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Benedict, Dawkins, and the Fullness of Reason
In his most eloquent account of the relationship between faith and reason – the 2006 Regensberg address – Pope Benedict XVI argues that the modern understanding of reason that restricts rationality to...
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Unrepentant Love
Last Sunday, we reached that time in Lent – Laetare Sunday – explicitly exempted from the penitential practices in order to rejoice, to celebrate. A day to briefly press the pause button on Lenten...
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Regensburg Revisited: The Roots of Islamic Violence
Sandro Magister recently commented on an article in L’Osservatore Romano regarding the failure of any significant Muslim response about the recent deadly attacks on Christians in Arab lands. But this...
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The Truth Is Always Pastoral
Canon lawyers are fascinated by the Samaritan woman at the well. The moment we hear about her five husbands, and her consort, we start thinking about how her case might be handled at the marriage...
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Ideological Medicine: Serving Aims, not Humanity
A few weeks ago, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced a new recommendation on AIDS prevention: uninfected people at risk of HIV transmission should take a pill – a particular antiretroviral...
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To Go Deeper into the Life of Christ
Every Catholic should spend a minimum of fifteen minutes a day engaged in spiritual reading. Normally, this should include some reading of the New Testament to identify ourselves with the words and...
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Lent 2015: Reflections and Suggestions
On his last Good Friday as pope to the Church Universal, Benedict XVI said during his homily: “The readings that have just been proclaimed offer us ideas which, by the grace of God, we are called to...
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The Pastoral Appeal, the Pope, and the Bishops
A Pastoral Appeal by priests to the bishops of the world was published last week (see CuraPastoralis). The signers urgently request help in ending a false understanding of Christian life that has...
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Amazonia Dreaming
Querida Amazonia, Pope Francis’ Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation (released yesterday) is, at a first reading, a mostly pleasant surprise. It shows little of the freewheeling radicalism that bulked...
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Our Virgilian Civilization (Or, the Devil Was the First Whig)
I recently came across an interview with the Canadian Catholic philosopher Charles Taylor that, for just a moment, brought me up short. The general subject was the theological project of ressourcement,...
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