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January 2015

January 14, 2015

An originating Jesuit mission at the university

Robert John Araujo, S.J., the John Courtney Murray, S.J. Professor of Law at Loyola University...

January 05, 2015

The Atlantic: a new brand of Jesuit university?

Autumn Jones writes a helpful piece in The Atlantic (12/30/14) titled "The New Brand of...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Free speech at Marquette

Eugene Volokh, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, wrote in...

December 09, 2014

Catholic theologians on racial justice

Yesterday, my colleague Tobias Winright, a former corrections and police officer and now the Hubert Mäder...

December 08, 2014

Alice McDermott is astonished by love

Acclaimed novelist Alice McDermott, author of such novels as Someone (2013), After This (2006)...

December 05, 2014

The Case for Christian Humanism

The Theos Think Tank has released a lucid essay on Christian humanism in an effort to...

December 02, 2014

Newman’s vision

Joe Humphreys at the Irish Times asks whether John Henry Newman's vision for Catholic universities...

November 2014

November 14, 2014

The UCA Martyrs

Sunday November 16 marks the 25th anniversary of the murder of six Jesuits, their housekeeper,...

November 13, 2014

Bishops’ accreditation?

Over at Aleteia, Randall B. Smith considers the college accreditation process, and argues that bishops could...

November 05, 2014

The spirituality of the question

What drives the life of the intellect is something that itself is not intellectual: namely,...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Theology Needs Science (and vice versa)

Theology needs science. So writes William C. Mattison, a moral theologian at the Catholic University...

October 23, 2014

Science and Catholic universities

John D. Cunningham, S.J., a particle physicist at Loyola University Chicago, writes in the current...

October 22, 2014

Patricia McGuire, Trinity Washington University

America Magazine is doing interviews of the presidents of three Washington, D.C. area Catholic universities....

October 21, 2014

Genes and Grace

Geneticist Marc A.T. Muskavitch, a professor of biology at Boston College, has authored a thought-provoking article...

October 17, 2014

Catholic intellectual tradition

Below are excerpts from a paper I published in 2009 in the journal Logos: A Journal...

October 15, 2014

Coming out as Christian in the Academy

Margery Eagan writes in Crux about professors who must hide their Christian faith amidst lingering prejudice in...

October 09, 2014

God, knowledge, and the university

Stephen Hawking’s recent pronouncement that there is no God was unsurprising, given his past considerations...

October 02, 2014

“The Idea of a Catholic College” conference reflections

My friend and colleague Jason King has written a cogent reflection on the Catholic Moral...

October 01, 2014

The theology of the Mercy university

I'm energized by my attendance at the recent Conference of Mercy Higher Education gathering, which...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Education for mercy

In this era of skyrocketing costs of higher education, it is important to remind ourselves of...

September 19, 2014

The cor curriculum

My university, Boston College, has developed an insightful new document describing what we hold dear...

September 18, 2014

Of science and other humanities

*Update: see the bottom of this page. One of the dreadful dead-ends of the modern...

September 16, 2014

Why tolerance is not a virtue at Catholic universities

Theologian Aurelie Hagstrom writes in Integritas: I think it is vitally important to remember that...

September 12, 2014

Suppressing religious free speech

The California State university system has derecognized InterVarsity, a Christian organization, on its 23 campuses. HuffPo: California...

September 09, 2014

Education of the soul

David Brooks' piece on the state of universities today is spot-on, if perhaps (at least...

September 08, 2014

College and citizenship

What's the value of a college degree? College grads have an average debt burden of $33,000...

September 04, 2014

Excarnation and teaching

My Boston College colleague Richard Kearney has written a thoughtful piece in the New York...

September 03, 2014

The discerning university

I would assert quite simply that the final test of the civilizing process that is...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Bishops, presidents reviewing Ex Corde Ecclesiae

The US Bishops are convening a group of bishops and Catholic college presidents to review...

August 25, 2014

Welcome to the Capstone

Let me share with you a taste of what gets me excited about my work...

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