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Uncle Jack: Disability and Belonging in the Neighborhood

Caroline LaFleur

May 23, 2025

Despite his disability, there was a time and place, sixty years ago in a small-town neighborhood bar, when Jack belonged just as he was.

Alasdair MacIntyre.

Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)

Dr. Christopher Kaczor

May 22, 2025

What I do know is this. I have never met, nor do I ever expect to meet, a philosopher as fascinating as Alasdair MacIntyre.

Van Gogh Starry Night

‘Starry Night’ and Van Gogh’s Haunting of Faith

Alejandro Terán-Somohano

May 22, 2025

In “Starry Night,” van Gogh captured heaven from the perspective of heaven but through his experience, his mental illness, his lost faith.

Demoralization and the ‘Cosmic Authority Problem’

Dr. Richard Clements

May 21, 2025

Demoralization in the original sense of the word often causes demoralization in the second sense of the word.

Pope Leo XIV entering the church

The Kingdom of Caesar and Peter the Rock

Bishop Robert Barron

May 20, 2025

Where is the successor of Peter? I saw him with my own eyes walk out onto the front loggia of the massive basilica. His name is Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV standing with a cross

Pope Leo XIV and the New Social Question of AI

Dr. Steven Umbrello

May 20, 2025

Pope Leo XIV appears to be framing AI as our defining social mission, requiring moral reflection, bold evangelization, and concrete action.

Pope Leo XIV meets members of the Diplomatic Corps

Pope Leo XIV Addresses Diplomatic Corps

Dr. Richard DeClue

May 19, 2025

Pope Leo XIV’s address to the diplomatic corps was relatively brief but, nonetheless, packed with meaning and hints at things to come.

Pronatalism Without the Crazy

Dr. Kody W. Cooper

May 19, 2025

The Antinatal Left and Technonatal Right both forswear belief in eugenics, but they both affirm the same underlying philosophical anthropology that leads to it.

‘Sinners’ Offers Dystopian Illusions and Layers of Christian Imagery

Maggie Phillips

May 16, 2025

The ersatz undying offered is a collectivist utopia that isolates, obscures, and finally obliterates the human person. But real freedom exalts us. 

Despite the Efforts of the Modern Project, There Is No Secular

Alejandro Terán-Somohano

May 15, 2025

No aspect of human existence can be isolated from God. If God is the very ground of existence, nothing whatsoever can exist apart from him.

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