As I listen to the post-Dobbs public discourse about abortion and women’s health, I am reminded of the three years …
Benedict XVI and the Cosmic Covenant
After the widespread attention that Pope Francis’s encyclical on care for creation has garnered over the past several years,the …
Hard Universalism, Grace, and Creaturely Freedom
Alvin Plantinga is famous for developing a “free will” defense of moral evil which argued that God could have a …
Langston Hughes: My America
This is my land, America. Naturally, I love it—it is home—and I am vitally concerned about its mores, its democracy, …
The Authority of Popes (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 6)
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Time after time, throughout the earliest ecumenical councils, Rome’s position won out, even though Rome …
A Medicinal Warning for My Pro-Life Friends
For nearly five decades, overturning Roe v. Wade was the Holy Grail of the pro-life movement. The midterm elections, however, …
In the Swarm: The Liturgy and Liquid Identity
Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of « liquid modernity » is one of my recurring topics of exploration. To put it briefly, our age prizes flexibility …
Eschatology: Hell, Purgatory, Heaven
I. HELL No quibbling helps here: the idea of eternal damnation, which had taken ever clearer shape in the Judaism …
In Memoriam: Benedict XVI (1927–2022)
His room in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican is now empty, though its arrangement still suggests him. The …
The Infallible Authority of Bishops
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