The Personalist Project

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TitleDateCmts
Searching for community 7/30/14 105
Fr. Geiger’s latest on the West debate 6/20/09 103
Guilty of Unprincipled Forgiveness or Model Christian? 7/18/12 92
More on Unprincipled Forgiveness 7/22/12 90
Christopher West breaks silence; answers critics 10/27/09 70
Do husbands have authority over their wives? 8/29/12 65
Where’s the wrath? 8/2/09 59
Christopher West: A von Hildebrandian’s Perspective 6/4/09 59
Proselytism vs. Evangelism: Round Two 11/3/13 58
What The Hunger Games miss 4/20/12 53
Do we want our politicians to be consistent? 2/23/12 53
What is conscience 3/25/10 52
A New Wrinkle in the Modesty Debate 6/26/14 50
On minding our own beeswax and letting the Pope be Pope 9/24/13 48
Our decisions belong to us; we are responsible for them 2/12/13 47
The concept of unprincipled forgiveness 6/27/12 45
Continuing the TOB discussion 11/9/09 45
A Sinners Guide for the Self-righteous 12/4/13 41
Are wives supposed to submit to their husbands? 8/8/12 40
Reading Casti Connubii (and the Tradition) in Light of the Insights of JPII 8/31/12 37
Interfaith statement on marriage issued 1/12/12 37
Persons Are Unrepeatable 12/28/11 37
Gaps between theory and practice 7/12/12 33
Seven Quick Takes: Most Marriages are Invalid? 6/17/16 32
Thoughts on modesty abroad, in three vignettes 6/8/14 32
Flight from reality 1/23/12 32
No masks at mass, please, unless you’re sick or vulnerable 9/3/20 31
The philosophy and politics of isolation 12/1/11 31
Guardini on Forgiveness 12/6/12 30
St. Benedict and phenomenology 7/11/12 29
Benedict on condoms 12/13/10 29
God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life, But What If He Won’t Tell You What It Is? 7/26/12 28
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late 9/6/14 26
Immigration: Impediments to the Conversation 7/20/14 26
Cardinal Dolan disappoints 7/15/14 26
Question 1: on John Paul II and Hugh Hefner 6/22/09 26
Women, Work, and the Mommy Wars (continued.) 1/30/18 25
Why gender matters 12/2/12 25
Forgiveness and dysfunction 7/8/12 25
Going Through Christ to the Other 7/5/12 25
What his contrition has to do with my forgiveness 7/24/12 24
Question 2: on prudishness 6/22/09 24
Conjugal rights 6/9/09 24
Self-possession precedes self-giving 8/9/13 23
Overcoming Practical Pessimism 8/29/12 23
Equality and Leadership in Marriage: the Example of Van and Davy 8/26/12 23
Intimacy without love damages the spirit 2/23/10 23
Of Potstickers and Excessive Objectivism 11/16/17 22
Mad at Mass 2/16/15 22
A critique of Fr. Weinandy’s letter to the Pope 11/1/17 21
A memoir of spiritual abuse and recovery 3/20/14 21
One More Time: Man and Woman, Head and Heart, Equality and Complementarity 9/25/12 21
Closed posts, open discussion 6/13/09 21
Personalism and the Judeo-Christian tradition 10/11/14 20
Catholicism and Personalism: Not Such Strange Bedfellows 4/11/12 20
A child psychologist’s insights on anger 8/14/09 20
Modesty and misogyny 7/7/14 19
How should a Catholic university treat gay alumni? 9/11/12 19
Courtship 7/1/09 19
The problem of innocence 6/11/09 19
The clericalist version of mansplaining 3/24/19 18
What would Newman say about the Synod? 11/17/14 18
Mark Shea jumps the shark on Paul Ryan 8/13/12 18
“Forgiving Oneself”—What Might It Mean? 2/14/12 18
I Actually Remember Rosa Parks 1/16/12 18
Christmas, Defiance, and Despair 12/28/11 18
Is there any precedent for West’s views in the tradition? 6/21/09 18
To speak or not to speak: a dilemma in the debate surrounding SSM 5/21/12 17
Bonus wisdom from Alice von Hildebrand 3/12/12 17
Natural rights, witches and unicorns 9/26/10 17
Ecclesial fertility comes from a spousal relation between priest and laity 8/27/19 16
A real life example of the theology of the body 10/17/15 16
“Boxing” Others 2/17/14 16
When Faith becomes Ideology 10/28/13 16
Seven Quick Takes: Immigration 2/2/13 16
Turning the tables 7/23/12 16
Should A Cardinal Confirm A Practicing Homosexual Parish Council Member? Some Critical Reflections 4/23/12 16
Weigel at Immaculata 10/1/09 16
About that paradigm shift 3/11/18 15
Being in the heart of the church 10/23/13 15
Two Thoughts on “One Flesh” 3/5/12 15
Forgiveness: What Completes It?  What Cripples It? 1/21/12 15
A thought about sanctimony 1/10/12 15
How does the Pope see the problem? 11/6/17 14
The Problem of Language: The Gift of Babel 8/7/16 14
Does God Have Favorites? 5/1/13 14
The Bishop and the Baby 2/11/12 14
Is it all Hegel’s fault? 11/16/11 14
John Allen on Benedict’s handling of the issue 3/29/10 14
Why Do People Commit Sexual Assault? 11/18/17 13
Greeks, barbarians, and Nazis: a Response to Charlottesville 8/18/17 13
The difference subjectivity makes: a tiny anecdote 5/3/17 13
The prodigal liberality of the father 4/10/15 13
The unity of objectivity and subjectivity in emotion 9/20/14 13
In Defense of Unimpressive Persons 4/26/12 13
The negative effects of ‘thinking the unthinkable’ 2/29/12 13
On the Unbearable Lightness of Sex on TV 2/22/12 13
The Abuse of Language and the Dehumanization of the Person 2/22/12 13
On a certain self-love 1/14/12 13
Not About Fr. James Martin, But… 10/11/17 12
Can an “irregular union” ever not be adulterous? 9/25/17 12
A newer, more dangerous kind of atheism 7/18/15 12
Unhappy 4th 7/4/15 12
Moral goodness doesn’t come through punishment 6/30/15 12
Was the Pope mocking large families? 1/20/15 12
Toward a Personalist Approach to Homosexual Attraction 6/3/12 12
Cardinal George sounds a strong warning 5/15/12 12
Great anti-Jansenist quote 7/10/09 12
Overcoming clericalism 6/6/15 11
Bruce Jenner and the Primordial Given 6/4/15 11
Testing for soundness in relationships 8/21/14 11
Other people are the way to grace 1/28/14 11
What Would Tolkein Do?  Mixed Feelings about Self-Promotion 1/21/14 11
A Problem of Translation? 9/24/13 11
Dr. Allender on abuse and recovery 8/21/13 11
8 Reminders for fathers of marriageable daughters 6/25/13 11
Who decides? 1/26/13 11
Defilement and the Challenge of Addressing Evil 5/29/12 11
Oh, No, Not That Again!  Revisiting Self-Esteem 5/23/12 11
Has the USA become a Totalitarian State? Grave Attacks on the Freedom of Faith Conscience and Creed 3/3/12 11
The incipient personalism of romanticism? 9/7/09 11
De-personalizing, cultish tendencies in the Church 7/13/09 11
Shop Class as Soulcraft 6/26/09 11
The problem of projection 6/4/09 11
An attempt to articulate what bothers me about “You might not want to go to Heaven,” by Matt Walsh 5/26/17 10
A positive Christian and personalist case for belief in soul mates 10/25/16 10
On speaking what we feel 9/26/14 10
How Not to Pray 8/30/13 10
It’s Not My Fault! 7/28/13 10
A few personalist insights about conjugal love 3/27/13 10
God’s will and ours: how they meet 2/17/13 10
Three Hopeful Consequences of an Awful Election 11/10/12 10
The Outsourced Self? 5/18/12 10
Teach your children well 5/2/12 10
Diversity: Reclaiming a Buzzword 4/19/12 10
Ronda Chervin’s conversion story 1/24/12 10
Silence, Recollection, and the Season of Hectic Activity 12/21/11 10
Flying with Both Wings: Why Christians Need Philosophy 12/7/11 10
A short excursion into the metaphysics of the person 7/6/09 10
Here’s hoping that West pays no attention 6/7/09 10
A timely hypothetical 7/15/20 9
Standing and misunderstanding 6/10/20 9
A Personalist Theory of Magic 2/19/18 9
“Your truth” is real and important 1/19/18 9
The Banks and Beauty Parlors of Grandma Europe 12/11/16 9
The power of the Supreme Court 6/26/15 9
How should we respond to the controversy in Indiana? 3/31/15 9
Not whether I meant to offend, but whether I did offend: that is the question 8/7/14 9
Dwarfing the Other 5/26/14 9
Beyond “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin” 5/11/14 9
New Year’s Resolution Reality Check 1/12/14 9
Evangelizing the Complacent 12/22/13 9
On the Self-Referential Person 6/21/13 9
Contra Fr. Barron on modern philosophy 9/22/12 9
Examples of “False” Charity 7/7/12 9
Personal dignity and belonging 6/8/12 9
Overregulating the Person 6/1/12 9
Does Freedom of Conscience not Matter if Obama pays? - AND Socrates’ Advice to Cardinal Dolan 3/11/12 9
What is authentic healthcare for women? 3/9/12 9
Christmas music 12/20/11 9
Kissing the Koran 6/9/09 9
The spousal love between priest and laity is meant to be concrete and personal 5/31/19 8
What is “accompaniment”? Part 1 12/13/17 8
It Could Always Be Worse? 9/1/17 8
What does “hermeneutics of continuity” mean for us? 12/8/16 8
Contra the Dubia, part 3: the explanatory note [corrective comment added] 12/7/16 8
FFMD, #4:  Modesty and interiority 1/23/16 8
Everyday Forgiveness 12/4/15 8
Impersonal Activism 9/11/15 8
Accepting “the Given” 6/7/15 8
Cutting ties 11/19/14 8
Recovering Christmas joy 12/23/13 8
Separating sex and love 7/20/13 8
On Culture Shock and Spiritual Fibromyalgia 6/30/13 8
The Chief Rabbi on Marriage, Part Two 3/11/13 8
The Chief Rabbi of France and the Irreversible Scrambling of Sexual Identity 3/1/13 8
Good and evil in the human heart 11/26/12 8
Evil, Lies, and the Election 10/28/12 8
Celebrating two great lives 10/12/12 8
A Personalist Universe 9/18/12 8
Persons, Friendship & Technology 7/14/12 8
Blankenhorn succumbs to gay marriage advocacy 6/23/12 8
Judge Not? 5/9/12 8
Holy cosmetics 2/26/12 8
Worthy of Respect: The Personalist Norm 12/14/11 8
Individualism not quite the answer 12/9/11 8
New translation of the mass: Dashed hopes? 11/16/11 8
Looking for philosophical leads 7/2/09 8
Should burquas be banned? 6/22/09 8
What is a Constitution? 5/4/21 7
The time is at hand 6/5/20 7
Protective purity: sex and the fear of use 9/20/17 7
Contra the Dubia 12/5/16 7
“The Sadness We Bring To A Diagnosis Should Not Become Our Child’s” 8/19/16 7
Taking That First (Excruciatingly Obvious) Step 7/25/16 7
Amoris Laetitia, 58 - 75: a summary of the teaching on marriage, and “headship” nowhere to be found 6/10/16 7
A seriously bad title 5/28/16 7
Love among the ruins 10/9/15 7
Facing dysfunction 5/3/15 7
The problem with “consenting adults” 11/21/14 7
A call for radical, embodied love 10/6/14 7
Becoming Who You Are, Even If You’re Not Sure Who That Is 8/27/14 7
“The Third Way: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” 5/1/14 7
Two personalist popes canonized 4/25/14 7
Marriage and Freedom 3/22/14 7
Some Reflections on the Spirit of Poverty 8/22/13 7
Tenderness and maturity 5/7/13 7
Von Hildebrand and the health of the soul 1/18/13 7
Judge Not, Even During Election Season 9/7/12 7
On Prayer, Both Second-Hand and Spontaneous 8/16/12 7
Cardinal Dolan disappoints 8/15/12 7
Justice and truth 7/17/12 7
Response to “Forgiveness and Dysfunction” 7/8/12 7
Some thoughts in defense of Cardinal Schönborn 4/25/12 7
It is not good for man to be alone 7/10/10 7
What divides us? 9/4/09 7
Defending the Freedom of wearing Veils and Burqas 6/23/09 7
What can energize the laity? 11/13/20 6
Reciprocity is a condition for achieving truth about all things personal 7/12/19 6
Don’t we need a coming-of-age sacrament? 10/2/17 6
Using Conversational Techniques on People: Abomination or Common Sense? 12/5/16 6
Personalism at the graveside 11/7/16 6
Jesus is Not Your Buddy, But… 8/1/16 6
Modesty and the Ontological Shaming of Both Women and Men 7/8/16 6
The Limits of “Identifying As” 4/18/16 6
Advent mission 12/1/15 6
Virtue Privilege? 7/23/15 6
Forgiveness from the heart 6/10/15 6
Ralph Martin and the Language of Personal Decision 5/15/15 6
What is violence? 4/30/15 6
Repentance and forgiveness aren’t gotten without vulnerability 2/23/15 6
Martyrs on Video 2/18/15 6
Beyond Male and Female? 2/15/15 6
Interpreting the Pope through personalism 11/5/14 6
Is all confusion evil? A Socratic thought. 10/28/14 6
What Midlife Crisis is Really About 9/3/14 6
Everybody’s a Critic 4/5/14 6
Should We Redistribute the Children? 2/10/14 6
Love is unconditional; relationships have terms 2/7/14 6
Parenting Persons 12/13/13 6
An artist’s approach to beauty 7/25/13 6
Sneak Preview 4/14/13 6
Self-Esteem Without Selfishness: Increasing Your Capacity for Love 2/26/13 6
Dictatorship of Realism? 2/7/13 6
The abyss of leisure 2/3/13 6
To medicalize evil is to deny personal dignity 12/20/12 6
Neil Diamond and The Metaphysics of the Person 12/11/12 6
7 Quick Takes: Consumerism and its Discontents 11/24/12 6
Religious Freedom under Threat: Panel & Discussion 10/22/12 6
The Gabe Axiom 10/8/12 6
A God in Our Image and Likeness 9/27/12 6
Boys Love, Not Just to Hit, But to Get Hit.  Are Girls the Same? 8/24/12 6
To get Beauty, bring back the critics! 7/31/12 6
Despite the Hype, Toss PowerPoint in the Can 6/24/12 6
Is Kierkegaard expecting too much from mere mortals? 5/10/12 6
ND prof says, “The immorality of birth control is no longer a teaching of the Catholic Church.” 3/26/12 6
The Selfhood of Mary 3/26/12 6
Von Hildebrand’s vision in a word: Reverence 1/6/12 6
The incommensurability of justice and mercy 9/17/09 6
Inner Freedom and Cooperative Freedom 8/26/09 6
A personalist pet peeve 7/13/09 6
Conjugal rights: a further Comment 6/10/09 6
Consider a concrete case of parish affairs 6/24/20 5
The gist of Acts 6 5/11/20 5
Interview with the Katholieke Niewsblad 5/23/19 5
Disagreeing with Weigel 5/2/19 5
What do I have against modesty? 9/8/17 5
Me? A Whitewashed Sepulcher? 10/13/16 5
Mrs. Jellyby vs. St. Teresa of Calcutta 9/8/16 5
Aging Gracefully (Or Not) 6/28/16 5
Check Your Privilege? An Obnoxious Mantra’s Grains of Truth 4/5/16 5
On Pink Elephants and Jen Fulwiler’s Conversion Story 2/3/16 5
FFMD, #3: The problem of free-floating consciences 1/9/16 5
A lack of symmetry between insisting on repentance and pleading for forgiveness 11/5/15 5
Remaining strangers 9/16/15 5
Attending to the interior 12/21/14 5
The Trouble with Hagiography 9/20/14 5
Pitfalls of Asserting Gender Roles 8/28/14 5
Straight Talk about Unconditional Love 2/5/14 5
“No Good Options” 9/10/13 5
Layers of being 8/16/13 5
False Promises 7/21/13 5
Anniversary interview with Alice von Hildebrand 7/17/13 5
The Least I Need to Do 6/10/13 5
A short thought about suffering 5/18/13 5
Cults and co-dependency: how to detect the virus 4/27/13 5
Worse than a Nanny State 4/18/13 5
Of Charisms and Comfort Zones 4/2/13 5
The sudden moral inversion 3/7/13 5
Mental injustices an obstacle to communion 2/9/13 5
Some Arguments Against Gay Marriage, and Why They Won’t Work 12/22/12 5
Gaudete Sunday by the Waters of Babylon 12/16/12 5
The metaphysics of marriage 11/15/12 5
Making Sure We Don’t See God as Us Writ Large (continued) 10/1/12 5
In Praise of Hypocrisy (No, Not Really) 8/31/12 5
Prozac, a consolation for atheism 8/23/12 5
Judge Not, and Construct Not, Either. 8/6/12 5
On the Dangers of Reading the Bible as a Kid 8/1/12 5
God is a Personalist: the anecdotal evidence 7/9/12 5
A Problem and a Fear about SSM 5/29/12 5
Who or what cares? 2/8/12 5
John Henry Newman on the education of adolescents 1/21/12 5
Conjugal love is misunderstood if its gift character is overlooked 1/19/12 5
National holidays and government intervention 11/24/11 5
“The emperor’s new clothes” put to music! 5/11/10 5
Kleist’s take on modernity 2/18/10 5
New light on prudishness 7/8/09 5
Two different meanings of “systemic” 9/30/20 4
It’s not okay to pressure a Pope to resign 8/31/18 4
A God of Low Standards? The Ins and Outs of Mixed Motivations 3/8/18 4
Let Her Yes be Yes: #MeToo and the Cost of “No” 10/19/17 4
The Wisdom to Know the Difference 6/17/17 4
Hopeless But Not Serious: Standing up to evil without losing your peace 1/24/17 4
Rethinking Free Will? 12/8/16 4
More reasons to embrace the concept of soulmates 11/21/16 4
The fear of the slave 5/27/16 4
Hanging Onto Your Free Will (All Day Long) 1/8/16 4
The Good that Depends on Us: Jacques Philippe Meets Flylady 12/30/15 4
Smiling at Jesus 11/3/15 4
In Praise of the Inefficient Care of Persons 10/25/15 4
Needs become graces; wounds heal 4/13/15 4
Starting a virtual reading circle 1/30/15 4
Parting ways 1/12/15 4
Some power struggles are good and necessary 12/4/14 4
Where Do I Apply for my Introvert’s Exemption? 6/11/14 4
The Power of Bad Example 5/31/14 4
Who Are We to Judge? 4/24/14 4
The Gift of Joy 4/22/14 4
Teaching kids about sex 3/12/14 4
How to rid yourself of gall 1/17/14 4
Fake wisdom 7/10/13 4
Interview with Hannah Arendt 6/1/13 4
Reductionism and Other Mental Illnesses 4/26/13 4
Not all pursuit of truth is good 4/22/13 4
A conversation at the gym about obedience vs. creativity 2/15/13 4
The evangelical power of beauty 2/14/13 4
Personal impediments to faith 1/16/13 4
A “Personal” Lord and Savior? 1/2/13 4
Virtual choirs & the transformative power of music 11/30/12 4
In Praise of Halloween 10/31/12 4
A glaring instance of asking for unprincipled forgiveness 8/22/12 4
Obama’s Empericism 6/27/12 4
Faith: real and concrete and human 5/8/12 4
Silence 4/17/12 4
To restore marriage, teach truth 3/18/12 4
Want personality?  Live the Liturgy. 11/30/11 4
Personhood and the Kingship of Christ 11/20/11 4
The Argument from the Self-contradiction of denying freedom 10/9/10 4
Truth? Who cares? 10/8/10 4
Sofia Tolstoy and feminism 10/4/10 4
Freedom has to come from within 3/9/10 4
Josef Seifert calls on PAV President to step down 3/5/10 4
Podles on anger and the virtuous life [updated] 10/9/09 4
Anniversary of the death of Newman 8/11/09 4
Rebuilding after the collapse 6/17/20 3
A podcast about Newman’s personalism 5/28/20 3
Why is the priesthood reserved for (heterosexual) men? 7/11/19 3
We need a new principle to balance “presumption of innocence” 9/11/18 3
Money and the ecclesial status quo 8/28/18 3
Good News about Judgment Day 4/18/18 3
“Rejoice and Be Glad”: No Way Around It 4/7/18 3
Are Boundaries Christian? Part One 2/27/18 3
An Unlikely Pope Francis Moment 1/11/18 3
Oy, Oy, Oy: The Personal, the Political and #metoo 10/20/17 3
The Trouble with Jack Chick 8/7/17 3
One More for Evie 7/12/17 3
Thoughts on subjectivity 7/3/17 3
The Joys of WorkoutAgony® 6/24/17 3
Can Men and Women Be Friends? Part Two 4/6/17 3
How Not to Fix the Healthcare Mess 4/5/17 3
Gaslighting and its Near Relations 3/29/17 3
Be Like Chema: In Memoriam José  María Postigo 3/6/17 3
Looking for Love in the Manger 12/17/16 3
Catholic Relief Services, Cash for the Homeless, and the Needs of Migrants: Unmasking False Dilemmas 11/23/16 3
Subjectivity and conscience 11/7/16 3
About those Secular Pro-Lifers 10/21/16 3
The idea of soul mates is not nonsense 9/30/16 3
Amori Laetitia: 31 - 37, throwing off moral defensiveness and dependency 4/22/16 3
Amoris Laetitia, 28 - 33: the real experience of family life 4/12/16 3
Remembering the Pope of my heart and mind 4/2/16 3
The Limits of Teachable Moments 10/8/15 3
The Post-Francis Effect 9/29/15 3
Some essential differences between Christian and Islamic views of feminine sexuality 8/17/15 3
Laudato Si: Beyond the talking points 7/20/15 3
Living on Borrowed Social Capital 6/30/15 3
Opposites of freedom 5/11/15 3
Theology the body captured in doll conversion story 3/19/15 3
Mr. Crisco and the Feelings Chart 3/13/15 3
Conscience interference starts young 3/1/15 3
If it doesn’t feel like love, it isn’t 9/19/14 3
What’s wrong with defining love as an act of will? 7/1/14 3
Protagoras and Me 4/15/14 3
The Spirit of Worldliness 12/3/13 3
The Wide-Awake Life 11/10/13 3
The Temptations of Beauty 9/17/13 3
Austen on the need to investigate our feelings 7/31/13 3
The many superabundant goods of an apple tree 7/23/13 3
The Self-Referential Person: What I Didn’t Mean 6/24/13 3
Mercies hurt 6/4/13 3
Heaven is a person 5/9/13 3
What is the most fundamental human right? Part 3: Three contenders 5/4/13 3
Beyond Biology 5/3/13 3
All Things to All Men 3/22/13 3
Beauty ever ancient, ever new 3/13/13 3
The Circle of Irreplaceability: Making the Case for Marriage 1/25/13 3
From Pawns to Battering Rams, or What Are the Laypeople For? 1/14/13 3
The contraception crisis 10/31/12 3
In Praise of Spontaneity, Under Certain Conditions 10/25/12 3
Personalism the key to interpreting Vatican II 10/11/12 3
Parents, Share Your Faults with Your Kids. They Love It! 9/28/12 3
Catholic social teaching and false equivalencies 9/4/12 3
Dr. Seuss: Personalist or Radical Individualist? 7/15/12 3
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool 7/4/12 3
Love and Self-Esteem: English translation in progress 6/12/12 3
Misery and Escapism 4/29/12 3
Unto us a child is given 12/25/11 3
Interiority of Human Persons 12/21/11 3
Peter Hitchens’ eulogy for his brother 12/17/11 3
Alice von Hildebrand on boredom 12/12/11 3
Liturgy and Personality 11/14/11 3
Validating feelings 10/16/11 3
Are we all equal, i.e. equally worthless? 10/22/10 3
Resisting the objectification women 6/10/10 3
Husbands, love your wives 4/18/10 3
The personification of evil 3/29/10 3
Satanism in the Vatican 3/10/10 3
The moral vacuum in western world makes Islam appealing to women 1/8/10 3
The role of philosophy 11/19/09 3
Why a theology of the body? 11/10/09 3
Great movies about life behind the wall 11/9/09 3
Man: the dressing animal 10/13/09 3
Two must-read articles on sexuality and porn 10/4/09 3
Truth as inter-personal breathing space 7/7/09 3
Intimacy and emotional dryness 7/7/09 3
Are all men looking for God? 7/6/09 3
Self-possession and the call to love 7/6/09 3
Another burqa photo 6/23/09 3
The relation between priest and laity is meant to be spousal 5/30/19 2
A Twist on “Mary, Did You Know?” 5/4/18 2
What do I have against Archbishop Chaput? 3/9/18 2
“God is realistic.” 2/9/18 2
Truths and Consequences 2/9/18 2
You’re Not Special: A Lesson in Love 1/11/18 2
Pro-Euthanasia “Caregivers”? 11/15/17 2
Weep With Those Who Weep 11/8/17 2
The Master-Slave Dynamic and the Price of Eggs 10/19/17 2
Could there be a Zen Personalism? 7/27/17 2
In Defense of Snowflakes 6/14/17 2
An example of what I mean by “slave side morality” 6/13/17 2
My Flying Lesson: In Defense of Fun 4/17/17 2
When Friendship Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Part 1 3/2/17 2
The Power of Prayer? 2/22/17 2
Polyester Robes 2/10/17 2
Moving beyond the Dubia to the issue at hand 2/6/17 2
Not the Way I Would Run an Incarnation 1/5/17 2
Sometimes Baby Steps Don’t Cut It 12/29/16 2
Blocked? Me? Or, My Journey from Righteous Indignation to a Modicum of Self-Awareness 8/17/16 2
Naaman the Syrian and Me: On Finally Becaming a Novena Person 8/10/16 2
The Problem of Language: The Desire for Communion 8/5/16 2
True encounters 7/19/16 2
Injustice toward subjectivity 7/14/16 2
Nitty-Gritty Applications of the “Universal Destination of Goods” 7/5/16 2
Pride, Humility, and Self-knowledge 6/24/16 2
Amoris Laetitia, 39 - 57: The challenges are legion 5/23/16 2
“College Kids Say the Darndest Things”: Some Further Thoughts 4/28/16 2
The Overregulated Soul 4/16/16 2
Empathy, photography, and perception: Thoughts on the public display of graphic abortion images 1/20/16 2
Sorting the ego, the false self, and the true self 9/19/15 2
The master/slave dynamic in writing 7/31/15 2
It’s my evil too 7/30/15 2
It’s not about loyalty; it’s about receptivity 6/25/15 2
Venting and Lamenting 6/9/15 2
A few thoughts on the Duggar case 6/3/15 2
Jane Austen, Call Your Office 2/8/15 2
The Pope strikes a personalist chord once again 2/6/15 2
Redesigned website 1/23/15 2
With such friends, who needs enemies? 1/19/15 2
Assessment Run Amok 12/7/14 2
Who Cares What You Think? 11/22/14 2
Death with What? Brittany Maynard, Veterans Day, and the lure of the pseudo-obvious 11/12/14 2
One of love’s opposites: Contempt 11/9/14 2
Juan Antonio and the Personalist Manager 7/25/14 2
Tenderness and gallantry 7/22/14 2
The opposite of nostalgia 6/24/14 2
The potent places of salvation history 3/19/14 2
The Neomalthusianism of Captain Kirk 3/10/14 2
The Worst Kind of Hobby 2/16/14 2
Admiration and the Spiritual Couch Potato 12/12/13 2
Merry Christmas, You Miserable Pagan! 12/5/13 2
Gratitude and Joy 10/16/13 2
The birthplace of Dietrich von Hildebrand 10/12/13 2
Opening Wide the Doors of the Field Hospital 10/9/13 2
Has Pope Francis Gone Too Far? 9/14/13 2
Key differences between Catholic and leftist ideas of social justice 9/2/13 2
How do we DO personalism? 8/27/13 2
God and Man at EMU 8/12/13 2
The moral seriousness of Miss Bates 7/25/13 2
Examining Your Examination of Conscience 7/19/13 2
Von Hildebrand conference underway 7/15/13 2
Two new items for my case against “unprincipled forgiveness” 6/8/13 2
My Personalist Mother 5/12/13 2
Promoting justice 4/7/13 2
Renewing the Church and restoring her tarnished image 3/17/13 2
On the Pseudo-Obvious 3/11/13 2
Jerzy Kluger and Karol Wojtyla 3/4/13 2
Passive aggression is not a synonym for non-violent resistance 1/6/13 2
Thoughts on Period of Adjustment 12/22/12 2
Chambers vs. Podhoretz on the nature of the battle 12/19/12 2
Back and Forth 11/18/12 2
Coming Soon: Love and Self-Esteem in English! 11/2/12 2
Lies, the Empty Chair, and the Rejection of God 10/29/12 2
Peter 10/15/12 2
Personalist meditation of the day 9/10/12 2
Mother Teresa and personal graces 9/5/12 2
Edith Stein, Jewess, Carmelite nun, phenomenologist, personalist, feminist, patroness 8/10/12 2
C. S. Lewis on Forgiveness 8/1/12 2
von Hildebrand, St. Francis and St. Benedict 7/14/12 2
Population Problems (even in the Islamic World) 6/17/12 2
A Recovering Luddite Looks at the Internet 6/14/12 2
Kierkegaard Goes to Walmart 6/7/12 2
The post-modern loss of truth 6/1/12 2
About being under the circumstances 5/14/12 2
Misery and Earthly Optimism 5/7/12 2
A passing thought on hoarding 5/7/12 2
Procreation and Human Dignity in the Philippines, or What About the Hard Cases? 5/3/12 2
Von Hildebrand’s view of love 4/19/12 2
Phenomenology and the art of persuasion 3/20/12 2
A priest lays out the wrong of the HHS mandate 3/6/12 2
What is “Totalitarian” and Totalitarianism? Is the USA really moving to become a totalitarian state? 3/4/12 2
Solidarity 2/8/12 2
Moral confusion run amok 1/27/12 2
A personalist approach to the Pro-life cause 1/23/12 2
Memory and identity 1/10/12 2
A personalist President? 1/2/12 2
Celebration for the Religious and the Secular Man 12/26/11 2
Self-preoccupation not necessarily selfish 12/1/11 2
Von Hildebrand’s joy in truth 11/17/11 2
In Defense of Negativity 10/27/10 2
119th birthday of Edith Stein 10/12/10 2
Is love not enough? 9/24/10 2
The personalist significance of involuntary emotions 9/17/10 2
Legion of Christ taken to task 5/3/10 2
Religion of Peace? 5/1/10 2
Ayn Rand’s false philosophy 2/9/10 2
Gift and grateful striving: Personalist Insight of the Day (PID) 1/29/10 2
The curse and the gift of being Irish 1/29/10 2
Mugged by the ultrasound 1/22/10 2
Between the knockers and boosters of modern culture 1/7/10 2
The marriage debt 12/21/09 2
Cloning and the right to ignorance 12/4/09 2
Criticizing modernity 12/3/09 2
Personalism in education administration 11/17/09 2
The big difference between Mother Teresa and Mao Tse Tung 10/19/09 2
Newman on perfection 9/29/09 2
Stevenson’s wrath 8/13/09 2
Ronda Chervin on Anger 8/7/09 2
Anger, passivity, bureaucracy 8/4/09 2
Bishop Sheen on sex and marriage 7/2/09 2
Secret Faults 6/7/09 2
What is the Church, according to the NT? 5/5/21 1
Quick takes on the role of laity in the Church 9/16/20 1
How would a lay association help? 6/20/20 1
Newman the personalist 10/7/19 1
Back in the saddle 7/4/19 1
Confusing papal documents 5/21/19 1
Ministry of Presence 6/28/18 1
Do “Nice Guys” Finish Last? 4/30/18 1
Is a well still a well if it runs dry? 4/3/18 1
Are We Supposed to Flatter God? 3/28/18 1
When Your Mother Forgets Who You Are 3/16/18 1
Are Boundaries Christian? Part Two 3/2/18 1
What is accompaniment? Part 2 1/29/18 1
Puppy Love and the Weight of Shame 12/14/17 1
Margaret Sanger: How Did She Get That Way? 12/5/17 1
Are parents “more important” than their children? 11/15/17 1
Just Virtue Signaling? 10/30/17 1
“Do you think we’re worse off? That we suffer too much?” 8/2/17 1
Uju Ekeocha Shows the Way 7/17/17 1
A gift of grace along the way 7/16/17 1
A key difference between objective and subjective truth 7/12/17 1
The gift of the ordinary 7/11/17 1
Love by the puzzle pieces 7/6/17 1
Geeks and the Love of God, Part Two: Theology is Not Faith 6/9/17 1
Error Has No Rights? 5/31/17 1
Please stop defining love as self-giving! 5/20/17 1
There’s truth, and then there’s Truth: A Mother’s Day reflection 5/14/17 1
Pain and Suffering: Couldn’t God have figured out some other way? 5/2/17 1
The Autonomy Argument: Conclusion 4/25/17 1
When Friendship Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Part 2 3/2/17 1
Staring Down History 1/27/17 1
Where Did I Go Wrong? 1/18/17 1
A Strange Season for Resolutions 12/31/16 1
How the Light gets in 12/24/16 1
On Not Growing Weary in Well-Doing 12/21/16 1
Imitation Diversity 11/27/16 1
The Alongside Woman on Your Screen 11/1/16 1
Tolkien against allegory 10/17/16 1
One Weird Trick for Fixing What Ails Your Family Life! 9/27/16 1
Egotism or Altruism? (Hint: It’s a trick question.) 8/28/16 1
Maybe Everything We Know is Wrong. 7/16/16 1
First impressions of the new papal exhortation: it’s very personalistic 4/8/16 1
Renewing masculinity without forgetting the gains of feminism 1/27/16 1
“Money Does Not Change You; It Only Unmasks You” (and other thoughts on the Powerball jackpot) 1/12/16 1
Pesonalist reflections on the papal visit 10/7/15 1
The duty to show emotion 7/22/15 1
Wojtyla on fatherhood, part I 7/14/15 1
Yesterday’s Feast Day of the Patron Saint of Everyday Life 6/27/15 1
Where’s the repentance? 6/15/15 1
All true charity is a personal encounter of equals in need 5/27/15 1
Wellness and pain 5/16/15 1
Violent mothers are a big part of the problem (mea culpa!) 4/29/15 1
Are We Going Soft? 3/26/15 1
Self-donation and something else key about love 2/14/15 1
A Divorce and Two Weddings 1/24/15 1
We need a spirituality for the neglected side of the master/slave hermeneutic 1/15/15 1
The Weary World Rejoices 12/15/14 1
The Trouble with Gurus 11/9/14 1
Factions 10/20/14 1
How I Spent My Autumn Vacation 10/2/14 1
About shaking the dust from our sandals 9/25/14 1
“Soft Addictions” 9/13/14 1
Truth and mercy in human experience 9/6/14 1
Life and death in a look 8/2/14 1
A Benedictine way of philosophy 7/12/14 1
Conversational sins 7/11/14 1
Modesty and Other Skirmishes: Reassessing the Battle Lines 7/3/14 1
Telling the truth about ourselves 5/29/14 1
No way out but through 2/12/14 1
More Things in Heaven and Earth 1/28/14 1
Q & A with Jacques Philippe 11/29/13 1
The personalism of Pope John XXIII 11/15/13 1
Solemn Nonsense: A How-To Guide 10/25/13 1
Towards a Spirituality of Unknown Variables 10/1/13 1
On the problem of overlooking not-beautiful women 7/9/13 1
It’s Here! 6/6/13 1
Legal recognition of same sex relations will not lead to more monogamy, but less 3/21/13 1
Papa Francisco 3/14/13 1
Person, office, freedom, duty 2/11/13 1
A long post about self-assertion as a moral call 1/22/13 1
Spiritual abuse 1/16/13 1
Children are the fruit, not the product of marriage 1/9/13 1
Patient waiting 12/4/12 1
Endings and Beginnings: The Liturgical Year and the Fullness of Joy 12/1/12 1
Liberty rests on spirituality 11/24/12 1
Anti-Spontaneity 11/2/12 1
SEALS, Cowboys, and Little Tykes 10/7/12 1
Two former Muslims; two ways of opposing Islamism 9/18/12 1
Whom shall we serve? God or Government? 9/6/12 1
Modesty glasses? 8/10/12 1
The west won’t be saved by good politics and sound ideas 8/6/12 1
Two things I dislike 8/4/12 1
A nun uses TOB to critique (unseen) soft porn pop movie 7/7/12 1
Grains of Truth 7/2/12 1
Questions, Answers, and Mystery 6/29/12 1
Symptoms of Deeper Problems in Muslim Theocracies (as in Western Democracies) 6/19/12 1
An atheist converts in a very personalist way 6/18/12 1
The Transcendent and the Practical Perspectives on Life—I 3/29/12 1
The World of Work and the World of Leisure 3/26/12 1
What’s wrong with opining 3/21/12 1
The Hunger Games 3/20/12 1
The JP II generation 3/8/12 1
Joy in the Midst of Sorrow 2/26/12 1
Deceit and coercion: different means, same end 2/21/12 1
Christianity in the news 2/7/12 1
Reflections on silence 2/5/12 1
And three for Yuval Levin! 1/30/12 1
Three cheers for Bishop Olmsted! 1/29/12 1
Embodiment 1/25/12 1
Patience is a Virtue 1/13/12 1
Human Freedom 1/4/12 1
Genuine Religion and Conventional Religion in the Current Season 12/30/11 1
Urbi et Orbi 12/26/11 1
Vaclav Havel dies at 75 12/18/11 1
Medieval woman philosopher to be named Doctor of the Church 12/16/11 1
What about God offends? 12/6/11 1
The effects of thinking the unthinkable 11/5/11 1
Public morality and the common good 10/18/11 1
Paternalism in the Hippocratic Oath 11/15/10 1
Mildred Jefferson, heroine for life 11/11/10 1
The number 223 10/26/10 1
Cleansed but not saved 10/17/10 1
Weigel on the sex scandals in the Church 3/29/10 1
What is criticism? 3/26/10 1
Conflating toughness and bullying 2/10/10 1
Christmas reading and listening recommendations 12/26/09 1
Moral bankruptcy among the elites 10/19/09 1
Another frowned-upon emotion 10/12/09 1
More on ideology 9/29/09 1
What’s wrong with ideology? 9/24/09 1
Who will we stand with? 9/17/09 1
The rising cult of experts 9/12/09 1
Suggested weekend reading 8/7/09 1
Emptiness 7/23/09 1
Recommended weekend reading and listening 7/10/09 1
The Stoning of Soraya M. 7/5/09 1
Abortion survivor story 6/23/09 1
But are we free? Five questions 6/20/09 1
Prudishness 6/7/09 1
What is prudishness? 6/6/09 1
Audio and video coming soon! 6/5/09 1
A manifesto for parents with kids in school 2/19/22 0
New course offering for local young adults 2/12/22 0
Thoughts at Sunday Mass 2/6/22 0
Room to live and be and act together 2/5/22 0
Structural reform isn’t “rupture”. On the contrary. 2/5/22 0
Authority in the Church 8/13/21 0
Roots and reforms 5/23/21 0
Free our faces! 5/1/21 0
The difference between slaves and brothers 11/12/20 0
Who is competent? 11/4/20 0
Who decides? 10/19/20 0
Clericalism is the air we breath 9/15/20 0
Before we join a movement, let’s get our moral concepts straight 6/6/20 0
Unite and conquer 6/5/20 0
Let’s envision the rebuild as we face the collapse 5/27/20 0
Some debts can only be paid with gratitude and sacrifice 5/25/20 0
Disburden bishops; empower the laity 5/24/20 0
The true antidote to corruption 11/29/19 0
Feeling goodness 10/23/19 0
Justice entails due distribution of power 9/3/19 0
Never Look Away: head and shoulders above the norm 7/22/19 0
To be human, a corporate body needs a soul and vice versa 7/14/19 0
Why is sex sacred? 7/9/19 0
The difference between accompaniment and discipleship 7/6/19 0
Distinction and complementarity between laity and clergy in the early Church 5/22/19 0
Conscience and “original truth” 5/7/19 0
Missing the master/slave dynamic 5/1/19 0
Theology of the Body Symposium in The Netherlands 3/5/19 0
The logic of presumptions 9/18/18 0
Rationale for a lay awakening 9/2/18 0
Tracking the Person 6/30/18 0
Human Effort: What’s It For? 6/30/18 0
The Trouble with Religious Art 6/24/18 0
Racking Up Points, Missing the Point. 6/18/18 0
Who Is My Neighbour? 6/18/18 0
Has David Brooks been reading The Personalist Project? 6/15/18 0
Our Enemies, Our Selves. 6/14/18 0
“Drowning Evil in an Abundance of Good” 6/6/18 0
Right handling of wrong 6/5/18 0
No Such Thing as Normal 5/31/18 0
Jesus and the Twelve Stumblebums 5/21/18 0
Out of the abundance of the heart 5/21/18 0
Why “Mens Sana in Corpore Whatever” is Worth Dumping: or, The Four Sayings of Uncle Larry 5/11/18 0
What is the new paradigm? Why do we need it? 5/11/18 0
Law and judgment in the new paradigm 5/11/18 0
Seeing Bodies, Seeing Persons 4/26/18 0
Jesus, model of resistance to manipulation 3/19/18 0
New file photo 3/14/18 0
Boundaries and Carrying Your Brother’s Cross 3/12/18 0
Choosing the Life I Have 2/19/18 0
Port Authority Personalism 2/5/18 0
Pro- or Anti-Bubble? 2/3/18 0
Women, Work, and the Mommy Wars 1/30/18 0
Subjectivity in antiquity 1/29/18 0
The Most Personalist Time of the Year 12/28/17 0
The Gift of Myrrh: Grief and God-With-Us at Christmas 12/22/17 0
“Lead us not into translations.” 12/15/17 0
How Controlling Can You Get, Margaret Sanger? 12/2/17 0
Imposed vs Organic Identity: “The Sabbath is made for Man, not Man for the Sabbath” 11/29/17 0
The Attractiveness of Intentional Community 11/29/17 0
Like It’s My Job 11/24/17 0
The Cowardly Servant and the Gift of Self 11/23/17 0
Don’t Use People As Props 9/27/17 0
All Those Invisible Heroes 9/18/17 0
Salt and Light: Why we need a consistent pro-life ethic 9/15/17 0
The Measure of Mission 9/11/17 0
Immigration: Beyond Knee Jerks 8/25/17 0
The Trouble with Pharisees 8/1/17 0
Zen and the Christian Personalist 7/27/17 0
Evie Peoples, Rest in Peace 7/5/17 0
Who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? 6/16/17 0
Geeks and the Love of God, Part One: Debate is Not Love 6/9/17 0
The Sandals of Whatever 5/17/17 0
A Daughter’s Love: The Story Behind an Apostrophe 5/12/17 0
The Political is Personal is Political 5/4/17 0
The Personal is Political is Personal 5/4/17 0
An Open Letter to Bill Nye the Science Guy 4/26/17 0
The Autonomy Argument 4/25/17 0
Broken for Us 4/20/17 0
The Person She Used to Be? 4/12/17 0
A passing thought 4/11/17 0
Can Men and Women Be Friends? Part One 4/6/17 0
The case for a new model for male/female relationships 3/23/17 0
Rosa Pich, Widowed Mother of Eighteen 3/15/17 0
Preaching to the Choir 3/13/17 0
A Cat-shaped Carrot 3/9/17 0
A Lent of Tiny Thorns 2/24/17 0
Weaponizing People 2/17/17 0
Tin Pacifists and the Search for Meaning 2/16/17 0
Intersectional, Shmintersectional 2/13/17 0
Ownership of wrongdoing key to reconciliation 2/9/17 0
The Ethical Activist 2/8/17 0
Overheard at the Coffee Shop 1/31/17 0
Carve a Tunnel of Hope 1/23/17 0
Consequence Free 1/12/17 0
Contra the Dubia, part 2 12/6/16 0
Unlikely Pearls of Wisdom, and How Not to Miss Them 11/17/16 0
Why is Adulting Suddenly So Hard? 10/25/16 0
Penitence the sign of conversion 10/20/16 0
Real problems with the soul mate concept 10/1/16 0
An atheist and a believer imagine meeting God 9/28/16 0
Remember, Man, That Thou Art Meat? 9/15/16 0
The prodigal repented 9/12/16 0
7 Quick Takes: Help for the Personalist Tech Addict 9/2/16 0
Subjectivity and Sts. Monica and Augustine 8/27/16 0
Faith, Disney, and the Power of Negative Thinking 8/22/16 0
Nineteenth century women way ahead of the curve 8/19/16 0
“He Fit the Description.” 8/15/16 0
Beyond God as Boss Man 8/6/16 0
Amoris Laetitia, chapter four 7/23/16 0
Middlemarch 7/4/16 0
An idea for summer reading—especially if you have any connection to addiction 7/3/16 0
Alone in meaning, yet a collective 6/20/16 0
Amoris Laetitia, 76 - 88: the goodness keeps coming 6/16/16 0
The kernel of evil 6/15/16 0
Thresholds 6/2/16 0
The Increasingly Blurry Line between Animal and Person 5/24/16 0
“Devious Dialogue” 5/19/16 0
What Are Miracles For? 5/15/16 0
“Loving Your Children’s Freedom” and other impossible ideals 5/9/16 0
Grieving the loss of self-government 5/7/16 0
Nobody but a bunch of mothers! 5/5/16 0
Amoris Laetitia, 38: What it’s really all about 4/23/16 0
Amoris Laetitia, 19-27:  Enter the master/slave hermeneutic 4/9/16 0
Amoris Laetitia, paragraphs 12 - 18 4/9/16 0
“Live blogging” my reading of Amoris Laetitia 4/9/16 0
Faces, fear, and free expression 4/7/16 0
The resurrection of the body 3/28/16 0
Approaching the passion personalistically 3/26/16 0
Facebook’s Foray into Emotional Response 3/22/16 0
Benedict speaks, and sounds a lot like Francis 3/21/16 0
Attention to the individual need 3/14/16 0
“Stop calling breastfeeding ‘natural”? 3/9/16 0
“You needed to know what it felt like.” 3/8/16 0
Up from slavery 3/6/16 0
The true self wants to be known 3/2/16 0
Spotlight on victims 3/1/16 0
Relationality and the meaning of human life 2/28/16 0
Transcending the body 2/27/16 0
The Power of “Offering It Up” 2/20/16 0
Queen Esther, the implicit personalist 2/18/16 0
On the CDC and the Bizarrification of Nature 2/14/16 0
“What is this you have done?” 1/31/16 0
About That “Do Unto Others” Part 1/20/16 0
A personalist take on the euthanasia temptation 1/16/16 0
Encasement and the person 1/5/16 0
Irreverant Images? 1/1/16 0
FFMD (Fragment From My Desktop), number 2: Paul Claudel on destructive self-absorption 12/31/15 0
Fragments from my desktop, number 1: Marriage and modernity 12/30/15 0
Becoming Robots? 12/23/15 0
The dialogue within 12/17/15 0
“Stepping back” the paradoxical beginning of love and communion 12/16/15 0
About That Vatican Light Show 12/14/15 0
Dr. Louise, Personalist Extraordinaire 11/23/15 0
The Women of ISIS and the Oscillating Line between Good and Evil 11/22/15 0
Being a bad witness. Lessons from the lamentation tradition 11/19/15 0
Ectogenic Pregnancy and other Terrible Ideas 11/15/15 0
Cardinal Schönborn, my teacher: Lesson 1 11/12/15 0
“What Do You Want Me to Do for You?” 11/10/15 0
Life and dreams 10/28/15 0
“What do you want me to do for you?” 10/25/15 0
There it is again: master/slave vs. mutual love and service 10/23/15 0
Threats to the person, threats to the family 10/14/15 0
Falling for robots 10/12/15 0
Bring back repentance 10/12/15 0
An Afternoon with Pope Francis 9/23/15 0
Receiving charity is greater than self-sufficiency 9/21/15 0
A Seamless Garment of Evil 8/20/15 0
Anniversary of Newman’s entry into Reality 8/11/15 0
Posting and reposting 8/10/15 0
Defanging Dual-Action Buzzwords 7/29/15 0
The master/slave dynamic in marriage, discretely illustrated 7/28/15 0
Wrestling with the divine 7/8/15 0
The vulnerable will suffer most, as always 6/27/15 0
About personalism being the key to interpreting Pope Francis, I was right 6/25/15 0
The interpersonal dimension of belief 6/23/15 0
Nature’s abundance, our need 6/22/15 0
More on the receptive feature of love 6/18/15 0
Misunderstanding love 6/17/15 0
RIP Elizabeth Eliot 6/16/15 0
Happy Fathers’ Day, Abba! 6/13/15 0
Right and wrong modes of influence 6/13/15 0
In order to give, we first have to have received 6/8/15 0
Kristin Lavransdatter’s Crisis Pregnancy and Pope Francis’ Year of Mercy 6/1/15 0
“There are only persons.” 5/21/15 0
Conditions in relationships 5/19/15 0
Football and moral formation 5/18/15 0
Moms’ Night Out (a belated movie review) 5/8/15 0
Raising children 5/7/15 0
Relativism in a nutshell 5/4/15 0
Modern goods for the family [UPDATED with link] 4/28/15 0
Guns and Church 4/26/15 0
Moses and Jonah and Planned Parenthood and ISIS 4/18/15 0
Manipulating God 4/11/15 0
Programs for groups are not the same as love 4/7/15 0
The Enemy of My Enemy 3/21/15 0
To judge or not to judge? 3/20/15 0
New initiative for members: Read with Us 3/19/15 0
Capital punishment 3/12/15 0
Martyrs and Migrants 3/4/15 0
Self-Improvement: You’re Doing It Wrong 2/26/15 0
The Magna Carta and modernity: it’s about limits on power 2/13/15 0
Breaking the Seal, Soaking the Rich, Killing the Goose 1/31/15 0
Liberalism in religion and morals vs. liberalism in temper and mode 1/28/15 0
Nonviolent resistance is not another term for pacifism 1/19/15 0
What is Value Blindness? 1/16/15 0
What needs interpreting? 1/12/15 0
Christmas fail 1/9/15 0
What is Reverence, Exactly? 1/6/15 0
3 more personalist themes for Christmas 1/6/15 0
On the sixth day of Christmas: Royalty 12/30/14 0
New Year’s Resolutions and the Limits of Tools and Techniques 12/30/14 0
On the fifth day of Christmas: universal and particular vocations 12/30/14 0
On the fourth day of Christmas: focus on the family 12/28/14 0
Day 3: Concreteness and historicity 12/27/14 0
12 personalist themes for 12 days of Christmas: Day 2, Embodiment 12/26/14 0
12 personalist themes for 12 days Christmas:  Day 1, Expectation 12/25/14 0
Happy Holydays! 12/22/14 0
Random personal encounter 12/10/14 0
Why we need fraternity maybe even more than charity 11/11/14 0
What’s at Stake 11/2/14 0
The death of a priest and a personalist 10/26/14 0
“High-Quality Love”: Four Questions to Ask Yourself 10/24/14 0
The Synod: Caricature and Reality 10/13/14 0
Please Don’t Be a Human Ping Pong Ball! 8/20/14 0
Heavenly Arithmetic and Supernatural Paradoxes 8/14/14 0
Trayvon Martin and the Children of Iraq (and Syria, and Gaza, and Central America) 8/11/14 0
Do Personalism and Business Mix? 8/4/14 0
Dietrich von Hildebrand and Victor Frankl 8/4/14 0
A conversation with John F. Crosby 7/28/14 0
DHLP Call for Papers on the Power of Beauty 7/23/14 0
Lois Lerner, Archie Bunker, and the Roving Liturgical Critic 7/13/14 0
Newman and Caesar 6/24/14 0
“Dialogue” and “Encounter”: Archbishop Cordileone Reclaims a Couple of Buzzwords 6/19/14 0
Pity the Veterans? 5/25/14 0
Evangelii Gaudium: The Rest of the Story 5/19/14 0
Montgomery on modernity 4/25/14 0
“A Tower that will Pierce the Clouds” 4/10/14 0
RIP Ann Kiemel 3/10/14 0
Surprise Diagnosis 2/27/14 0
Over-protection cripples children 2/20/14 0
Some relationships come with terms built-in 2/17/14 0
Giving Joy a Bad Name 1/6/14 0
The HHS, Then and Now 12/27/13 0
Moral problems aren’t solved by better economic policies 12/19/13 0
To be fully human is to be more than human 12/1/13 0
Jacques Philippe in Ann Arbor, Part Two 11/21/13 0
Jacques Philippe in Ann Arbor(!) 11/17/13 0
Self Esteem without Selfishness: Now Available! 11/11/13 0
On owning and not owning our property 10/14/13 0
The ferocity of goodness 10/1/13 0
Efficiency for What? 9/5/13 0
Kicking the Anasthesia Habit 7/11/13 0
Alice von Hildebrand on love and suffering 6/17/13 0
Tenderness watch 6/14/13 0
Belonging and identity 6/14/13 0
Why You Shouldn’t Worry About What Pope Francis Might Do Next 6/1/13 0
The body matters 5/26/13 0
Beyond God as Errand Boy 5/26/13 0
What’ right with feminism 5/23/13 0
Social Media and the Crocodile in the Bedroom 5/21/13 0
Death and Providence 5/20/13 0
Kierkegaard turns 200 5/8/13 0
What is the most fundamental human right? Part 2: The Right to Life? 5/4/13 0
What is the most fundamental human right? Part 1: Rights vs. Obligations 5/4/13 0
Personalists in practice 5/2/13 0
Good words from Archbishop Chaput 4/20/13 0
The ethics of organ donation 4/18/13 0
The cause of truth is the cause of life 4/14/13 0
Good and truth unify, evil and untruth divide 4/12/13 0
What leads to atheism? 3/22/13 0
On the need to recover our sense of the value of persons as ends in themselves 3/18/13 0
Tidbit from an interview with Cardinal George 3/3/13 0
The empty chair 2/28/13 0
New translations deepen the personal dimension of the Mass 2/26/13 0
The Glorious Conformity of the Children of God? 2/22/13 0
Sperm banks and father deprivation 2/22/13 0
Leg logos (aka legos) 2/22/13 0
The Christian Personalism of J.H. Newman 2/20/13 0
Eternal Security and Personhood 2/15/13 0
“Catholic Witness in a Nation Divided” CDs Available 2/8/13 0
On the drastic need to recover a sense of what it means to be a lady 2/5/13 0
Being pro-abortion out of love (plus some lies) 1/24/13 0
A short post about moralizing 1/23/13 0
Person class underway. Do join in! 1/13/13 0
Deep and high knowledge comes through love 1/11/13 0
Freedom of Religion vs. Freedom of Worship: More than Semantics 1/10/13 0
Stop and think 1/1/13 0
Eternal promises kept in time 12/17/12 0
Prayer Bloopers!  Better Make the Kids Write ‘Em Out! 12/12/12 0
Light of Advent in the dark of December 12/10/12 0
Prayer and Fasting: Taking it Personally 12/7/12 0
Fair Game: Enlarging your Religious Compartment 12/1/12 0
JPII on Different Kinds of Human Needs:  Illustrations from Popular Music 11/28/12 0
Cardinal Dolan, pastoral personalist 11/13/12 0
Wisdom from Wittaker Chambers 11/7/12 0
Working Through the Problem of Evil in Personal Experience 11/5/12 0
What’s wrong with Obamacare 10/26/12 0
A personalist view of literature 10/19/12 0
The value of “values” language 10/5/12 0
An Extraordinary Grace 10/4/12 0
Escape from personality 10/2/12 0
Roger Kimball is relatively correct, but not absolutely so 9/24/12 0
Humor and Joy 9/15/12 0
The Pope goes to Lebanon 9/14/12 0
Sound advice about the single life starts with personalism 9/14/12 0
Persons present in their works 9/8/12 0
Covering injustice serves to increase it 7/31/12 0
Six minutes on the greatness of Plato 7/20/12 0
What are you doing for religious freedom? 6/27/12 0
Honest associations 6/16/12 0
Hoffer the personalist 6/12/12 0
Philadelphia chosen for next World Meeting of Families 6/3/12 0
The power of the pure 5/29/12 0
Confusions of the day in the SSM debate 5/23/12 0
Misery and Genuine Hope 5/21/12 0
Misery and Pessimism 5/13/12 0
Bumping up against a bogus notion of charity 5/9/12 0
The Transcendent and the Practical Perspectives on LIfe—II 4/25/12 0
Gabriel Marcel 4/24/12 0
Søren Kierkegaard 4/24/12 0
Dietrich von Hildebrand 4/24/12 0
John Henry Newman 4/24/12 0
Karol Wojtyla / John Paul II 4/24/12 0
Alice von Hildebrand comparing compassion, pity and mercy 4/5/12 0
The interior sufferings of Our Lord 4/5/12 0
Kierkegaard in search of solitary individuals 4/2/12 0
Fr. Barron’s take on “The Hunger Games” 3/28/12 0
Purposeful emptiness 3/15/12 0
Mark Steyn, secular prophet 3/8/12 0
Persons vs. Power 3/2/12 0
Blessed Are They Who Mourn 2/28/12 0
The lie underlying the culture of death 2/25/12 0
The President becomes Henry VIII 2/11/12 0
Embodiment and Morality 2/1/12 0
What Newman and Aristotle mean by the Lesbian Canon 1/21/12 0
Self-Donation 1/18/12 0
Two new personalist profiles 1/14/12 0
Freedom and Truth 1/11/12 0
After 35th Wedding Anniversary: Reflections on Fidelity 1/8/12 0
Bonhoeffer II: on the objectivity of marriage 1/5/12 0
Fr. Ker on Chesterton 12/27/11 0
Christmas links 12/23/11 0
Bonhoeffer stresses the role of human will in conjugal love 12/17/11 0
The creed as a devotional act 12/12/11 0
“Passive” virtues eminently social 12/6/11 0
Ego-centrism the root of moral indifference 11/28/11 0
The personalist view of marriage is not anti-modern 11/27/11 0
Disposing over my own existence 11/15/11 0
True simplicity 11/12/11 0
The kindness of strangers 11/12/11 0
Practical wisdom about love 11/10/11 0
Frances Chesterton, kindred spirit 10/31/11 0
Choice and borderline personality disorder 2/10/11 0
A personalist approach to Natural Family Planning 1/20/11 0
Fr. John Courtney Murray 12/29/10 0
Christmas meditation 12/24/10 0
Humbug 12/20/10 0
A feast of beauty brought to you by mind-blowing technology 12/19/10 0
Advent souls 12/18/10 0
Should we say “no” to facebook? 12/15/10 0
Persons and responsibility 12/15/10 0
The vision at the center of it all 12/13/10 0
If the body is still there, so is the person 11/11/10 0
Love and permanence 11/4/10 0
Newman’s influence 10/28/10 0
Fatiguing us into compliance 10/23/10 0
Imagining communism 10/22/10 0
121st birthday of Dietrich von Hildebrand, beautiful man 10/12/10 0
RE: Truth? Who cares? 10/10/10 0
An overwhelming argument for free will from everyone`s experience 10/9/10 0
Newman becomes Catholic 10/8/10 0
Personal bonds 10/6/10 0
The modernity of Newman 10/4/10 0
What’s wrong with this answer? 9/29/10 0
Benedict on Newman 9/25/10 0
Personalism at our founding 9/24/10 0
Education in cyberspace? 9/22/10 0
Newman Beatified today 9/19/10 0
Deliberations 9/14/10 0
Von Hildebrand conference in Rome 6/6/10 0
Karol Wojtyla, great gift to the world 5/18/10 0
Von Hildebrand conference in Rome 5/17/10 0
The enemy within 5/11/10 0
Sheena Duncan, RIP 5/8/10 0
Protecting children 5/5/10 0
Theological virtues don’t obviate the claims of natural justice 5/1/10 0
Privacy for animals 5/1/10 0
Megan McArdle on marriage 4/23/10 0
Mark Twain on marriage 4/21/10 0
Splitting the moral atom 4/13/10 0
Midlife care for the soul 4/12/10 0
Poland 4/10/10 0
Personal responsibility or paternalism? 4/10/10 0
Child brides 4/9/10 0
Hatred of the Church 4/9/10 0
Personal encounter with God the center of true faith 4/8/10 0
Power corrupts 4/8/10 0
The Dreyfus affair and clerical sex abuse 4/7/10 0
Recommended reading 4/5/10 0
Scruton on giving 4/3/10 0
Penitence 3/31/10 0
The priority of the personal in human happiness 3/30/10 0
The nanny becomes a bully 3/23/10 0
Power vs. service 3/18/10 0
The de-personalizing Legion of Christ 3/16/10 0
Christians in public 3/11/10 0
Al Qaida calls for more murder 3/7/10 0
Intimidation vs. freedom in religion 3/7/10 0
Son of Hamas fingers Allah as the source of Islamic terror 3/7/10 0
Intimacy without love: an illustration 2/28/10 0
Bill Buckley on the morality of the last days 2/27/10 0
Lenten reading 2/17/10 0
Christian and Islamic visions of love 2/15/10 0
Defeating corruption 1/26/10 0
Equality of persons 1/26/10 0
A must see documentary on person-destroying ideologies 1/24/10 0
From Pope Benedict 1/23/10 0
The Gospel of Life 1/22/10 0
Martin Luther King, Jr., personalist 1/18/10 0
What makes you suffer? 1/14/10 0
Nancy Pelosi’s Archbishop explains the meaning of freedom 1/14/10 0
The beginning of love 1/10/10 0
The Incarnation: the glorification of humanity 12/26/09 0
A sign of hope 12/24/09 0
On not wanting reality 12/17/09 0
Weigel on just war theory 12/14/09 0
Environmentalism’s assault on persons 12/12/09 0
Apprehension vs. seeing 12/9/09 0
Ecclesiastical dysfunction 12/4/09 0
Sexual revolution coming under fire from former liberals 12/2/09 0
Communion 12/2/09 0
Stigma and motivation 12/1/09 0
Von Hildebrand on gratitude 11/25/09 0
Thanksgiving as an interpersonal act 11/19/09 0
The origins of religion 11/16/09 0
An anger image 11/15/09 0
The fall of the wall 11/9/09 0
Scientific evidence for the importance of fathers 10/27/09 0
Why Benedict did what he did 10/26/09 0
Two views on children 10/21/09 0
Recommendation reading and viewing about China under Mao 10/19/09 0
Scientistic dogmatism vs. God and human dignity 10/13/09 0
Remembering two great personalists 10/12/09 0
Newman’s conversion 10/9/09 0
The goodness of lamenting 10/5/09 0
Personalism and NFP 9/25/09 0
What’s happening in Europe? 9/18/09 0
A 9/11 anniversary tribute 9/12/09 0
Bad news for religious liberty 9/12/09 0
Benjamin Franklin on anger 9/7/09 0
The first three evidences for human freedom 9/6/09 0
Are we really free?  Can we know it? 9/6/09 0
More on Christopher West 8/24/09 0
What Is Freedom? Can We choose Radically Different Lives? 8/16/09 0
Tocqueville’s definition of individualism 8/10/09 0
Persons and power 8/1/09 0
Who really inspires the political left? 7/22/09 0
The limits of central planning 7/22/09 0
What freedom is not 7/22/09 0
Reagan explains what’s wrong with socialized medicine 7/18/09 0
The failure of institutions 7/14/09 0
Women in religion 7/8/09 0
Rules of civility 7/7/09 0
Caritas in Veritate 7/7/09 0
A thought about personalism 7/2/09 0
Caritas in Veritate 7/1/09 0
Obama’s cultural identity 6/26/09 0
This is getting good reviews 6/26/09 0
New York to offer cash for ova 6/26/09 0
Grounds for a burqa ban 6/25/09 0
Pro-life question for Obama 6/24/09 0
Iranian women 6/23/09 0
Question 3: on concupiscence 6/22/09 0
Question 4: how sexual intimacy can be a revelation (and gift) of self 6/22/09 0
Forgiveness retreat 6/19/09 0
Why nothing is left of Jewish Christian Faith if we are not free 6/10/09 0
Not bragging, just marveling at the internet phenom 6/9/09 0
Violence in the Koran vs. the Old Testament 6/8/09 0
Are we free?  Are we persons? 6/7/09 0
Examples of prudishness 6/6/09 0
Obama utters a truth he defies in practice 6/4/09 0