There was a time when Fr. Patrick Peyton was a household name. It was a time when he regularly spoke …
Walker Percy: Faith and Science in the Ruins
In his masterpiece Introduction to Christianity, Joseph Ratzinger boldly ventured to identify the place at which contemporary human beings, at …
The Divine Project: Creation and Reason
In setting out to establish some standards for interpreting the creation account, and for a theological approach to interpreting Scripture …
ChatGPT and Defining Humanity in the Age of Brains in Vats
Just as educators nationwide hunkered down for end-of-semester grading of written assignments in December 2022, a high school English teacher …
Infallible Teachings in the Catholic Church (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 7)
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Obviously, a pope speaking on an airplane is very different than every bishop in the world …
Why Abortion Restrictions Won’t Harm Women’s Health
As I listen to the post-Dobbs public discourse about abortion and women’s health, I am reminded of the three years …
Benedict XVI and the Cosmic Covenant
After the widespread attention that Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical on care for creation has garnered over the past several years,the …
Hard Universalism, Grace, and Creaturely Freedom
Alvin Plantinga is famous for developing a “free will” defense of moral evil which argued that God could have a …
Langston Hughes: My America
This is my land, America. Naturally, I love it—it is home—and I am vitally concerned about its mores, its democracy, …
The Authority of Popes (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 6)
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Time after time, throughout the earliest ecumenical councils, Rome’s position won out, even though Rome …