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Trashing Teilhard

The Jesuit theologian has recently come under fire for his supposed racism and support of eugenics; but great religious thinkers must be read with care and precision
By John F. Haught
February 12, 2019
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Race

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Narrowing the Universal Church

Recent debates in higher education over who counts as an “authentic Catholic” have the unintended effect of splintering the universal Body of Christ
By Julia G. Young
February 6, 2019
Culture

Somewhere Else

Mammon can never be God. We need ways of valuing ourselves and our neighbors that are not indexed to the market
By Ian Marcus Corbin
February 10, 2019
Books

Surviving Survivalism

Westover tells the story of her soul, not her accomplishments. Becoming an individual through paideia, she discovers herself as a relational being
By Mike St. Thomas
February 1, 2019
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