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March 2020

March 31, 2020

Beauty in a Pandemic?: A Queer Discovery

In a matter of weeks, our worlds have been upended and reforged. Because of the...

March 22, 2020

The Pope, Paneloux, and The Plague: Priesthood and the Coronavirus

"Do you believe in God, doctor?" "No, but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling...

March 06, 2020

Bad Bunny’s YHLQMDLG: the Downside of Forgetting Your Problems

Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny, took the risk once again of...

February 2020

February 13, 2020

Encountering our Wounds: Looking at Race and Reality with James Baldwin

By Guest Contributor Dr. Jaisy Joseph Come and see. Fr. Luigi Giussani tells us that Christ’s...

September 2019

September 21, 2019

A Revolution of Neighborliness: An Interview with DL Mayfield

I met Danielle (DL) Mayfield last year when she spoke on a panel about serving...

September 04, 2019

Did Harry Potter Make Me a Witch?

So since people are up in arms over this Harry Potter debacle...and seeing as I'm...

August 2019

August 05, 2019

Suicide, the Occult, and the Next Generation: Optimistic Nihilism in Pop Music Pt. 3

I finished the last post in this series with an open question. The existential conundrum...

August 02, 2019

The Inconvenience of Complacency: Optimistic Nihilism in Pop Music Pt. 2

In the previous article in this series, I pointed out the tension between Bad Bunny’s...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

Bad Bunny’s “New Religion”: Optimistic Nihilism in Pop Music Pt. 1

The music of Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, popularly known as Bad Bunny, features catchy trap...

July 16, 2019

Piety at the Parish: I’m at Ethika Politika

I was inspired after reading Chris Arnade's piece on "Back Row America" in First Things to...

July 08, 2019

Disenchanted Masculinity in a Secular Age

“Christmas was the only time I could be myself…with all the fun colors and the...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

Pre-Pride Mass with Fr. Martin

The Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in midtown Manhattan will hold a “Pre-Pride Mass”...

June 19, 2019

In Memoriam: John Aroutiounian

Whenever I broach the topic of death with my mother, she never fails to remind...

June 04, 2019

The Hustle and Difference Feminism

“Why is it that women are more suited to the con than men?” “Because no...

March 2019

March 24, 2019

The Mundanity of Terror: My take on the NZ shooting livestream

Several of my students came into my classroom last Friday to ask me if I...

March 18, 2019

Learning from the Christchurch Mosque Shootings

The news that 49 people were shot and killed at two different mosques in New...

January 2019

January 22, 2019

“Blessed is the fruit of your wounds”: Abortion and the Risk of Accompaniment

This week marks the anniversary of “Roe v. Wade,” the historic supreme court case that...

October 2018

October 21, 2018

Let Me Feel the Lack: A meditation on Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line

by guest contributor Patrick Tomassi At the beginning of Terrence Malick’s epic World War II...

August 2018

August 13, 2018

“The customer is the arbiter of moral righteousness”: The woes of not having customer service in Europe

This is the fourth article in a series entitled “My Mediterranean Adventures” As I sip the...

August 06, 2018

“Touch my body, bro”: Sex, Death, and the Male Body

This is the third article in a series entitled "My Mediterranean Adventures" I spent my...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

Why don’t they offer sacrifices in the Parthenon anymore?: On Pagan and Christians Ideals of Beauty and Grandeur

This is the second article in a series entitled “My Mediterranean Adventures” I approached my third...

July 26, 2018

The Secular vs The Sacramental: My Mediterranean Adventures

I spent the last 4 weeks gallivanting about the Mediterranean and England. Mediterranean blood flows...

July 04, 2018

Finding Stability in a Liquid Society: Monks in Newark, York, and Beyond

When most people today think of a monastery, they envision a romantic, bordering on ethereal...

June 2018

June 11, 2018

City Summers: A Gift and a Curse

The hot summer months may be one of the least convenient times of year to...

April 2018

April 06, 2018

Unity at the Crossroads: a Good Friday Reflection

Originally published at Traces Online On Good Friday, Christians across the world commemorate Jesus’ journey...

March 2018

March 07, 2018

God on Trial: The Demand for Meaning in Tragedies

This post is in memory of one of my former students who died in a...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

“Shi*ty are the Poor”

Every other month I lead a group of high school students down to a local...

January 25, 2018

Father Abraham: Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives

(L-R) Professor of Law Joseph Weiler, moderator John McCarthy, dean of the School of Philosophy...

January 25, 2018

MLK’s Dream Brought to Life at the New York Encounter

Pianist Andrea Domenici (left) and guitarist Philip Faconti (right) accompany Grammy-nominated Jonathan Hoard in gospel...

January 19, 2018

Mark Lilla: “We are going to share a destiny, whether we like it or not”

By Guest Contributor, Elena Neuzil The New York Encounter is an annual three-day public cultural event...

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