Higher Education

Article

American Universities Abroad

The global university may model a path toward reason in the age of Twitter. But dogmatism still has its champions, here and abroad.

By George Dennis O'Brien

January 13, 2020

Article

Dangerous Disconnects?

Priestly formation and academic theology are increasingly cut off from the real lives of Catholics. That poses a real problem, one that theologians must address.

December 23, 2019

Article

Adventures in Learning

Fr. Luigi Giussani’s experience as a student and teacher made him especially attuned to the rhetorical challenge of helping young people mature in faith and reason.

By Joshua P. Hochschild

November 5, 2019

Education

Philosophy

Higher Education

A Call to Public Life

Massimo Faggioli comments on the legacy of Don Lugi Sturzo, the Italian priest who resisted fascism and insisted on the right of lay Catholics to engage actively in politics.

Secularism and Modernity

Social Justice

Higher Education

Article

The Little Ivies’ Aggiornamenti

Francis Oakley’s memoir about higher education emphasizes “the lifelong pursuit of liberal learning”—education through engagement with those who disagree with you.

By Nicholas Clifford

June 6, 2019

Higher Education

Academic Freedom

Article

The Legacy of Fr. Ted Hesburgh

The late Fr. Ted Hesburgh transformed the University of Notre Dame into a leading institution. A new book tendentiously ignores key aspects of his life and work.

By Kenneth L. Woodward

May 21, 2019

U.S. Catholicism

Vatican II

Higher Education

Must Reads

Politics

In the Time of Pandemic

The coronavirus crisis will likely demand the kind of collective sacrifice not seen since World War II. It will also challenge how we live together in society.

By The Editors

March 19, 2020

Religion

Living in Isolation

Even if we cannot get to the Eucharist, we can still enact symbols of communion to fight the destructive effects of isolation.

By Timothy Radcliffe

March 27, 2020

Culture

An Act of Service

Quarantine during a pandemic is not demonic. Few Christians would ask for this cup, but we must drink it—to serve God by serving our neighbors.

By Jared Lucky

March 25, 2020

Books

God of the Continental Philosophers

The fit between phenomenology and Catholic philosophy was never perfect. Thus it could appeal to both Catholic and secular philosophers.

By Sarah Shortall

February 28, 2020

Books

Nothing Left Worth Saving

Set in a miserable dystopia, Houellebecq’s latest novel is both thought-provoking and wearying, fronted by a hypercynical yet dangerously nostalgic narrator.

By Phil Klay

February 27, 2020

Collections

The American Parish Today

The U.S. church is not so much in decline as undergoing a profound transition, a reality we can and should joyfully embrace.

By The Editors

March 27, 2020