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May 2012

May 04, 2012

What the Church Offers to Grieving Players of “Mass Effect 3”

Internet fora have been burning hot processing posts expressing shock and anger at a seemingly...

April 2012

April 20, 2012

Humans, Faith and Attack Drones

Glenn Greenwald of Salon wrote a piece concerning the issue of the increasing trend of...

April 13, 2012

The Sacred Making the Secular More Secular

Many of the secular liberal set often decry the involvement of religious actors in fear...

April 03, 2012

The Abolition of Man According to Henri de Lubac

In The Drama of Atheist Humanism, the French Jesuit Henri de Lubac remarked that It...

March 2012

March 23, 2012

Sertillanges on the Intellectual Vocation

The Dominican intellectual Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges wrote in the 1920s a book entitled The Intellectual...

March 02, 2012

Communication, Form, and Place

Steve Martin once said that you cannot play a sad song on a banjo, indicating...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Are We Too Human?

Philosophers in the tradition of Nietzsche will echo his lament that "we are human, all...

January 2012

January 20, 2012

Does Big Business Oppose the State?

The most recent corporate internet protests (which implicated or was supported by the likes of...

January 10, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of Capitalism

Adrian Pabst, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Kent has edited a book in...

December 2011

December 09, 2011

The Biopolitics of Chest Hair

The centrefold of the 24 November 2011 edition of Sydney's mX tabloid featured an assortment...

December 02, 2011

Celebrity: What Kylie and Universities Have in Common?

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently reported on Anglia Ruskin University's decision to grant an honorary...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

The Vatican and Famine: an Interview with Athanasius McVay

Ukrainians are currently commemorating the anniversary of what is known as the Holodomor, a famine...

November 26, 2011

Getting Used to Owning Again

Distributism, about which Campion College recently hosted a day conference, is based on the notion...

November 18, 2011

Does Facebook Cause Divorce?

Patrick Deneen of the Front Porch Republic has written a highly instructive piece in response...

August 2011

August 03, 2011

Evaluation on a Comedian’s Spiritual Journey on the ABC: Implications for Evangelisation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently began a series on the exploration of faith, spearheaded by...

July 2011

July 17, 2011

Monty Python and Philosophy: Need One Say More…?

The Popular Culture and Philosophy series of books look at the philosophical undercurrents in many...

June 2011

June 19, 2011

Consumerism and Christianity: An Interview with William Cavanaugh

The protestant website 100Huntley.com recently did a a short but highly informative interview with the...

May 2011

May 15, 2011

The Clock, Secular Culture and the Noontime Demon

An earlier post spoke of the importance of the constructed nature of how we in...

May 08, 2011

St. Therese, Ecclesial Politics and the Redemption of Micropractice

St. Therese of Liseux was a Carmelite nun who died in 1897 at the young...

October 2009

October 28, 2009

Ecclesial Politics and the Redemption of Time

...to a time when truth exists, to a time when thought is free...from the age...

February 2008

February 17, 2008

The Postmodern Lent: Ever Ancient, Ever New

The concluding prayers of the Divine Office for the second Monday of Lent read that...

December 2007

December 15, 2007

Practices and the Conversion of the Social Imaginary: On Marriage

Below is an excerpt from the American Deacon Keith Fournier of Catholic Online. The article,...

October 2007

October 25, 2007

James K A Smith, Postmodernism and Radical Orthodoxy

A October 24 2007 post of the the Church and Postmodern Culture blog featured an...

September 2007

September 03, 2007

Can a Catholic reader be a convert to the writings of a Calvinist, and come...