What is a “Conservative” Catholic?
70 years ago, Frederick Wilhelmsen, the enigmatic philosopher and prolific Catholic writer, took to the pages of Commonweal to describe, in a symposium on the topic, “The…
70 years ago, Frederick Wilhelmsen, the enigmatic philosopher and prolific Catholic writer, took to the pages of Commonweal to describe, in a symposium on the topic, “The…
God, Philosophy, Universities. A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition. Alasdair MacIntyre. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. God, Philosophy, Universities traces the idea of…
Introduction Few in the Roman See have elicited such strong emotions and evaluations, both in his own era and in ours, regarding guidance of the Catholic church…
Michael Warren Davis is the author of The Reactionary Mind: Why ‘Conservative’ Isn’t Enough (Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2021). He is an editor for Sophia Institute Press…
In a time of secular ideology and positivist methodology, both Christopher Dawson and Eric Voegelin sought to recover the central role that religion and religious experience used…
We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition. John Courtney Murray, S.J. London: Sheed & Ward, 2005. Reading John Courtney Murray’s famous work, We…
Not Forgotten: Elegies for, and Reminiscences of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable. George Weigel. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2020. Eerily debuting almost…
The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission. George Weigel. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2020. In his 2015 biography of the late…
Good Intentions: A History of Catholic Voters’ Road from Roe to Trump. Steven P. Millies. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2018. There is a familiar English proverb, “The…
The Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernity. Paul Mariani. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2019. Ordinary Time: Poems. Paul Mariani. Eugene,…
Apart from the Council of Nicaea and the Council of Trent, the Second Vatican Council is arguably one of the most consequential ecumenical councils in the history…
Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so…
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…
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers. Geoffrey M. Vaughan, ed. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press: 2018 A Platonic philosopher and Socratic dialectician, Leo…
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers. Geoffrey M. Vaughan, ed. Catholic University of America Press, 2018. This is a most welcome, often profound inquiry into the…