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The Theologian’s Right and Duty to Remain Silent

Dr. Richard DeClue

July 9, 2025

It might not be easy for theologians to keep their contrarian opinions out of the view of the general public, but it is what is asked of them.

The Objects of Our Spiritual Influence

Christopher Hazell

July 8, 2025

We might be pulled by these objects, placing inordinate importance on them, striving after them as a way to prove to ourselves, or others, our intrinsic value.

An Ignatian Approach to Astronomy with Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ

Thomas Salerno

July 7, 2025

Br. Guy explores his Jesuit vocation, the Ignatian approach to faith and science, his work studying meteorites, and much more.

All Men Are Created Equal

Dr. Christopher Kaczor

July 4, 2025

Great principles undergird the founding of our nation, despite Jefferson’s and our own failures to live up to them. 

The Genius of American Independence

Alex Taylor

July 3, 2025

We should spend time in the coming year reflecting on what the American genius has been historically and is today in the twenty-first century.

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Making the Church Visible: Flannery O’Connor’s Christian Witness

Henry T. Edmondson III

July 2, 2025

Ralph C. Wood looks to American literature for help in renewing the vitality of American Christianity and finds it in the work of Flannery O’Connor.

The Scopes Trial and the Drama of Harmonizing Faith and Reason

Dr. Kody W. Cooper

July 1, 2025

The trial of John T. Scopes in July 1925 has only the O. J. Simpson trial as a competitor for the moniker “trial of the century.”

Word on Fire Leads 2025 Catholic Media Association Book Awards, Taking Home 34 Honors

Word on Fire

June 30, 2025

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Reclaiming the Right to Live

Mark Bradford

June 30, 2025

The line between compulsion and coercion is the strength of a culture that values and promotes all human life.

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Return to the Heart

Dr. Richard Clements

June 27, 2025

On the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we are reminded of Jesus’s “restless heart” and pray for the grace to align our hearts with his.

Evangelization & Culture Journal Highlight
Finding God in the Blues
Fr. Stephen Gadberry
Music is the cry of a voice that resides deep within us. The cry beckons and believes it will be heard. In theological terms, music is an expression of hope and faith. In the hardest, darkest moments of life, music accompanies. It serves as a salve for our weary souls. In the greatest, most joyful moments, it gives wings to our soul.
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Artificial Ignorance
Dr. Michael Hanby
What happens when we so completely conform our intelligence to the thoughtless, uncomprehending, algorithmic “intelligence” of AI, and we offload onto it the last vestiges of the intelligence that once defined our humanity—our memory, our attention, and our judgment?
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