A cynic like myself might be tempted to ascribe the current emphasis on evangelization in the Church to an increased …
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Do We Love Creation Like God Does?
Are you in love with God’s creation? Do you love creation with the same love with which God loves it? …
We Are Family: On Fraternal Liberalism
In Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI makes a surprising claim about integral human development: “The development of peoples depends, …
Pascalian Mockery as Love of Enemy
Consider a now-familiar tableau: a respected and accomplished academic publicly defends a view which a few years before would have …
Canon 916 and the Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church
Recently the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops began a process known as a National Eucharistic Revival: “The Bishops of …
An Archaeology of the Liberal Episteme
Liberalism is generally thought to be first and foremost a political theory. In a specifically historical sense this is correct. …
Navigating Between Reactionary Traditionalism and Naïve Modernism
Division is an all-pervasive affliction in the contemporary world. In a country like the United States we are often tempted to …
A Map of Dante’s Paradiso in Three Touchstones
In the first two parts of this series, I provided brief maps of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio, maps each composed …
The Great Resignation as a Sign of the Times
Everybody knows somebody who quit their job in the past year. In 2021, over 47 million American workers voluntarily left …
Why We Are Restless
I recently completed my tenth year of teaching at a small Christian liberal arts college in the Midwest. It has …