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December 2017

December 22, 2017

Dumping Christ for the ‘Crisis’

Crises are useful gimmicks, whether it is economic meltdowns, climate change, immigration, cabinet reshuffles, sex...

December 08, 2017

The Vernacular of Pornography Part I: The Metaphysics of Porn

Pornography is everywhere. By this, I do not simply mean that we are awash with...

November 2017

November 01, 2017

Repost: The Politics of All Saints Day

Nota Bene: This is a repost of a piece published 5 years ago today , on...

October 2017

October 26, 2017

From the Vault: Divine Wedgie Podcasts on Soundcloud

It has been busy at the office, and so I have been unable to to...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

From the Vault: the Divine Wedgie Podcast Series

If you have been following the evolution of the Divine Wedgie over time, first up, a...

August 2017

August 18, 2017

Singing Psalms With Angels and Demons

There comes a point for those who do the Office of Readings where one has...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

Tracey Rowland on Zombie Jesus

The John Paul II Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Tracey...

May 2017

May 02, 2017

God and Cigarettes

Five years ago, in an attempt to reduce smoking and its associated health costs, the...

February 2017

February 07, 2017

Friendship, Politics & Justice

We are pleased to feature a guest-post this week by Dr. Timothy J. Furry, who...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Let My Porkchop Go: Against the Recruitment of Everything

...from a hungry massgoer... One Sunday after Mass, I went to the pub to get...

December 2016

December 16, 2016

Pontifical Sass: More Little Surprises from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

This is a follow up from a post last week, showing some of the little...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Podcast: On the Catholicism of “Daredevil”

Readers may be aware that, periodically, The Divine Wedgie gets together with lecturers at Campion College Australia...

November 15, 2016

Things Themselves: Phenomenology After Trump

Or WWJD, as in "What Would Jean (Baudrillard) Do?" More on this later, but first,...

October 2016

October 04, 2016

Desire & Idolatry: After Debating

Elections come, elections go, but the media stands firm forever... Whilst another electoral debate has...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

Catfishing, the Synthetic Self & Confession

Readers of the Catholic blogosphere would by now be acquainted with Chase Padusniak (of Jappers...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Guestpost by Kamila Soh: When Pokévalues Catch our Attention

This is a guest contribution by Kamila Soh, who holds a Masters in Architecture from...

July 2016

July 08, 2016

Free Symposium: Economy, Idolatry and Secularisation with William T. Cavanaugh (11th July)

Readers in the Sydney area might be interested to know that the University of Notre...

July 05, 2016

Selfies, Cake & Death

The Guardian's Rana Dasgupta recently wrote a piece concerning the now common practice of posting...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

Temptations of the “Everybody”

Nota Bene: Due to the impending porting of The Divine Wedgie to the Patheos Catholic...

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,...

May 2015

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...

January 2015

January 12, 2015

What Kierkegaard Knew About Charlie Hebdo

In an important guest post on Discourses on Liberty, Charles Taylor recalls a work...

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...

March 2013

March 14, 2013

Francis…What’s to a Name?

The Roman Catholic Church has elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires to be its...

November 2012

November 16, 2012

The Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission & the Redefining of Religious Liberty

This week, the Australian government announced the establishment of a Royal Commission into institutional child...

November 06, 2012

Catholic Social Teaching & Political Revival

Matthew Taylor of the BBC's Radio 4 has today provided a nuanced analysis of a...

November 01, 2012

Refugees and the Politics of All Saints Day

The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday reported on the Australian government's proposal to excise all of...

September 2012

September 13, 2012

How Earthly was My City? A Tale of Two Augustines

The 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 11th September 2001 and the killing of...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Children: The Public Dimension of Marriage

Gregory of Nyssa, one of the Fathers of the ancient church, once described marriage as...

March 2012

March 12, 2012

A Response to Newt Gingrich from the Front Porch: A Biography of Saul Alinsky

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich made a remark as part of his campaign that "the...