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August 2015

August 19, 2015
The pro-life argument is overpoweringly clear to me. But in argument against supporters of legalized...
August 12, 2015
My dear Karen died of a hard-fought cancer on August 12, 2009. I wrote the...
August 05, 2015
For the last three summers, I have been very lucky to hire students from Ave...

July 2015

July 29, 2015
The first pope to visit the United States was Paul VI in October 1965, just...
July 22, 2015
On the plane from Paraguay last week, Pope Francis seemed to ask for dialogue with...
July 15, 2015
On his way from Paraguay back to Rome recently, Pope Francis showed signs of personal...
July 08, 2015
Henry Adams saw that science and technology were the masculine “Dynamo” of our progress –...
July 01, 2015
“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made” (Ps 33:6). This tells us...

June 2015

June 24, 2015
In view of the new encyclical of Pope Francis, I would like to revisit the...
June 17, 2015
One of the things I like best about the Catholic intellectual tradition is that, having...
June 10, 2015
 EMILY: The Golden Rule, “Treat others as you wish to be treated” or “Treat thy...
June 03, 2015
Whether capitalism or socialism is the better system for dramatically reducing poverty was a well-settled...

May 2015

May 27, 2015
A bright and rather contemplative student of mine got herself into a perplexity recently. She...
May 20, 2015
On Libertarianism One frequently reads in Catholic media judgments like The Catholic faith and libertarianism...
May 13, 2015
On Disparate Meanings of “Liberty” I have long noticed a widespread distaste for the phrase...
May 06, 2015
In my experience, atheists usually assume that atheism (or its approximations) is the only reasonable...

April 2015

April 29, 2015
Last Sunday, April 26th, Ave Maria University’s Shakespeare troupe completed its 12-performance run of Midsummer...
April 22, 2015
EMILY: Some people read Jesus’ comment “to turn the other cheek” to mean that people...
April 15, 2015
Coming down to earth in Washington, DC, is being hit on a regular basis with...
April 01, 2015
EMILY: Some churches still sing Gregorian chant and perform the entire Mass in Latin, while...

March 2015

March 27, 2015
Yesterday evening I delivered the Newman Lecture at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences in...
March 24, 2015
In the United States today, an immense amount of research shows that the greatest of...
March 20, 2015
Pope Francis seems to be a subject of unending fascination. Some of my intellectual evangelical...
March 17, 2015
I’ve just returned from a wonderful visit at Walsh University in North Canton, OH, where...
March 13, 2015
Seventy-one percent of Americans told pollsters two things last week: first, that the middle class...
March 10, 2015
Our tradition likes to say, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Here’s how...
March 06, 2015
In celebration of the publication of the new biography of Father Richard John Neuhaus by...
March 03, 2015
Picking up again, we recall Emily’s question about the seemingly different messages of the two...

February 2015

February 27, 2015
The U.S. made huge mistakes after launching troops into Iraq in 2003. But the hugest...
February 24, 2015
More than once in the last couple of years others have continued criticism and even...
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