We Are Not Our Own: Childhood in a Technological Age
Liberal culture’s anti-child practices are bound up with a logic of childlessness most basically defined in terms of a forgetfulness of being and its Origin and expressed…
Trinity, Creation, and The Order of Intelligence in the Modern Academy
The Second Vatican Council insists that “all Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection…
Ecology in Light of Integral Human Development
Integral human development sets the context within which alone an adequate approach to ecology can be conceived. In what follows, I will focus on the key principles…
The Given as Gift
"If the God of the Bible is creator of the universe, then it is not possible to understand fully or even appropriately the processes of nature without…
Mercy as a Reality Illuminated by Reason
In his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii gaudium [EG], Pope Francis insists that we need to anchor our approach to the Church’s missionary task in the Incarnate Word as…
Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity
Catholics are generally aware that the background preparations for what was to become the Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom emphasized that truth alone had rights, and that…
The Embodied Person as Gift
The body in its physical structure as such bears a vision of reality: it is an anticipatory sign, and already an expression, of the order of love…