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Incarnate Transcendence in an Age of Transhumanist Counterfeits

March 22, 2026 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 5

It’s no secret that we are inhabiting a moment in which digitalization is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace. Day by day, screens, algorithms, and infrastructures of virtual reality are becoming the dominant frame […]

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Pope Leo, the Joshua Tree, and the Paschal Mystery

February 28, 2026 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 9

I recently returned from delivering a lecture at the annual Los Angeles religious education congress and, as is my custom when possible, turned it into a “bring-a-kid-to-work” adventure. This time, my middle-school daughter and I […]

Pope Benedict XVI uses a cane as he arrives for an audience with priests of the Diocese of Rome in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Feb. 14. (CNS photo/Paul Haring; Feb. 14
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What Benedict XVI taught us about Israel—and why it matters now

December 6, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 79

When devout Catholic young people start approaching you, troubled by the possibility that God has abandoned the Jews and that they somehow stand behind our social ills, it becomes clear that something has gone deeply […]

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On the surprising sanity of Bill Gates on climate change…

November 16, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 75

I didn’t see this coming. I could hardly believe the news article that came across my desk the other day: none other than Bill Gates was urging climate advocates to rethink their priorities and rhetoric […]

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Uncovering the papal lessons hidden beneath the ice

October 9, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 37

As the internet erupted over Pope Leo’s blessing of a 20,000-year-old block of melting Greenland ice, I remained happily oblivious to the firestorm while delivering some lectures on creation in the Bay Area. After completing my […]

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Reflections on Pope Leo XIV’s Inaugural Message on Creation

August 28, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 18

In my last column, I reflected on Pope Leo XIV’s approval of a new liturgical formulary, the Mass for the Care of Creation, highlighting the rich opportunity it affords to renew the Church’s liturgical prayer […]

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Leo XIV and the Liturgical Renewal of Creation

July 8, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 27

Still basking in the joy of having a successor of St. Peter who hails from the land of my birth (though admittedly still a bit disappointed that he’s not a Cubs fan), I, like many, […]

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Cultivating the Soul: Gardening as Catechesis

June 11, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 6

It has been a good stretch in the Ramage garden lately—or at least a busy one. Between harvesting greens, picking the season’s first strawberries, watering young tomato plants, and doing battle with proliferating weeds, my […]

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Subduing the Earth: Dominion or Domination?

April 9, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 9

In the previous installment of this column, I reflected on the present-day significance of Adam’s vocation to avad (“till” or “cultivate”) and shamar (“keep” or “care for”) the Garden of Eden. At that time, I […]

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Tending God’s Garden: Adam’s Vocation and Ours

February 14, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 15

Over the past few months, much of my time and energy has been devoted to a side project exploring God’s two books through the lens of Pope Benedict’s dialogue with atheism. Now, however, I’d like […]

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