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October 2015

October 16, 2015

The long view

I am reading a fine collection of essays entitled Christianity and the Disciplines, which invites...

September 2015

September 08, 2015

Theologians as prophets

In his address to theologians in Argentina, Pope Francis said this: The theologian is a...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

Knowing takes work

From John Henry Newman: The mind ranges to and fro, and spreads out and advances...

May 07, 2015

Can Catholic universities end poverty?

Sister Amata Miller, I.H.M. is a professor of economics, director of the Myser Initiative...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Catholic universities and nonviolence

In light of the situation that has unfolded in Baltimore in recent days, we who...

April 24, 2015

Resisting the corporate imperative

Over at Commonweal, Jackson Lears, the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, has...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

Benedict and Francis: two models for the modern Catholic university

The challenge to Catholic higher education today is different from those of a generation or...

March 09, 2015

Exploding the myth of religious violence

William Cavanaugh’s 2009 book The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of...

December 2014

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)...

November 2014

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 21, 2014

Genes and Grace

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