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July 2016

July 18, 2016

Freedom, Autonomy and Vice

A lunchroom discussion on suggestions for suitable relaxing reading to bring along on a Mediterranean...

July 13, 2016

Coming Soon: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

Cascade Books, the imprint of Wipf and Stock, will soon send to print the manuscript...

June 2016

June 05, 2016

Homesickness for Alien Places

There are times when, after coming back from a sojourn overseas, we start pining for...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Simulations & Spouses

The popular philsophical writer Alain de Botton recently published an article in the New York...

May 23, 2016

Post-Materialism, Sacramentality & Marketing

A friend on social media once wondered out loud why a big telecommunications company would...

May 15, 2016

Discerning Before Utopia

This post was spurred on by two things, a class given on discernment at Campion...

May 07, 2016

Prayer After “The World Spins Madly On”

Almighty God, You moved your servant to listen to "The World Spins Madly On" by...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Meaty Souls & the Death of Prince

People die everyday, sometimes in great numbers at a single time, from wars, genocides,...

April 17, 2016

Catholic Social Dispatches

With all the intense hypervigilence and dissection of the recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Letitia,...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

New Essay: Sarah Coakley and the Prayers of the Digital Body of Christ

Janice McCrandal, lecturer in theology at Trinity Theological College in Brisbane, has edited a new...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

When the Possible is Life and the Actual is Death

In The Coming of the Body, Herve Juvin spoke of the production of the endless...

May 21, 2015

Doctrine Divides While Justice Unites?: An Interview with Catholic News Agency

Justice, Unity and the Hidden Christ, written by the Divine Wedgie's blogger at large, was recently...

May 05, 2015

Take Me With You: A Theology of Running Away

Readers may remember an old post from 2012 where suggestions were made on the construction...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Nostalgia & Domination

Events, ages, places or people disappear from our lives all the time. More often...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

Advent and the Comings of Christ

Amidst the onslaught of tinsel, Christmas sales, exhortations by ostensibly Christian politicians to spend more...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

The Rosary & Feminism

In the preamble of his apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, St. John Paul II...

November 21, 2014

Souls in Space

A previous post on the longing for spaces once traversed elicited a higher-than-usual response...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

The Third Schism

Robin Parry, an editor in the theological publishing house, Wipf & Stock, and Andrew G....

May 2014

May 22, 2014

Feedback on “Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ”

Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ appears to be having an impact, with sales recorded...

May 09, 2014

The State as Confessor: a View from George Orwell

In his Torture and Eucharist, William Cavanaugh spoke of the modern nation state as a...

April 2014

April 11, 2014

Sin, Multiplicity and Relation

The French Jesuit, Henri de Lubac, provided a fascinating overview of the patristic link between...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

The Church & Bridging Cultures: Sr. Cristina & The Voice

By now, a number of readers would be familiar with the latest viral...

March 14, 2014

Outrageous Fortunes and Comforting Providence

There are good days. And there are bad days. And then there are days where...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

A Recipe Against Overspirituality

A recent conference on Pope Francis was held in downtown Chicago entitled New World Pope,...

February 06, 2014

“Theology, Philosophy & the Mass” Part I: Epistemology

The Sydney-based internet radio station Cradio has this week released a podcast of the first...

January 2014

January 24, 2014

Salvation & Other People

"Your Personal Lord and Saviour". It is a phrase bandied about by street...

January 03, 2014

Crying and the Life of the World to Come

Another year has passed, and with that comes the catharsis of committing yet another...

December 2013

December 03, 2013

The Church and Popular Culture: DePaul Winter Course Offering

The Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University is inviting enrollment into one of its...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

What the Church Learns from Graffiti

The street artist Banksy, who made a name for himself by making ironic stencils on...

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Hope & the Assumption of Mary

The Second Reading in the Roman Catholic Mass for the Feast of the Assumption of...