth Day WYD Krakow

Select a Month July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 6: The Catholic Demarcations of Wallace Stevens

[Read about Sartre, Camus, Warhol, Hitchcock, and Heidegger in the "Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists"...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

The Catholic Imagination and the Age of Czeslaw Milosz

Dissertation writing is a long process of accumulating knowledge, scrapping it, finding surprising connections,...

October 05, 2013

Apart From… What Has Christianity Ever Done for Us?

"And apart from being involved at the beginning of science, systems of government, philosophy,...

October 02, 2013

The Eviscerated Public Square

When you accumulate books there is always that one which you've meant to read for...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Is the Pope Protestant? (On the Propes)

I'd like to get back to the topic of ultramontanism I broached two days ago...

September 25, 2013

We Are All Ultramontanists Now: Catholic Infighting is a Sign of Strength!

When I hear people say Catholic means "Here Comes Everybody" I wonder if they really...

September 17, 2013

Hitchcock Didn’t Have a Deathbed Conversion (Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists #5)

I almost went to see Hitchcock's Vertigo in glorious 70mm last week. I admit I...

September 10, 2013

Richard Dawkins Puts Pedophilia in Perspective

Sex abuse is not one of the issues I want to write about, but sometimes...

September 05, 2013

Christianity Is Neither a Monotheism Nor a Religion of the Book (Remi Brague)

This blog began with a series of posts debunking some common myths about Christianity. There...

September 03, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 4: Heidegger’s Nietzschean Sideburns

Due to a late night bout of copy-editing I am not able to write the...

September 02, 2013

Forthcoming Books for the God-Obsessed

Today's post features a rundown of the new and noteworthy books that will be reviewed...

September 01, 2013

In memoriam Seamus Heaney

We pretty much have everything back in place here at Cosmos The In Lost. The...

August 2013

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...

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 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 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 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 09, 2013

The Problem of the Good (not Evil) or: On Rabelaisian Catholicism

The Charles Ramsey story went from viral to vile very quickly. The rescuer of three...

June 05, 2013

American Literary Slugfest: Papist Upstarts vs. Established Prots

In his essay "Religion and Literature" T.S. Eliot makes a most reasonable critical observation, especially...

June 03, 2013

Latour: Rejoicing – Or the Torments of Religious Speech

It is noteworthy whenever the French philosopher of science Bruno Latour (author of We Have...