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June 2016

June 28, 2016

Temptations of the “Everybody”

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

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...

April 2016

April 17, 2016

Catholic Social Dispatches

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

November 2015

November 22, 2015

Fascism, Simulation & Christ the King

In 1925, Pope Pius XI instituted the solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Climate and Family: A Question of Covenant

Pope Francis has left North America to return to Rome, after a trip that brought...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

The Magna Carta After 800 Years: A Day Conference (28 Nov, Sydney)

The Centre for the Study of Western Tradition at Campion College recently announced that...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Laudato Si, Gay Marriage and the Whitered State

The release of Pope Francis' new encyclical has elicited a higher than usual volume...

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...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Crunchy-Conservatism, Migrants & Pope Francis

"Crunchy-conservatives" in the United States have started organising against the neoliberal and faux-conservative...

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...

December 2014

December 11, 2014

Theology of the Body & the Torture Report

In an old post, mention was made of the moral exhortations that abound within our...

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...

November 14, 2014

Conservative Zombies & Other Readings

A lot of highly informative resources have come out on newsfeeds in recent weeks, so...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

Australian Launch: Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ

Readers in the Sydney area might be interested to know that there will be an...

August 2014

August 09, 2014

Prayer as Political Theory

The political science journal "Politics, Religion & Ideology" has kindly provided an advanced online copy...

May 2014

May 01, 2014

Ecumenism, Abortion and Consumerism: Texts Available Online

The good folk at Wipf and Stock have made available a sample chapter of Justice,...

April 2014

April 03, 2014

Free Panel Presentation: An Augustinian Theology of Migrant Identity

Readers in the Chicago area might be interested in a free event next week,...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Book Launch: Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ

Readers in Chicago might be interested to know that Justice, Unity and the Hidden Christ:...

January 2014

January 17, 2014

Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ: New Book by Matthew Tan

The theological publishing house Wipf & Stock has released the first book by the Divine...

November 2013

November 07, 2013

Slavoj Zizek, the Christian Revolution & So On…

The Slovenian marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek has made a reputation for himself as the "Elvis...

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...

October 03, 2013

“St Evagrius of Pontus and Redeeming Time in Postmodernity” on The Other Journal

An essay by the Divine Wedgie's Matthew Tan was published on the American postmodern theological...

September 2013

September 05, 2013

The Borders of the Eucharist

Australia goes to the polls this week, and like many countries in the West, the...

August 2013

August 03, 2013

Why Plato Helps Christians in the Real World

Christians today often proudly declare their love for Aristotle. Catholics and a number of Protestants...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Christians and Crises

Crises are politically useful gimmicks. Whether it is economic meltdowns, asylum seekers, cabinet reshuffles, sex...

July 18, 2013

Monasteries: “In” But Not “From”

James KA Smith has on his blog Fors Clavigera provided with a succinct yet incisive...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

Upcoming Event: Religious Vilification & Augustine’s Politics of Psalmody (29th May)

Campion College's political theology project, the Seminars in Political and Religious Life series, resume with...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Good Friday & the Prevailing Order (Repost)

A line in the Evening Liturgy of the Hours for Tuesday of Holy Week reminds...