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Articles by Dr. Thomas R. Rourke

About Dr. Thomas R. Rourke
Dr. Thomas R. Rourke was the winner of the American Political Science Association, Religion and Politics Section's Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best dissertation on a topic of Religion and Politics, upon receiving his doctorate from Texas Tech in 1994. He taught at FIU in Miami before moving to Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of five books and numerous articles, most recently: The Roots of Pope Francis's Social and Political Thought (Lanham and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).
Analysis

Eroticism and the Paris Olympics: A reflection in the light of Augusto Del Noce

August 5, 2024 Dr. Thomas R. Rourke 37

Eroticism is a fundamental feature of contemporary Western civilization. This is not clearly recognized by the majority and is thoroughly rejected by elite opinion.1 To attempt a serious discussion of the matter in the media […]

Analysis

Eroticism, Catholicism, and the Synod on Synodality

October 17, 2023 Dr. Thomas R. Rourke 39

The role that eroticism plays in today’s world and in the Church is not well understood, even by those who are concerned about it in the first place. While everyone knows that there has been […]

Analysis

The law-free zone of human sexuality and the Church today

March 26, 2023 Dr. Thomas R. Rourke 14

Examining the various components of the philosophy driving the proponents of the sexual revolution, as well as many Catholic progressives, a good summary of their various proposals is simply this: the entire realm of human […]

Essay

Secularization, Marxism, and the Enlightenment in Augusto Del Noce

July 22, 2021 Dr. Thomas R. Rourke 9

It is common today to hear people talk of secularization. It is particularly frequent in the discourse of people who see it as a problem. However, it is often the case that the term is […]

Essay

Atheism: The core of modern Western culture in the thought of Augusto del Noce

December 14, 2020 Dr. Thomas R. Rourke 26

Augusto del Noce (1910-89) is among the least well known of the brilliant political philosophers of the twentieth century. Having the misfortune of composing very dense academic writings in Italian, and generally considered “conservative,” Del […]

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