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A Map of Dante’s Inferno in Three Touchstones
Introduction and a Map of the Inferno “It is now customary to speak of Dante as the Catholic poet, even …
Is the Brain Dead Person Really Dead?
Pope Francis’s monthly intention for March is “A Christian Response to Bioethical Challenges” and the question of “brain death” continues …
God Making for Tragedy
Why Would Anyone Want God to Make for Tragedy? It may not seem like much for an advertisement for God …
The Fundamental Mistake Plaguing Both Sides of the Cosmological Argument
In what has become a famous address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in November 1951, Pope Pius XII claimed …
Catherine of Siena’s Medicinal Shaming of the Church
At the edge of the Castel Sant’Angelo near an entrance to the public park that at one time comprised the …
A Christian Aesthetic of Human Dignity
There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and said, “Teacher, what must I do …
Rereading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn With Catholic Eyes
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) is a novel that evokes feeling in readers by the mere mention of …
A Thomistic Approach to Structural Racism
Earlier, I suggested how we can situate racism generally within a Thomistic account of evil, and sketched a Thomistic approach …
The Soul in Trauma
In August of 2013, I began working with survivors and their families impacted by the Boston Marathon Bombing. Four months …