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The lab or love? Catholic women and STEM careers
This false dichotomy can harm women interested in STEM, and weaken the larger scientific community. […]
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Lent and the Lord’s question: “Who do you say that I am?”
We have no excuse for not knowing who Jesus is, nor of failing to understand the implications of the assertions we make about Him in […]
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Diving into eternity
True knowledge of God can only be had in the midst of a life for which all work is undertaken based on prayer and all […]
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On Cardinal Cupich’s problematic, convenient conscience
Conscience is not the ground of moral authority; nor is it the final judge when it comes to what is actually moral and true. To […]
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Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday
Since all human sin has its origins in that “original” sin of our first parents, let’s go back to that very beginning. […]
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The “Cassocked Shadow” of Richard Wilbur
A New England poet of nature, indeed, but something must also be said for Wilbur’s Catholic vision of the poet. […]
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Saturdays with Father Schall: A young Jesuit on the older Jesuit’s 90th birthday
Father James V. Schall, SJ has been a source of encouragement to a younger generation of priests and scholars who are seeking to preserve a […]
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Capital punishment and the infallibility of the ordinary Magisterium
A demonstration that it has been infallibly taught by the ordinary magisterium of the Church that the death penalty is not intrinsically wrong. Not even […]
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Epiphany and the coming of the Christ-Child
While many similarities exist between the epiphany to the Magi and the epiphany to us, important differences also surface. Our experience of the Messiah’s revelation […]
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On non-infallible teachings of the Magisterium and the meaning of “obsequium religiosum”
Sometimes “religious obsequium” is translated “religious assent,” at other times “religious submission,” and at other times “religious respect”. What exactly are we being asked to […]