Whither Catholic Education?
The Case for Catholic Education: Why Parents, Teachers, and Politicians Should Reclaim the Principles of Catholic Pedagogy. Ryan N. S. Topping. Kettering, OH: Angelico Press, 2015. …
Beyond Radical Secularism: How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge
Beyond Radical Secularism: How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge. Pierre Manent. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2016. I have…
Christianity’s Decisive Difference
A Letter to Alfred Schütz January 1, 1953 My dear friend, How could I begin the New Year better than with a reply to your kind, so…
A Catholic Strauss: A Reply to James Stoner’s “The Catholic Moment in the Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss”
It feels a little strange to raise the question of Leo Strauss’s relationship to Catholicism when his relationship to Judaism has scarcely been clarified. If we could…
The Catholic Moment in the Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss
When I first mentioned my plan to speak on the topic of this essay a few years back, I was greeted with guffaws, or at least the…
Vatican II: A Liturgical Restoration
True Reform: Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium. Massimo Faggioli. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2012. Eric Voegelin took at best a passing interest in institutional Catholicism. …
How Far May the Bishops Go?
Church, State, and Society: An Introduction to Catholic Social Doctrines. Brian Benestad. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2011. With this book, Professor Benestad makes…
Voegelin at Notre Dame
The South Dinning Hall JOHN ROOS: We would often watch out for Voegelin on campus. There was a professor named Anton-Hermann Chroust, a real character. He was…
The Intrinsic Incoherence of the Secular University
God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of Catholic Philosophical Tradition. Alasdair MacIntyre. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. In Ex Corde Ecclesiae John Paul II reiterated…
Reflections on Fides et Ratio
On this occasion we will consider the Encyclical Letter of John Paul II, Faith and Reason (Fides et ratio), which he released on September 15th, 1998. We…