Editor’s note: The following paper was delivered at The Angelicum, Rome, on October 12, 2019 to celebrate the canonization of John Henry Newman. John Henry Newman famously described a Catholic University as ‘an Alma Mater, […]
To speak of the saint in John Henry Newman is to speak of a man who gave his entire adult life not only to embodying heroic virtue himself but guiding others to embody it as […]
Editor’s note: Part 1 of this essay was published on September 28th and can be read here. This essay is adapted from Behold the Messiah: Proclaiming the Gospel of Matthew (Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Road, 2019 [forthcoming]) […]
When it comes to attitudes about suicide, we Americans are Janus-faced. We are shocked and grieved when loved ones or famous people take their lives, and yet we show high approval ratings for euthanasia (72% […]
Conservative critics of contemporary culture often remark that our contemporary age is marked by Gnosticism. And it’s not just conservative Christians or Catholics who make the observation. The Yale literary critic, Harold Bloom, who was […]
Now that the canonization of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman nears, we have seen a good number of articles from different quarters telling us what Newman thought and did not think. Of these, the piece […]
Editor’s note: The following essay was originally delivered (with the subhead “Constructive and Destructive Autonomy in Relation to Conscience, Freedom and Obligation”) as a public lecture at the International Symposium on Privacy and Autonomy in […]
Not too long ago, I had occasion to observe in a piece for Catholic World Report (CWR) that a series of previous articles on the Brebeuf Jesuit controversy in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis were conspicuous […]
Author’s note: After the Sunday Angelus on September 1st, Pope Francis announced that he will create 13 new Cardinals at a consistory to be held on October 5th. Ten of the Cardinal-elects are of voting […]
How does it feel to go to Church to celebrate the Assumption of Our Lady—or, as Byzantines say, the Dormition of Our Lady—and hear politics? I am back from a splendid pontifical high Mass in […]
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