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August 2015

August 19, 2015

Why They Hate Pro-Lifers So

The pro-life argument is overpoweringly clear to me. But in argument against supporters of legalized...

August 12, 2015

On Loving Karen

My dear Karen died of a hard-fought cancer on August 12, 2009. I wrote the...

August 05, 2015

Ave Maria at the Beach

For the last three summers, I have been very lucky to hire students from Ave...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

Welcome to America, Pope Francis!

The first pope to visit the United States was Paul VI in October 1965, just...

July 22, 2015

Pope Francis Asked for Help on Economics

On the plane from Paraguay last week, Pope Francis seemed to ask for dialogue with...

July 15, 2015

Papal Humility

On his way from Paraguay back to Rome recently, Pope Francis showed signs of personal...

July 08, 2015

Blue Environmentalism – Part Three

Henry Adams saw that science and technology were the masculine “Dynamo” of our progress –...

July 01, 2015

Blue Environmentalism – Part Two

“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made” (Ps 33:6). This tells us...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

Blue Environmentalism – Part One

In view of the new encyclical of Pope Francis, I would like to revisit the...

June 17, 2015

Millennia of Experience Matter

One of the things I like best about the Catholic intellectual tradition is that, having...

June 10, 2015

Under the Golden Rule

EMILY: The Golden Rule, “Treat others as you wish to be treated” or “Treat thy...

June 03, 2015

The Fragility of Liberty – Part Three

Whether capitalism or socialism is the better system for dramatically reducing poverty was a well-settled...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

For Trinity Sunday – A Parable

A bright and rather contemplative student of mine got herself into a perplexity recently. She...

May 20, 2015

The Fragility of Liberty – Part Two

On Libertarianism One frequently reads in Catholic media judgments like The Catholic faith and libertarianism...

May 13, 2015

The Fragility of Liberty – Part One

On Disparate Meanings of “Liberty” I have long noticed a widespread distaste for the phrase...

May 06, 2015

Turnabout: Questions for Atheists

In my experience, atheists usually assume that atheism (or its approximations) is the only reasonable...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

To Ave Maria’s Class of 2015

Last Sunday, April 26th, Ave Maria University’s Shakespeare troupe completed its 12-performance run of Midsummer...

April 22, 2015

Emily’s Next Question

EMILY: Some people read Jesus’ comment “to turn the other cheek” to mean that people...

April 15, 2015

An International Hero, An International Treasure

Coming down to earth in Washington, DC, is being hit on a regular basis with...

April 01, 2015

A Third Question from Emily

EMILY: Some churches still sing Gregorian chant and perform the entire Mass in Latin, while...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

The Dark Night of the Soul

Yesterday evening I delivered the Newman Lecture at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences in...

March 24, 2015

The Greatest of All Inequalities

In the United States today, an immense amount of research shows that the greatest of...

March 20, 2015

Pope Francis and the Three-sided System

Pope Francis seems to be a subject of unending fascination. Some of my intellectual evangelical...

March 17, 2015

The Splendor of Being

I’ve just returned from a wonderful visit at Walsh University in North Canton, OH, where...

March 13, 2015

The Green Worm of Envy

Seventy-one percent of Americans told pollsters two things last week: first, that the middle class...

March 10, 2015

Beauty and Subjectivity

Our tradition likes to say, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Here’s how...

March 06, 2015

The Ballad of Richard John – A Reworking and Shameless Borrowing of Chesterton’s “Lepanto”

In celebration of the publication of the new biography of Father Richard John Neuhaus by...

March 03, 2015

Emily’s Second Question – Part Two

Picking up again, we recall Emily’s question about the seemingly different messages of the two...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Why We Went into Iraq and Should Have Stayed There – Part Two

The U.S. made huge mistakes after launching troops into Iraq in 2003. But the hugest...

February 24, 2015

Why We Went into Iraq and Should Have Stayed There — Part One

More than once in the last couple of years others have continued criticism and even...

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