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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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 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…
For the orthodox Christian, is doing one’s public duty more or less reducible to voting for the most socially conservative Republican on the ballot—and then shutting up…
Papal writings concerning democracy and economics have occasioned much confusion and debate in the period following the close of the Second Vatican Council, especially since the ascension…
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers. Geoffrey M. Vaughan, ed. Washington D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2018. “Strauss embraced classical philosophy over religious faith, not as a…
The mystery of the liturgy coincides totally with the mystery of operativity - Giorgio Agamben In my opinion, Giorgio Agamben is the most important contemporary European…
Pope Francis, in his wise reflections on holiness in Gaudete et Exsultate (“Rejoice and Be Glad”), discusses Gnosticism and Pelagianism as “two subtle enemies of holiness.” The…
In the past essays I have spoken about one of the obstacles that today’s multiversity confronts: the creation of the conditions of genuine learning. The vast creation…
Professor Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II, was first of all a philosopher, a pre-eminent one, on par with any and all great philosophers in…
The December 2016 issue of Quadrant includes my reflection on Pope Francis’s contribution to Catholic social and political reflection. I write as both a Catholic and a…
For more than a century and a half, the specter of secularization has haunted the West. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Max Weber famously spoke…