After almost every shooting involving a Muslim perpetrator, from 9/11 to Fort Hood to San Bernardino, we hear, from the President on down, some version of the following on-going narrative: “We are horrified by this […]
Traditional logic is famous for classifying human beings as “rational animals.” What would traditional logicians make of the current craze of student activists who seek explicit institutional enforcement of “safe spaces” on campus? Student protests […]
People who reject secular progressivism, especially in its more highly developed forms, are often puzzled by its proponents. Do they really believe what they say they believe, for example that diversity is always strength, or […]
We began…by noting that our view of consciousness is the new field upon which the academic and cultural battle between materialism, panpsychism, and transcendentalism is being waged. We now see that the outcome of this […]
Perhaps you have heard about Hell Burns, the “Theology of the Body and Media Literacy Blog of Sister Helena Burns, FSP, media nun.” Did you know that Sister Burns says that Catholic World Report is […]
Dr. Ryan N.S. Topping has written for numerous publications on a variety of Catholic themes and figures, including St. Augustine, Dante, and G.K. Chesterton, and is the author of six books, including most recently Renewing […]
“Although the universal Church of God is constituted of distinct orders of members, still, in spite of the many parts of its holy body, the Church subsists in an integral whole….” — Pope Saint Leo […]
One of the greatest Catholic thinkers of our time, Professor René Girard, has died. He left this world at 91 years of age, on November 4, in Stanford, California. One of the things Girard wrote […]
As I noted last month, the basic function of government, like the basic function of authority in the family, is to look after the common good of the community being governed. For that reason, policymakers […]
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