| Title | Date | Cmts |
| 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 |
| What is the Church, according to the NT? |
5/5/21 |
1 |
| What is a Constitution? |
5/4/21 |
7 |
| Free our faces! |
5/1/21 |
0 |
| What can energize the laity? |
11/13/20 |
6 |
| The difference between slaves and brothers |
11/12/20 |
0 |
| Who is competent? |
11/4/20 |
0 |
| Who decides? |
10/19/20 |
0 |
| Two different meanings of “systemic” |
9/30/20 |
4 |
| Quick takes on the role of laity in the Church |
9/16/20 |
1 |
| Clericalism is the air we breath |
9/15/20 |
0 |
| No masks at mass, please, unless you’re sick or vulnerable |
9/3/20 |
31 |
| A timely hypothetical |
7/15/20 |
9 |
| Consider a concrete case of parish affairs |
6/24/20 |
5 |
| How would a lay association help? |
6/20/20 |
1 |
| Rebuilding after the collapse |
6/17/20 |
3 |
| Standing and misunderstanding |
6/10/20 |
9 |
| Before we join a movement, let’s get our moral concepts straight |
6/6/20 |
0 |
| Unite and conquer |
6/5/20 |
0 |
| The time is at hand |
6/5/20 |
7 |
| A podcast about Newman’s personalism |
5/28/20 |
3 |
| 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 gist of Acts 6 |
5/11/20 |
5 |
| The true antidote to corruption |
11/29/19 |
0 |
| Feeling goodness |
10/23/19 |
0 |
| Newman the personalist |
10/7/19 |
1 |
| Justice entails due distribution of power |
9/3/19 |
0 |
| Ecclesial fertility comes from a spousal relation between priest and laity |
8/27/19 |
16 |
| 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 |
| Reciprocity is a condition for achieving truth about all things personal |
7/12/19 |
6 |
| Why is the priesthood reserved for (heterosexual) men? |
7/11/19 |
3 |
| Why is sex sacred? |
7/9/19 |
0 |
| The difference between accompaniment and discipleship |
7/6/19 |
0 |
| Back in the saddle |
7/4/19 |
1 |
| The spousal love between priest and laity is meant to be concrete and personal |
5/31/19 |
8 |
| The relation between priest and laity is meant to be spousal |
5/30/19 |
2 |
| Interview with the Katholieke Niewsblad |
5/23/19 |
5 |
| Distinction and complementarity between laity and clergy in the early Church |
5/22/19 |
0 |
| Confusing papal documents |
5/21/19 |
1 |
| Conscience and “original truth” |
5/7/19 |
0 |
| Disagreeing with Weigel |
5/2/19 |
5 |
| Missing the master/slave dynamic |
5/1/19 |
0 |
| The clericalist version of mansplaining |
3/24/19 |
18 |
| Theology of the Body Symposium in The Netherlands |
3/5/19 |
0 |
| The logic of presumptions |
9/18/18 |
0 |
| We need a new principle to balance “presumption of innocence” |
9/11/18 |
3 |
| Rationale for a lay awakening |
9/2/18 |
0 |
| It’s not okay to pressure a Pope to resign |
8/31/18 |
4 |
| Money and the ecclesial status quo |
8/28/18 |
3 |
| Right handling of wrong |
6/5/18 |
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 |
| New file photo |
3/14/18 |
0 |
| About that paradigm shift |
3/11/18 |
15 |
| What do I have against Archbishop Chaput? |
3/9/18 |
2 |
| What is accompaniment? Part 2 |
1/29/18 |
1 |
| Subjectivity in antiquity |
1/29/18 |
0 |
| “Your truth” is real and important |
1/19/18 |
9 |
| What is “accompaniment”? Part 1 |
12/13/17 |
8 |
| How does the Pope see the problem? |
11/6/17 |
14 |
| A critique of Fr. Weinandy’s letter to the Pope |
11/1/17 |
21 |
| Don’t we need a coming-of-age sacrament? |
10/2/17 |
6 |
| Can an “irregular union” ever not be adulterous? |
9/25/17 |
12 |
| What do I have against modesty? |
9/8/17 |
5 |
| A gift of grace along the way |
7/16/17 |
1 |
| A key difference between objective and subjective truth |
7/12/17 |
1 |
| Thoughts on subjectivity |
7/3/17 |
3 |
| An example of what I mean by “slave side morality” |
6/13/17 |
2 |
| Please stop defining love as self-giving! |
5/20/17 |
1 |
| The difference subjectivity makes: a tiny anecdote |
5/3/17 |
13 |
| A passing thought |
4/11/17 |
0 |
| Ownership of wrongdoing key to reconciliation |
2/9/17 |
0 |
| Moving beyond the Dubia to the issue at hand |
2/6/17 |
2 |
| 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 |
| Contra the Dubia, part 2 |
12/6/16 |
0 |
| Contra the Dubia |
12/5/16 |
7 |
| More reasons to embrace the concept of soulmates |
11/21/16 |
4 |
| Subjectivity and conscience |
11/7/16 |
3 |
| A positive Christian and personalist case for belief in soul mates |
10/25/16 |
10 |
| Penitence the sign of conversion |
10/20/16 |
0 |
| Tolkien against allegory |
10/17/16 |
1 |
| Real problems with the soul mate concept |
10/1/16 |
0 |
| The idea of soul mates is not nonsense |
9/30/16 |
3 |
| An atheist and a believer imagine meeting God |
9/28/16 |
0 |
| The prodigal repented |
9/12/16 |
0 |
| Subjectivity and Sts. Monica and Augustine |
8/27/16 |
0 |
| Nineteenth century women way ahead of the curve |
8/19/16 |
0 |
| Amoris Laetitia, chapter four |
7/23/16 |
0 |
| True encounters |
7/19/16 |
2 |
| Injustice toward subjectivity |
7/14/16 |
2 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The fear of the slave |
5/27/16 |
4 |
| Amoris Laetitia, 39 - 57: The challenges are legion |
5/23/16 |
2 |
| Grieving the loss of self-government |
5/7/16 |
0 |
| Amoris Laetitia, 38: What it’s really all about |
4/23/16 |
0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| First impressions of the new papal exhortation: it’s very personalistic |
4/8/16 |
1 |
| Faces, fear, and free expression |
4/7/16 |
0 |
| Remembering the Pope of my heart and mind |
4/2/16 |
3 |
| The resurrection of the body |
3/28/16 |
0 |
| Approaching the passion personalistically |
3/26/16 |
0 |
| Benedict speaks, and sounds a lot like Francis |
3/21/16 |
0 |
| Attention to the individual need |
3/14/16 |
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 |
| Queen Esther, the implicit personalist |
2/18/16 |
0 |
| Renewing masculinity without forgetting the gains of feminism |
1/27/16 |
1 |
| FFMD, #4: Modesty and interiority |
1/23/16 |
8 |
| A personalist take on the euthanasia temptation |
1/16/16 |
0 |
| FFMD, #3: The problem of free-floating consciences |
1/9/16 |
5 |
| Encasement and the person |
1/5/16 |
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 |
| The dialogue within |
12/17/15 |
0 |
| “Stepping back” the paradoxical beginning of love and communion |
12/16/15 |
0 |
| Advent mission |
12/1/15 |
6 |
| Cardinal Schönborn, my teacher: Lesson 1 |
11/12/15 |
0 |
| Life and dreams |
10/28/15 |
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 |
| Bring back repentance |
10/12/15 |
0 |
| Pesonalist reflections on the papal visit |
10/7/15 |
1 |
| Receiving charity is greater than self-sufficiency |
9/21/15 |
0 |
| Sorting the ego, the false self, and the true self |
9/19/15 |
2 |
| Remaining strangers |
9/16/15 |
5 |
| Some essential differences between Christian and Islamic views of feminine sexuality |
8/17/15 |
3 |
| Anniversary of Newman’s entry into Reality |
8/11/15 |
0 |
| Posting and reposting |
8/10/15 |
0 |
| The master/slave dynamic in writing |
7/31/15 |
2 |
| It’s my evil too |
7/30/15 |
2 |
| The master/slave dynamic in marriage, discretely illustrated |
7/28/15 |
0 |
| The duty to show emotion |
7/22/15 |
1 |
| A newer, more dangerous kind of atheism |
7/18/15 |
12 |
| Wojtyla on fatherhood, part I |
7/14/15 |
1 |
| Wrestling with the divine |
7/8/15 |
0 |
| Unhappy 4th |
7/4/15 |
12 |
| Moral goodness doesn’t come through punishment |
6/30/15 |
12 |
| The vulnerable will suffer most, as always |
6/27/15 |
0 |
| The power of the Supreme Court |
6/26/15 |
9 |
| It’s not about loyalty; it’s about receptivity |
6/25/15 |
2 |
| 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 |
| Where’s the repentance? |
6/15/15 |
1 |
| Right and wrong modes of influence |
6/13/15 |
0 |
| Forgiveness from the heart |
6/10/15 |
6 |
| In order to give, we first have to have received |
6/8/15 |
0 |
| Overcoming clericalism |
6/6/15 |
11 |
| A few thoughts on the Duggar case |
6/3/15 |
2 |
| All true charity is a personal encounter of equals in need |
5/27/15 |
1 |
| Conditions in relationships |
5/19/15 |
0 |
| Football and moral formation |
5/18/15 |
0 |
| Wellness and pain |
5/16/15 |
1 |
| Opposites of freedom |
5/11/15 |
3 |
| Raising children |
5/7/15 |
0 |
| Relativism in a nutshell |
5/4/15 |
0 |
| Facing dysfunction |
5/3/15 |
7 |
| What is violence? |
4/30/15 |
6 |
| Violent mothers are a big part of the problem (mea culpa!) |
4/29/15 |
1 |
| Modern goods for the family [UPDATED with link] |
4/28/15 |
0 |
| Needs become graces; wounds heal |
4/13/15 |
4 |
| The prodigal liberality of the father |
4/10/15 |
13 |
| Programs for groups are not the same as love |
4/7/15 |
0 |
| How should we respond to the controversy in Indiana? |
3/31/15 |
9 |
| To judge or not to judge? |
3/20/15 |
0 |
| New initiative for members: Read with Us |
3/19/15 |
0 |
| Theology the body captured in doll conversion story |
3/19/15 |
3 |
| Capital punishment |
3/12/15 |
0 |
| Conscience interference starts young |
3/1/15 |
3 |
| Repentance and forgiveness aren’t gotten without vulnerability |
2/23/15 |
6 |
| Self-donation and something else key about love |
2/14/15 |
1 |
| The Magna Carta and modernity: it’s about limits on power |
2/13/15 |
0 |
| The Pope strikes a personalist chord once again |
2/6/15 |
2 |
| Liberalism in religion and morals vs. liberalism in temper and mode |
1/28/15 |
0 |
| Was the Pope mocking large families? |
1/20/15 |
12 |
| Nonviolent resistance is not another term for pacifism |
1/19/15 |
0 |
| We need a spirituality for the neglected side of the master/slave hermeneutic |
1/15/15 |
1 |
| What needs interpreting? |
1/12/15 |
0 |
| Christmas fail |
1/9/15 |
0 |
| 3 more personalist themes for Christmas |
1/6/15 |
0 |
| On the sixth day of Christmas: Royalty |
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 |
| Attending to the interior |
12/21/14 |
5 |
| Random personal encounter |
12/10/14 |
0 |
| Some power struggles are good and necessary |
12/4/14 |
4 |
| The problem with “consenting adults” |
11/21/14 |
7 |
| Cutting ties |
11/19/14 |
8 |
| Why we need fraternity maybe even more than charity |
11/11/14 |
0 |
| One of love’s opposites: Contempt |
11/9/14 |
2 |
| Interpreting the Pope through personalism |
11/5/14 |
6 |
| The death of a priest and a personalist |
10/26/14 |
0 |
| Personalism and the Judeo-Christian tradition |
10/11/14 |
20 |
| A call for radical, embodied love |
10/6/14 |
7 |
| On speaking what we feel |
9/26/14 |
10 |
| About shaking the dust from our sandals |
9/25/14 |
1 |
| If it doesn’t feel like love, it isn’t |
9/19/14 |
3 |
| Truth and mercy in human experience |
9/6/14 |
1 |
| Testing for soundness in relationships |
8/21/14 |
11 |
| Not whether I meant to offend, but whether I did offend: that is the question |
8/7/14 |
9 |
| Dietrich von Hildebrand and Victor Frankl |
8/4/14 |
0 |
| Life and death in a look |
8/2/14 |
1 |
| Searching for community |
7/30/14 |
105 |
| A conversation with John F. Crosby |
7/28/14 |
0 |
| DHLP Call for Papers on the Power of Beauty |
7/23/14 |
0 |
| Tenderness and gallantry |
7/22/14 |
2 |
| Cardinal Dolan disappoints |
7/15/14 |
26 |
| A Benedictine way of philosophy |
7/12/14 |
1 |
| Conversational sins |
7/11/14 |
1 |
| Modesty and misogyny |
7/7/14 |
19 |
| What’s wrong with defining love as an act of will? |
7/1/14 |
3 |
| The opposite of nostalgia |
6/24/14 |
2 |
| Newman and Caesar |
6/24/14 |
0 |
| Thoughts on modesty abroad, in three vignettes |
6/8/14 |
32 |
| Two personalist popes canonized |
4/25/14 |
7 |
| Montgomery on modernity |
4/25/14 |
0 |
| A memoir of spiritual abuse and recovery |
3/20/14 |
21 |
| The potent places of salvation history |
3/19/14 |
2 |
| Teaching kids about sex |
3/12/14 |
4 |
| RIP Ann Kiemel |
3/10/14 |
0 |
| Over-protection cripples children |
2/20/14 |
0 |
| Some relationships come with terms built-in |
2/17/14 |
0 |
| No way out but through |
2/12/14 |
1 |
| Love is unconditional; relationships have terms |
2/7/14 |
6 |
| Other people are the way to grace |
1/28/14 |
11 |
| How to rid yourself of gall |
1/17/14 |
4 |
| Recovering Christmas joy |
12/23/13 |
8 |
| Moral problems aren’t solved by better economic policies |
12/19/13 |
0 |
| A Sinners Guide for the Self-righteous |
12/4/13 |
41 |
| To be fully human is to be more than human |
12/1/13 |
0 |
| The personalism of Pope John XXIII |
11/15/13 |
1 |
| Being in the heart of the church |
10/23/13 |
15 |
| On owning and not owning our property |
10/14/13 |
0 |
| The birthplace of Dietrich von Hildebrand |
10/12/13 |
2 |
| The ferocity of goodness |
10/1/13 |
0 |
| On minding our own beeswax and letting the Pope be Pope |
9/24/13 |
48 |
| Key differences between Catholic and leftist ideas of social justice |
9/2/13 |
2 |
| How do we DO personalism? |
8/27/13 |
2 |
| Dr. Allender on abuse and recovery |
8/21/13 |
11 |
| Layers of being |
8/16/13 |
5 |
| Self-possession precedes self-giving |
8/9/13 |
23 |
| The many superabundant goods of an apple tree |
7/23/13 |
3 |
| Separating sex and love |
7/20/13 |
8 |
| Anniversary interview with Alice von Hildebrand |
7/17/13 |
5 |
| Von Hildebrand conference underway |
7/15/13 |
2 |
| Fake wisdom |
7/10/13 |
4 |
| On the problem of overlooking not-beautiful women |
7/9/13 |
1 |
| 8 Reminders for fathers of marriageable daughters |
6/25/13 |
11 |
| Alice von Hildebrand on love and suffering |
6/17/13 |
0 |
| Tenderness watch |
6/14/13 |
0 |
| Belonging and identity |
6/14/13 |
0 |
| Two new items for my case against “unprincipled forgiveness” |
6/8/13 |
2 |
| Mercies hurt |
6/4/13 |
3 |
| Interview with Hannah Arendt |
6/1/13 |
4 |
| The body matters |
5/26/13 |
0 |
| What’ right with feminism |
5/23/13 |
0 |
| A short thought about suffering |
5/18/13 |
5 |
| Heaven is a person |
5/9/13 |
3 |
| Tenderness and maturity |
5/7/13 |
7 |
| Personalists in practice |
5/2/13 |
0 |
| Cults and co-dependency: how to detect the virus |
4/27/13 |
5 |
| Not all pursuit of truth is good |
4/22/13 |
4 |
| 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 |
| Promoting justice |
4/7/13 |
2 |
| A few personalist insights about conjugal love |
3/27/13 |
10 |
| What leads to atheism? |
3/22/13 |
0 |
| Legal recognition of same sex relations will not lead to more monogamy, but less |
3/21/13 |
1 |
| On the need to recover our sense of the value of persons as ends in themselves |
3/18/13 |
0 |
| Renewing the Church and restoring her tarnished image |
3/17/13 |
2 |
| Beauty ever ancient, ever new |
3/13/13 |
3 |
| The sudden moral inversion |
3/7/13 |
5 |
| 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 |
| Sperm banks and father deprivation |
2/22/13 |
0 |
| God’s will and ours: how they meet |
2/17/13 |
10 |
| A conversation at the gym about obedience vs. creativity |
2/15/13 |
4 |
| The evangelical power of beauty |
2/14/13 |
4 |
| Our decisions belong to us; we are responsible for them |
2/12/13 |
47 |
| Person, office, freedom, duty |
2/11/13 |
1 |
| Mental injustices an obstacle to communion |
2/9/13 |
5 |
| 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 |
| A long post about self-assertion as a moral call |
1/22/13 |
1 |
| Von Hildebrand and the health of the soul |
1/18/13 |
7 |
| Spiritual abuse |
1/16/13 |
1 |
| Personal impediments to faith |
1/16/13 |
4 |
| Person class underway. Do join in! |
1/13/13 |
0 |
| Deep and high knowledge comes through love |
1/11/13 |
0 |
| Passive aggression is not a synonym for non-violent resistance |
1/6/13 |
2 |
| Stop and think |
1/1/13 |
0 |
| Thoughts on Period of Adjustment |
12/22/12 |
2 |
| To medicalize evil is to deny personal dignity |
12/20/12 |
6 |
| Chambers vs. Podhoretz on the nature of the battle |
12/19/12 |
2 |
| Eternal promises kept in time |
12/17/12 |
0 |
| Light of Advent in the dark of December |
12/10/12 |
0 |
| Patient waiting |
12/4/12 |
1 |
| Good and evil in the human heart |
11/26/12 |
8 |
| Liberty rests on spirituality |
11/24/12 |
1 |
| The metaphysics of marriage |
11/15/12 |
5 |
| Cardinal Dolan, pastoral personalist |
11/13/12 |
0 |
| Wisdom from Wittaker Chambers |
11/7/12 |
0 |
| The contraception crisis |
10/31/12 |
3 |
| What’s wrong with Obamacare |
10/26/12 |
0 |
| Celebrating two great lives |
10/12/12 |
8 |
| Personalism the key to interpreting Vatican II |
10/11/12 |
3 |
| The value of “values” language |
10/5/12 |
0 |
| Roger Kimball is relatively correct, but not absolutely so |
9/24/12 |
0 |
| Contra Fr. Barron on modern philosophy |
9/22/12 |
9 |
| Two former Muslims; two ways of opposing Islamism |
9/18/12 |
1 |
| The Pope goes to Lebanon |
9/14/12 |
0 |
| Sound advice about the single life starts with personalism |
9/14/12 |
0 |
| How should a Catholic university treat gay alumni? |
9/11/12 |
19 |
| Personalist meditation of the day |
9/10/12 |
2 |
| Persons present in their works |
9/8/12 |
0 |
| Whom shall we serve? God or Government? |
9/6/12 |
1 |
| Mother Teresa and personal graces |
9/5/12 |
2 |
| Catholic social teaching and false equivalencies |
9/4/12 |
3 |
| Do husbands have authority over their wives? |
8/29/12 |
65 |
| A glaring instance of asking for unprincipled forgiveness |
8/22/12 |
4 |
| Cardinal Dolan disappoints |
8/15/12 |
7 |
| Mark Shea jumps the shark on Paul Ryan |
8/13/12 |
18 |
| Edith Stein, Jewess, Carmelite nun, phenomenologist, personalist, feminist, patroness |
8/10/12 |
2 |
| Modesty glasses? |
8/10/12 |
1 |
| Are wives supposed to submit to their husbands? |
8/8/12 |
40 |
| The west won’t be saved by good politics and sound ideas |
8/6/12 |
1 |
| Two things I dislike |
8/4/12 |
1 |
| Covering injustice serves to increase it |
7/31/12 |
0 |
| Turning the tables |
7/23/12 |
16 |
| Six minutes on the greatness of Plato |
7/20/12 |
0 |
| Justice and truth |
7/17/12 |
7 |
| von Hildebrand, St. Francis and St. Benedict |
7/14/12 |
2 |
| Gaps between theory and practice |
7/12/12 |
33 |
| St. Benedict and phenomenology |
7/11/12 |
29 |
| Forgiveness and dysfunction |
7/8/12 |
25 |
| A nun uses TOB to critique (unseen) soft porn pop movie |
7/7/12 |
1 |
| The concept of unprincipled forgiveness |
6/27/12 |
45 |
| What are you doing for religious freedom? |
6/27/12 |
0 |
| Blankenhorn succumbs to gay marriage advocacy |
6/23/12 |
8 |
| An atheist converts in a very personalist way |
6/18/12 |
1 |
| Honest associations |
6/16/12 |
0 |
| Hoffer the personalist |
6/12/12 |
0 |
| Personal dignity and belonging |
6/8/12 |
9 |
| Philadelphia chosen for next World Meeting of Families |
6/3/12 |
0 |
| The post-modern loss of truth |
6/1/12 |
2 |
| The power of the pure |
5/29/12 |
0 |
| Confusions of the day in the SSM debate |
5/23/12 |
0 |
| To speak or not to speak: a dilemma in the debate surrounding SSM |
5/21/12 |
17 |
| Cardinal George sounds a strong warning |
5/15/12 |
12 |
| About being under the circumstances |
5/14/12 |
2 |
| Bumping up against a bogus notion of charity |
5/9/12 |
0 |
| Faith: real and concrete and human |
5/8/12 |
4 |
| A passing thought on hoarding |
5/7/12 |
2 |
| Teach your children well |
5/2/12 |
10 |
| What The Hunger Games miss |
4/20/12 |
53 |
| Von Hildebrand’s view of love |
4/19/12 |
2 |
| Alice von Hildebrand comparing compassion, pity and mercy |
4/5/12 |
0 |
| The interior sufferings of Our Lord |
4/5/12 |
0 |
| What’s wrong with opining |
3/21/12 |
1 |
| The Hunger Games |
3/20/12 |
1 |
| To restore marriage, teach truth |
3/18/12 |
4 |
| Purposeful emptiness |
3/15/12 |
0 |
| Mark Steyn, secular prophet |
3/8/12 |
0 |
| The JP II generation |
3/8/12 |
1 |
| A priest lays out the wrong of the HHS mandate |
3/6/12 |
2 |
| Persons vs. Power |
3/2/12 |
0 |
| Holy cosmetics |
2/26/12 |
8 |
| The lie underlying the culture of death |
2/25/12 |
0 |
| The President becomes Henry VIII |
2/11/12 |
0 |
| Who or what cares? |
2/8/12 |
5 |
| 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 |
| Moral confusion run amok |
1/27/12 |
2 |
| Ronda Chervin’s conversion story |
1/24/12 |
10 |
| Flight from reality |
1/23/12 |
32 |
| A personalist approach to the Pro-life cause |
1/23/12 |
2 |
| Conjugal love is misunderstood if its gift character is overlooked |
1/19/12 |
5 |
| Two new personalist profiles |
1/14/12 |
0 |
| Interfaith statement on marriage issued |
1/12/12 |
37 |
| A thought about sanctimony |
1/10/12 |
15 |
| Memory and identity |
1/10/12 |
2 |
| Von Hildebrand’s vision in a word: Reverence |
1/6/12 |
6 |
| A personalist President? |
1/2/12 |
2 |
| Fr. Ker on Chesterton |
12/27/11 |
0 |
| Urbi et Orbi |
12/26/11 |
1 |
| Unto us a child is given |
12/25/11 |
3 |
| Christmas links |
12/23/11 |
0 |
| Bonhoeffer stresses the role of human will in conjugal love |
12/17/11 |
0 |
| Peter Hitchens’ eulogy for his brother |
12/17/11 |
3 |
| Medieval woman philosopher to be named Doctor of the Church |
12/16/11 |
1 |
| Alice von Hildebrand on boredom |
12/12/11 |
3 |
| Individualism not quite the answer |
12/9/11 |
8 |
| “Passive” virtues eminently social |
12/6/11 |
0 |
| What about God offends? |
12/6/11 |
1 |
| Self-preoccupation not necessarily selfish |
12/1/11 |
2 |
| Want personality? Live the Liturgy. |
11/30/11 |
4 |
| Ego-centrism the root of moral indifference |
11/28/11 |
0 |
| The personalist view of marriage is not anti-modern |
11/27/11 |
0 |
| Personhood and the Kingship of Christ |
11/20/11 |
4 |
| Von Hildebrand’s joy in truth |
11/17/11 |
2 |
| Is it all Hegel’s fault? |
11/16/11 |
14 |
| Disposing over my own existence |
11/15/11 |
0 |
| Liturgy and Personality |
11/14/11 |
3 |
| The kindness of strangers |
11/12/11 |
0 |
| Practical wisdom about love |
11/10/11 |
0 |
| Frances Chesterton, kindred spirit |
10/31/11 |
0 |
| Public morality and the common good |
10/18/11 |
1 |
| Validating feelings |
10/16/11 |
3 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Benedict on condoms |
12/13/10 |
29 |
| Mildred Jefferson, heroine for life |
11/11/10 |
1 |
| 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 |
| 119th birthday of Edith Stein |
10/12/10 |
2 |
| 121st birthday of Dietrich von Hildebrand, beautiful man |
10/12/10 |
0 |
| Newman becomes Catholic |
10/8/10 |
0 |
| Personal bonds |
10/6/10 |
0 |
| Sofia Tolstoy and feminism |
10/4/10 |
4 |
| 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 |
| Is love not enough? |
9/24/10 |
2 |
| Newman Beatified today |
9/19/10 |
0 |
| Deliberations |
9/14/10 |
0 |
| It is not good for man to be alone |
7/10/10 |
7 |
| Resisting the objectification women |
6/10/10 |
3 |
| 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 |
| Legion of Christ taken to task |
5/3/10 |
2 |
| Religion of Peace? |
5/1/10 |
2 |
| 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 |
| Husbands, love your wives |
4/18/10 |
3 |
| 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 personification of evil |
3/29/10 |
3 |
| John Allen on Benedict’s handling of the issue |
3/29/10 |
14 |
| Weigel on the sex scandals in the Church |
3/29/10 |
1 |
| What is criticism? |
3/26/10 |
1 |
| What is conscience |
3/25/10 |
52 |
| 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 |
| Satanism in the Vatican |
3/10/10 |
3 |
| Freedom has to come from within |
3/9/10 |
4 |
| 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 |
| Josef Seifert calls on PAV President to step down |
3/5/10 |
4 |
| Bill Buckley on the morality of the last days |
2/27/10 |
0 |
| Intimacy without love damages the spirit |
2/23/10 |
23 |
| Kleist’s take on modernity |
2/18/10 |
5 |
| Lenten reading |
2/17/10 |
0 |
| Christian and Islamic visions of love |
2/15/10 |
0 |
| Conflating toughness and bullying |
2/10/10 |
1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Mugged by the ultrasound |
1/22/10 |
2 |
| 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 moral vacuum in western world makes Islam appealing to women |
1/8/10 |
3 |
| Christmas reading and listening recommendations |
12/26/09 |
1 |
| The Incarnation: the glorification of humanity |
12/26/09 |
0 |
| A sign of hope |
12/24/09 |
0 |
| The marriage debt |
12/21/09 |
2 |
| 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 |
| The role of philosophy |
11/19/09 |
3 |
| Thanksgiving as an interpersonal act |
11/19/09 |
0 |
| Personalism in education administration |
11/17/09 |
2 |
| The origins of religion |
11/16/09 |
0 |
| An anger image |
11/15/09 |
0 |
| Great movies about life behind the wall |
11/9/09 |
3 |
| The fall of the wall |
11/9/09 |
0 |
| Continuing the TOB discussion |
11/9/09 |
45 |
| Christopher West breaks silence; answers critics |
10/27/09 |
70 |
| 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 |
| Moral bankruptcy among the elites |
10/19/09 |
1 |
| Recommendation reading and viewing about China under Mao |
10/19/09 |
0 |
| The big difference between Mother Teresa and Mao Tse Tung |
10/19/09 |
2 |
| Scientistic dogmatism vs. God and human dignity |
10/13/09 |
0 |
| Remembering two great personalists |
10/12/09 |
0 |
| Another frowned-upon emotion |
10/12/09 |
1 |
| Podles on anger and the virtuous life [updated] |
10/9/09 |
4 |
| Newman’s conversion |
10/9/09 |
0 |
| Two must-read articles on sexuality and porn |
10/4/09 |
3 |
| Weigel at Immaculata |
10/1/09 |
16 |
| Newman on perfection |
9/29/09 |
2 |
| Personalism and NFP |
9/25/09 |
0 |
| What’s happening in Europe? |
9/18/09 |
0 |
| The incommensurability of justice and mercy |
9/17/09 |
6 |
| Who will we stand with? |
9/17/09 |
1 |
| A 9/11 anniversary tribute |
9/12/09 |
0 |
| Bad news for religious liberty |
9/12/09 |
0 |
| The rising cult of experts |
9/12/09 |
1 |
| Benjamin Franklin on anger |
9/7/09 |
0 |
| The incipient personalism of romanticism? |
9/7/09 |
11 |
| What divides us? |
9/4/09 |
7 |
| More on Christopher West |
8/24/09 |
0 |
| A child psychologist’s insights on anger |
8/14/09 |
20 |
| Anniversary of the death of Newman |
8/11/09 |
4 |
| Tocqueville’s definition of individualism |
8/10/09 |
0 |
| Ronda Chervin on Anger |
8/7/09 |
2 |
| Suggested weekend reading |
8/7/09 |
1 |
| Anger, passivity, bureaucracy |
8/4/09 |
2 |
| Where’s the wrath? |
8/2/09 |
59 |
| Persons and power |
8/1/09 |
0 |
| Emptiness |
7/23/09 |
1 |
| 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 |
| De-personalizing, cultish tendencies in the Church |
7/13/09 |
11 |
| A personalist pet peeve |
7/13/09 |
6 |
| Great anti-Jansenist quote |
7/10/09 |
12 |
| Recommended weekend reading and listening |
7/10/09 |
1 |
| New light on prudishness |
7/8/09 |
5 |
| Women in religion |
7/8/09 |
0 |
| Truth as inter-personal breathing space |
7/7/09 |
3 |
| Intimacy and emotional dryness |
7/7/09 |
3 |
| Rules of civility |
7/7/09 |
0 |
| Caritas in Veritate |
7/7/09 |
0 |
| Self-possession and the call to love |
7/6/09 |
3 |
| The Stoning of Soraya M. |
7/5/09 |
1 |
| Looking for philosophical leads |
7/2/09 |
8 |
| Bishop Sheen on sex and marriage |
7/2/09 |
2 |
| A thought about personalism |
7/2/09 |
0 |
| Courtship |
7/1/09 |
19 |
| Caritas in Veritate |
7/1/09 |
0 |
| Obama’s cultural identity |
6/26/09 |
0 |
| This is getting good reviews |
6/26/09 |
0 |
| Shop Class as Soulcraft |
6/26/09 |
11 |
| 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 |
| Abortion survivor story |
6/23/09 |
1 |
| Another burqa photo |
6/23/09 |
3 |
| Iranian women |
6/23/09 |
0 |
| Should burquas be banned? |
6/22/09 |
8 |
| Fr. Geiger’s latest on the West debate |
6/20/09 |
103 |
| Forgiveness retreat |
6/19/09 |
0 |
| Closed posts, open discussion |
6/13/09 |
21 |
| The problem of innocence |
6/11/09 |
19 |
| Not bragging, just marveling at the internet phenom |
6/9/09 |
0 |
| Conjugal rights |
6/9/09 |
24 |
| Violence in the Koran vs. the Old Testament |
6/8/09 |
0 |
| Secret Faults |
6/7/09 |
2 |
| Examples of prudishness |
6/6/09 |
0 |
| What is prudishness? |
6/6/09 |
1 |
| Audio and video coming soon! |
6/5/09 |
1 |
| The problem of projection |
6/4/09 |
11 |
| Obama utters a truth he defies in practice |
6/4/09 |
0 |
