The twin phenomena of integralism and intransigentism, on the rise among some US Catholics, can actually be construed as ways of leaving Catholicism behind
Professor Deneen’s book spurs us to exercise our rights more wisely, thus proving that we are indeed capable of living as a community of liberated individuals
In an era of looming climate apocalypse and aimless elites, the Enlightenment has the potential to anchor projects of social emancipation and ecological sanity
Contrary to long-held romantic narratives, Vampires haunted the most cutting-edge social, theological, political, and medical thinking in enlightened Europe
Walks through Rome on the eve of the Synod reveal that the church’s unruly irregularity is not a liability, but instead its greatest, most precious asset
The work of the twentieth-century Jesuit theologian provides a theological critique of ethno-nationalism, and serves as a model for resisting racism today
Unless we can find a way to defend a non-ableist and non-ageist conception of human dignity, we won’t have the moral resources to resist infanticide’s normalization
A new book by Jonah Goldberg calls for a return to liberal capitalism, but an elitist politics of moderation and insularity won’t solve the problem of inequality
A new book on how social and economic institutions have shaped millennials poses questions for churches that wish to build a more humane way of living together
A response to one of liberalism’s critics highlights its accomplishments, arguing that it could redress the plutocratic distortions now crippling our politics
Contemplative observations of a memorial, Buddhist monks, and a car ride in Cambodia yield surprising realizations about connectedness in the modern age
While the church certainly needs a new, robust political theology of the common good, it’s delusional to look for the solution in premodern Christendom
David Lodge’s 1980 novel ‘How Far Can You Go?’ uses humor to articulate lay Catholics’ struggle to reconcile a rule-oriented church with an adult faith
For supporters of repeal in the Irish abortion referendum, the vote signified both a corrective to authority and a path forward for a contemporary country
