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March 2017

March 09, 2017
Who knew this about sex and God? Well, the writers of the Bible and the...
March 08, 2017
The sexual revolution appears to have paradoxically liberated our libidos from sex itself. This seems...
March 07, 2017
The matter of privacy is especially dear to intellectuals. Milan Kundera, whom I mentioned in...
March 06, 2017
  The first Sunday before Lent has an exotic name "Quinquagesima Sunday," which only means...
March 03, 2017
I'm completely enthralled with the question, "Is there anybody out there?" --Fr. Brian Reedy SJ...
March 01, 2017
To the outsider the season of Lent might seem like an irrational outbreak of Pelagianism....

February 2017

February 26, 2017
Light is sweet; at sight of the sun the eyes are glad. However great the...
February 24, 2017
You'd think that a religious imagination that can produce public intellectuals such as Dana Gioia, Ron Hansen,...
February 21, 2017
Things are picking up speed here on Cosmos. Books are pouring in for review. This means...
February 15, 2017
In many ways, The Young Pope is the second coming of Brideshead Revisited. In the...
February 14, 2017
Derrida liked to gleefully disseminate the news that the ancient Greek word for medicine (pharmakon) also means poison....
February 10, 2017
René Girard was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Catholics tend to...
February 09, 2017
Catholicism isn't in decline in the United States. It is as loud and up-front as...
February 07, 2017
  The old question from Tertullian's Prescription Against the Heretics is "What does Athens have...
February 02, 2017
The news of the violent Berkeley riots that canceled the promotion of alt-right bête noire Milo Yiannopoulos' forthcoming book Dangerous...

January 2017

January 31, 2017
Religious freedom as it actually functions in American politics is a very ambivalent issue. More often...
January 29, 2017
You too might be exhausted by the constant slacktivism on social media. It lacks and depth and...
January 26, 2017
The Washington Post reports on the Trump administration's planned executive order on immigration vetting: The...
January 25, 2017
[E]vil is a moment in the temporalized unfolding of the good. --John Panteleimon Manoussakis, The...
January 24, 2017
The Women's March protest has me thinking about protest movements . . . if only...
January 22, 2017
Today's second reading is 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17: I urge you, brothers and sisters, in...
January 20, 2017
  I'm tired of political commentary. I suspect I engaged in too much of it...
January 19, 2017
Is it possible to be quiet and silent on the flight to Egypt? I ask because I...
January 18, 2017
It is better to remain silent and to be than to talk and not be....
January 17, 2017
The American Dream is making a comeback. Trump channeled it with the Make America Great...
January 11, 2017
Caillebot's painting above is significant to me because in and through its simplicity the painting evokes a world of...

December 2016

December 11, 2016
Theology buffs have more of a Christmas gift dilemma than science and philosophy readers. The...
December 10, 2016
The head-in-the-sand stance of many Catholics toward the modern world leaves them unprepared to engage their...
December 05, 2016
"Religion is either everything, or it is nothing." --Pawel Rojek, Avant-garde Conservatism "Christianity has functioned...

October 2016

October 31, 2016
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." --William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun...
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