| 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 |
| Tracking the Person |
6/30/18 |
0 |
| Human Effort: What’s It For? |
6/30/18 |
0 |
| Ministry of Presence |
6/28/18 |
1 |
| 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 |
| A Twist on “Mary, Did You Know?” |
5/4/18 |
2 |
| Do “Nice Guys” Finish Last? |
4/30/18 |
1 |
| Seeing Bodies, Seeing Persons |
4/26/18 |
0 |
| Good News about Judgment Day |
4/18/18 |
3 |
| “Rejoice and Be Glad”: No Way Around It |
4/7/18 |
3 |
| Is a well still a well if it runs dry? |
4/3/18 |
1 |
| Are We Supposed to Flatter God? |
3/28/18 |
1 |
| Jesus, model of resistance to manipulation |
3/19/18 |
0 |
| When Your Mother Forgets Who You Are |
3/16/18 |
1 |
| New file photo |
3/14/18 |
0 |
| Boundaries and Carrying Your Brother’s Cross |
3/12/18 |
0 |
| About that paradigm shift |
3/11/18 |
15 |
| What do I have against Archbishop Chaput? |
3/9/18 |
2 |
| A God of Low Standards? The Ins and Outs of Mixed Motivations |
3/8/18 |
4 |
| Are Boundaries Christian? Part Two |
3/2/18 |
1 |
| Are Boundaries Christian? Part One |
2/27/18 |
3 |
| Choosing the Life I Have |
2/19/18 |
0 |
| A Personalist Theory of Magic |
2/19/18 |
9 |
| “God is realistic.” |
2/9/18 |
2 |
| Truths and Consequences |
2/9/18 |
2 |
| Port Authority Personalism |
2/5/18 |
0 |
| Pro- or Anti-Bubble? |
2/3/18 |
0 |
| Women, Work, and the Mommy Wars (continued.) |
1/30/18 |
25 |
| Women, Work, and the Mommy Wars |
1/30/18 |
0 |
| 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 |
| An Unlikely Pope Francis Moment |
1/11/18 |
3 |
| You’re Not Special: A Lesson in Love |
1/11/18 |
2 |
| 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 |
| Puppy Love and the Weight of Shame |
12/14/17 |
1 |
| What is “accompaniment”? Part 1 |
12/13/17 |
8 |
| Margaret Sanger: How Did She Get That Way? |
12/5/17 |
1 |
| 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 |
| Why Do People Commit Sexual Assault? |
11/18/17 |
13 |
| Of Potstickers and Excessive Objectivism |
11/16/17 |
22 |
| Are parents “more important” than their children? |
11/15/17 |
1 |
| Pro-Euthanasia “Caregivers”? |
11/15/17 |
2 |
| Weep With Those Who Weep |
11/8/17 |
2 |
| 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 |
| Just Virtue Signaling? |
10/30/17 |
1 |
| Oy, Oy, Oy: The Personal, the Political and #metoo |
10/20/17 |
3 |
| The Master-Slave Dynamic and the Price of Eggs |
10/19/17 |
2 |
| Let Her Yes be Yes: #MeToo and the Cost of “No” |
10/19/17 |
4 |
| Not About Fr. James Martin, But… |
10/11/17 |
12 |
| Don’t we need a coming-of-age sacrament? |
10/2/17 |
6 |
| Don’t Use People As Props |
9/27/17 |
0 |
| Can an “irregular union” ever not be adulterous? |
9/25/17 |
12 |
| Protective purity: sex and the fear of use |
9/20/17 |
7 |
| 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 |
| What do I have against modesty? |
9/8/17 |
5 |
| It Could Always Be Worse? |
9/1/17 |
8 |
| Immigration: Beyond Knee Jerks |
8/25/17 |
0 |
| Greeks, barbarians, and Nazis: a Response to Charlottesville |
8/18/17 |
13 |
| The Trouble with Jack Chick |
8/7/17 |
3 |
| “Do you think we’re worse off? That we suffer too much?” |
8/2/17 |
1 |
| The Trouble with Pharisees |
8/1/17 |
0 |
| Zen and the Christian Personalist |
7/27/17 |
0 |
| Could there be a Zen Personalism? |
7/27/17 |
2 |
| Uju Ekeocha Shows the Way |
7/17/17 |
1 |
| A gift of grace along the way |
7/16/17 |
1 |
| One More for Evie |
7/12/17 |
3 |
| 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 |
| Evie Peoples, Rest in Peace |
7/5/17 |
0 |
| Thoughts on subjectivity |
7/3/17 |
3 |
| The Joys of WorkoutAgony® |
6/24/17 |
3 |
| The Wisdom to Know the Difference |
6/17/17 |
4 |
| Who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? |
6/16/17 |
0 |
| In Defense of Snowflakes |
6/14/17 |
2 |
| An example of what I mean by “slave side morality” |
6/13/17 |
2 |
| Geeks and the Love of God, Part One: Debate is Not Love |
6/9/17 |
0 |
| Geeks and the Love of God, Part Two: Theology is Not Faith |
6/9/17 |
1 |
| Error Has No Rights? |
5/31/17 |
1 |
| An attempt to articulate what bothers me about “You might not want to go to Heaven,” by Matt Walsh |
5/26/17 |
10 |
| Please stop defining love as self-giving! |
5/20/17 |
1 |
| The Sandals of Whatever |
5/17/17 |
0 |
| There’s truth, and then there’s Truth: A Mother’s Day reflection |
5/14/17 |
1 |
| 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 |
| The difference subjectivity makes: a tiny anecdote |
5/3/17 |
13 |
| Pain and Suffering: Couldn’t God have figured out some other way? |
5/2/17 |
1 |
| An Open Letter to Bill Nye the Science Guy |
4/26/17 |
0 |
| The Autonomy Argument: Conclusion |
4/25/17 |
1 |
| The Autonomy Argument |
4/25/17 |
0 |
| Broken for Us |
4/20/17 |
0 |
| My Flying Lesson: In Defense of Fun |
4/17/17 |
2 |
| The Person She Used to Be? |
4/12/17 |
0 |
| A passing thought |
4/11/17 |
0 |
| Can Men and Women Be Friends? Part Two |
4/6/17 |
3 |
| Can Men and Women Be Friends? Part One |
4/6/17 |
0 |
| How Not to Fix the Healthcare Mess |
4/5/17 |
3 |
| Gaslighting and its Near Relations |
3/29/17 |
3 |
| 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 |
| Be Like Chema: In Memoriam José María Postigo |
3/6/17 |
3 |
| When Friendship Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Part 2 |
3/2/17 |
1 |
| When Friendship Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Part 1 |
3/2/17 |
2 |
| A Lent of Tiny Thorns |
2/24/17 |
0 |
| The Power of Prayer? |
2/22/17 |
2 |
| Weaponizing People |
2/17/17 |
0 |
| Tin Pacifists and the Search for Meaning |
2/16/17 |
0 |
| Intersectional, Shmintersectional |
2/13/17 |
0 |
| Polyester Robes |
2/10/17 |
2 |
| Ownership of wrongdoing key to reconciliation |
2/9/17 |
0 |
| The Ethical Activist |
2/8/17 |
0 |
| Moving beyond the Dubia to the issue at hand |
2/6/17 |
2 |
| Overheard at the Coffee Shop |
1/31/17 |
0 |
| Staring Down History |
1/27/17 |
1 |
| Hopeless But Not Serious: Standing up to evil without losing your peace |
1/24/17 |
4 |
| Carve a Tunnel of Hope |
1/23/17 |
0 |
| Where Did I Go Wrong? |
1/18/17 |
1 |
| Consequence Free |
1/12/17 |
0 |
| Not the Way I Would Run an Incarnation |
1/5/17 |
2 |
| A Strange Season for Resolutions |
12/31/16 |
1 |
| Sometimes Baby Steps Don’t Cut It |
12/29/16 |
2 |
| How the Light gets in |
12/24/16 |
1 |
| On Not Growing Weary in Well-Doing |
12/21/16 |
1 |
| Looking for Love in the Manger |
12/17/16 |
3 |
| The Banks and Beauty Parlors of Grandma Europe |
12/11/16 |
9 |
| Rethinking Free Will? |
12/8/16 |
4 |
| 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 |
| Using Conversational Techniques on People: Abomination or Common Sense? |
12/5/16 |
6 |
| Contra the Dubia |
12/5/16 |
7 |
| Imitation Diversity |
11/27/16 |
1 |
| Catholic Relief Services, Cash for the Homeless, and the Needs of Migrants: Unmasking False Dilemmas |
11/23/16 |
3 |
| More reasons to embrace the concept of soulmates |
11/21/16 |
4 |
| Unlikely Pearls of Wisdom, and How Not to Miss Them |
11/17/16 |
0 |
| Personalism at the graveside |
11/7/16 |
6 |
| Subjectivity and conscience |
11/7/16 |
3 |
| The Alongside Woman on Your Screen |
11/1/16 |
1 |
| Why is Adulting Suddenly So Hard? |
10/25/16 |
0 |
| A positive Christian and personalist case for belief in soul mates |
10/25/16 |
10 |
| About those Secular Pro-Lifers |
10/21/16 |
3 |
| Penitence the sign of conversion |
10/20/16 |
0 |
| Tolkien against allegory |
10/17/16 |
1 |
| Me? A Whitewashed Sepulcher? |
10/13/16 |
5 |
| 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 |
| One Weird Trick for Fixing What Ails Your Family Life! |
9/27/16 |
1 |
| Remember, Man, That Thou Art Meat? |
9/15/16 |
0 |
| The prodigal repented |
9/12/16 |
0 |
| Mrs. Jellyby vs. St. Teresa of Calcutta |
9/8/16 |
5 |
| 7 Quick Takes: Help for the Personalist Tech Addict |
9/2/16 |
0 |
| Egotism or Altruism? (Hint: It’s a trick question.) |
8/28/16 |
1 |
| Subjectivity and Sts. Monica and Augustine |
8/27/16 |
0 |
| Faith, Disney, and the Power of Negative Thinking |
8/22/16 |
0 |
| “The Sadness We Bring To A Diagnosis Should Not Become Our Child’s” |
8/19/16 |
7 |
| Nineteenth century women way ahead of the curve |
8/19/16 |
0 |
| Blocked? Me? Or, My Journey from Righteous Indignation to a Modicum of Self-Awareness |
8/17/16 |
2 |
| “He Fit the Description.” |
8/15/16 |
0 |
| Naaman the Syrian and Me: On Finally Becaming a Novena Person |
8/10/16 |
2 |
| The Problem of Language: The Gift of Babel |
8/7/16 |
14 |
| Beyond God as Boss Man |
8/6/16 |
0 |
| The Problem of Language: The Desire for Communion |
8/5/16 |
2 |
| Jesus is Not Your Buddy, But… |
8/1/16 |
6 |
| Taking That First (Excruciatingly Obvious) Step |
7/25/16 |
7 |
| Amoris Laetitia, chapter four |
7/23/16 |
0 |
| True encounters |
7/19/16 |
2 |
| Maybe Everything We Know is Wrong. |
7/16/16 |
1 |
| Injustice toward subjectivity |
7/14/16 |
2 |
| Modesty and the Ontological Shaming of Both Women and Men |
7/8/16 |
6 |
| Nitty-Gritty Applications of the “Universal Destination of Goods” |
7/5/16 |
2 |
| Middlemarch |
7/4/16 |
0 |
| An idea for summer reading—especially if you have any connection to addiction |
7/3/16 |
0 |
| Aging Gracefully (Or Not) |
6/28/16 |
5 |
| Pride, Humility, and Self-knowledge |
6/24/16 |
2 |
| Alone in meaning, yet a collective |
6/20/16 |
0 |
| Seven Quick Takes: Most Marriages are Invalid? |
6/17/16 |
32 |
| 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 |
| Thresholds |
6/2/16 |
0 |
| A seriously bad title |
5/28/16 |
7 |
| The fear of the slave |
5/27/16 |
4 |
| The Increasingly Blurry Line between Animal and Person |
5/24/16 |
0 |
| Amoris Laetitia, 39 - 57: The challenges are legion |
5/23/16 |
2 |
| “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 |
| “College Kids Say the Darndest Things”: Some Further Thoughts |
4/28/16 |
2 |
| 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 |
| The Limits of “Identifying As” |
4/18/16 |
6 |
| The Overregulated Soul |
4/16/16 |
2 |
| 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 |
| Check Your Privilege? An Obnoxious Mantra’s Grains of Truth |
4/5/16 |
5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| On Pink Elephants and Jen Fulwiler’s Conversion Story |
2/3/16 |
5 |
| “What is this you have done?” |
1/31/16 |
0 |
| Renewing masculinity without forgetting the gains of feminism |
1/27/16 |
1 |
| FFMD, #4: Modesty and interiority |
1/23/16 |
8 |
| Empathy, photography, and perception: Thoughts on the public display of graphic abortion images |
1/20/16 |
2 |
| About That “Do Unto Others” Part |
1/20/16 |
0 |
| A personalist take on the euthanasia temptation |
1/16/16 |
0 |
| “Money Does Not Change You; It Only Unmasks You” (and other thoughts on the Powerball jackpot) |
1/12/16 |
1 |
| FFMD, #3: The problem of free-floating consciences |
1/9/16 |
5 |
| Hanging Onto Your Free Will (All Day Long) |
1/8/16 |
4 |
| 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 |
| The Good that Depends on Us: Jacques Philippe Meets Flylady |
12/30/15 |
4 |
| 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 |
| Everyday Forgiveness |
12/4/15 |
8 |
| Advent mission |
12/1/15 |
6 |
| 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 |
| A lack of symmetry between insisting on repentance and pleading for forgiveness |
11/5/15 |
5 |
| Smiling at Jesus |
11/3/15 |
4 |
| Life and dreams |
10/28/15 |
0 |
| In Praise of the Inefficient Care of Persons |
10/25/15 |
4 |
| “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 |
| A real life example of the theology of the body |
10/17/15 |
16 |
| 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 |
| Love among the ruins |
10/9/15 |
7 |
| The Limits of Teachable Moments |
10/8/15 |
3 |
| Pesonalist reflections on the papal visit |
10/7/15 |
1 |
| The Post-Francis Effect |
9/29/15 |
3 |
| An Afternoon with Pope Francis |
9/23/15 |
0 |
| 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 |
| Impersonal Activism |
9/11/15 |
8 |
| A Seamless Garment of Evil |
8/20/15 |
0 |
| 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 |
| Defanging Dual-Action Buzzwords |
7/29/15 |
0 |
| The master/slave dynamic in marriage, discretely illustrated |
7/28/15 |
0 |
| Virtue Privilege? |
7/23/15 |
6 |
| The duty to show emotion |
7/22/15 |
1 |
| Laudato Si: Beyond the talking points |
7/20/15 |
3 |
| 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 |
| Living on Borrowed Social Capital |
6/30/15 |
3 |
| Moral goodness doesn’t come through punishment |
6/30/15 |
12 |
| Yesterday’s Feast Day of the Patron Saint of Everyday Life |
6/27/15 |
1 |
| 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 |
| Happy Fathers’ Day, Abba! |
6/13/15 |
0 |
| Right and wrong modes of influence |
6/13/15 |
0 |
| Forgiveness from the heart |
6/10/15 |
6 |
| Venting and Lamenting |
6/9/15 |
2 |
| In order to give, we first have to have received |
6/8/15 |
0 |
| Accepting “the Given” |
6/7/15 |
8 |
| Overcoming clericalism |
6/6/15 |
11 |
| Bruce Jenner and the Primordial Given |
6/4/15 |
11 |
| A few thoughts on the Duggar case |
6/3/15 |
2 |
| Kristin Lavransdatter’s Crisis Pregnancy and Pope Francis’ Year of Mercy |
6/1/15 |
0 |
| All true charity is a personal encounter of equals in need |
5/27/15 |
1 |
| “There are only persons.” |
5/21/15 |
0 |
| Conditions in relationships |
5/19/15 |
0 |
| Football and moral formation |
5/18/15 |
0 |
| Wellness and pain |
5/16/15 |
1 |
| Ralph Martin and the Language of Personal Decision |
5/15/15 |
6 |
| Opposites of freedom |
5/11/15 |
3 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Guns and Church |
4/26/15 |
0 |
| Moses and Jonah and Planned Parenthood and ISIS |
4/18/15 |
0 |
| Needs become graces; wounds heal |
4/13/15 |
4 |
| Manipulating God |
4/11/15 |
0 |
| 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 |
| Are We Going Soft? |
3/26/15 |
1 |
| 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 |
| Theology the body captured in doll conversion story |
3/19/15 |
3 |
| Mr. Crisco and the Feelings Chart |
3/13/15 |
3 |
| Capital punishment |
3/12/15 |
0 |
| Martyrs and Migrants |
3/4/15 |
0 |
| Conscience interference starts young |
3/1/15 |
3 |
| Self-Improvement: You’re Doing It Wrong |
2/26/15 |
0 |
| Repentance and forgiveness aren’t gotten without vulnerability |
2/23/15 |
6 |
| Martyrs on Video |
2/18/15 |
6 |
| Mad at Mass |
2/16/15 |
22 |
| Beyond Male and Female? |
2/15/15 |
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 |
| Jane Austen, Call Your Office |
2/8/15 |
2 |
| The Pope strikes a personalist chord once again |
2/6/15 |
2 |
| Breaking the Seal, Soaking the Rich, Killing the Goose |
1/31/15 |
0 |
| Starting a virtual reading circle |
1/30/15 |
4 |
| Liberalism in religion and morals vs. liberalism in temper and mode |
1/28/15 |
0 |
| A Divorce and Two Weddings |
1/24/15 |
1 |
| Redesigned website |
1/23/15 |
2 |
| Was the Pope mocking large families? |
1/20/15 |
12 |
| With such friends, who needs enemies? |
1/19/15 |
2 |
| Nonviolent resistance is not another term for pacifism |
1/19/15 |
0 |
| What is Value Blindness? |
1/16/15 |
0 |
| We need a spirituality for the neglected side of the master/slave hermeneutic |
1/15/15 |
1 |
| Parting ways |
1/12/15 |
4 |
| 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 |
| Attending to the interior |
12/21/14 |
5 |
| The Weary World Rejoices |
12/15/14 |
1 |
| Random personal encounter |
12/10/14 |
0 |
| Assessment Run Amok |
12/7/14 |
2 |
| Some power struggles are good and necessary |
12/4/14 |
4 |
| Who Cares What You Think? |
11/22/14 |
2 |
| The problem with “consenting adults” |
11/21/14 |
7 |
| Cutting ties |
11/19/14 |
8 |
| What would Newman say about the Synod? |
11/17/14 |
18 |
| Death with What? Brittany Maynard, Veterans Day, and the lure of the pseudo-obvious |
11/12/14 |
2 |
| Why we need fraternity maybe even more than charity |
11/11/14 |
0 |
| One of love’s opposites: Contempt |
11/9/14 |
2 |
| The Trouble with Gurus |
11/9/14 |
1 |
| Interpreting the Pope through personalism |
11/5/14 |
6 |
| What’s at Stake |
11/2/14 |
0 |
| Is all confusion evil? A Socratic thought. |
10/28/14 |
6 |
| The death of a priest and a personalist |
10/26/14 |
0 |
| “High-Quality Love”: Four Questions to Ask Yourself |
10/24/14 |
0 |
| Factions |
10/20/14 |
1 |
| The Synod: Caricature and Reality |
10/13/14 |
0 |
| Personalism and the Judeo-Christian tradition |
10/11/14 |
20 |
| A call for radical, embodied love |
10/6/14 |
7 |
| How I Spent My Autumn Vacation |
10/2/14 |
1 |
| On speaking what we feel |
9/26/14 |
10 |
| About shaking the dust from our sandals |
9/25/14 |
1 |
| The Trouble with Hagiography |
9/20/14 |
5 |
| The unity of objectivity and subjectivity in emotion |
9/20/14 |
13 |
| If it doesn’t feel like love, it isn’t |
9/19/14 |
3 |
| “Soft Addictions” |
9/13/14 |
1 |
| Too Much, Too Little, Too Late |
9/6/14 |
26 |
| Truth and mercy in human experience |
9/6/14 |
1 |
| What Midlife Crisis is Really About |
9/3/14 |
6 |
| Pitfalls of Asserting Gender Roles |
8/28/14 |
5 |
| Becoming Who You Are, Even If You’re Not Sure Who That Is |
8/27/14 |
7 |
| Testing for soundness in relationships |
8/21/14 |
11 |
| 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 |
| Not whether I meant to offend, but whether I did offend: that is the question |
8/7/14 |
9 |
| Do Personalism and Business Mix? |
8/4/14 |
0 |
| 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 |
| Juan Antonio and the Personalist Manager |
7/25/14 |
2 |
| DHLP Call for Papers on the Power of Beauty |
7/23/14 |
0 |
| Tenderness and gallantry |
7/22/14 |
2 |
| Immigration: Impediments to the Conversation |
7/20/14 |
26 |
| Cardinal Dolan disappoints |
7/15/14 |
26 |
| Lois Lerner, Archie Bunker, and the Roving Liturgical Critic |
7/13/14 |
0 |
| A Benedictine way of philosophy |
7/12/14 |
1 |
| Conversational sins |
7/11/14 |
1 |
| Modesty and misogyny |
7/7/14 |
19 |
| Modesty and Other Skirmishes: Reassessing the Battle Lines |
7/3/14 |
1 |
| What’s wrong with defining love as an act of will? |
7/1/14 |
3 |
| A New Wrinkle in the Modesty Debate |
6/26/14 |
50 |
| The opposite of nostalgia |
6/24/14 |
2 |
| Newman and Caesar |
6/24/14 |
0 |
| “Dialogue” and “Encounter”: Archbishop Cordileone Reclaims a Couple of Buzzwords |
6/19/14 |
0 |
| Where Do I Apply for my Introvert’s Exemption? |
6/11/14 |
4 |
| Thoughts on modesty abroad, in three vignettes |
6/8/14 |
32 |
| The Power of Bad Example |
5/31/14 |
4 |
| Telling the truth about ourselves |
5/29/14 |
1 |
| Dwarfing the Other |
5/26/14 |
9 |
| Pity the Veterans? |
5/25/14 |
0 |
| Evangelii Gaudium: The Rest of the Story |
5/19/14 |
0 |
| Beyond “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin” |
5/11/14 |
9 |
| “The Third Way: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” |
5/1/14 |
7 |
| Two personalist popes canonized |
4/25/14 |
7 |
| Montgomery on modernity |
4/25/14 |
0 |
| Who Are We to Judge? |
4/24/14 |
4 |
| The Gift of Joy |
4/22/14 |
4 |
| Protagoras and Me |
4/15/14 |
3 |
| “A Tower that will Pierce the Clouds” |
4/10/14 |
0 |
| Everybody’s a Critic |
4/5/14 |
6 |
| Marriage and Freedom |
3/22/14 |
7 |
| 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 |
| The Neomalthusianism of Captain Kirk |
3/10/14 |
2 |
| RIP Ann Kiemel |
3/10/14 |
0 |
| Surprise Diagnosis |
2/27/14 |
0 |
| Over-protection cripples children |
2/20/14 |
0 |
| “Boxing” Others |
2/17/14 |
16 |
| Some relationships come with terms built-in |
2/17/14 |
0 |
| The Worst Kind of Hobby |
2/16/14 |
2 |
| No way out but through |
2/12/14 |
1 |
| Should We Redistribute the Children? |
2/10/14 |
6 |
| Love is unconditional; relationships have terms |
2/7/14 |
6 |
| Straight Talk about Unconditional Love |
2/5/14 |
5 |
| More Things in Heaven and Earth |
1/28/14 |
1 |
| Other people are the way to grace |
1/28/14 |
11 |
| What Would Tolkein Do? Mixed Feelings about Self-Promotion |
1/21/14 |
11 |
| How to rid yourself of gall |
1/17/14 |
4 |
| New Year’s Resolution Reality Check |
1/12/14 |
9 |
| Giving Joy a Bad Name |
1/6/14 |
0 |
| The HHS, Then and Now |
12/27/13 |
0 |
| Recovering Christmas joy |
12/23/13 |
8 |
| Evangelizing the Complacent |
12/22/13 |
9 |
| Moral problems aren’t solved by better economic policies |
12/19/13 |
0 |
| Parenting Persons |
12/13/13 |
6 |
| Admiration and the Spiritual Couch Potato |
12/12/13 |
2 |
| Merry Christmas, You Miserable Pagan! |
12/5/13 |
2 |
| A Sinners Guide for the Self-righteous |
12/4/13 |
41 |
| The Spirit of Worldliness |
12/3/13 |
3 |
| To be fully human is to be more than human |
12/1/13 |
0 |
| Q & A with Jacques Philippe |
11/29/13 |
1 |
| Jacques Philippe in Ann Arbor, Part Two |
11/21/13 |
0 |
| Jacques Philippe in Ann Arbor(!) |
11/17/13 |
0 |
| The personalism of Pope John XXIII |
11/15/13 |
1 |
| Self Esteem without Selfishness: Now Available! |
11/11/13 |
0 |
| The Wide-Awake Life |
11/10/13 |
3 |
| Proselytism vs. Evangelism: Round Two |
11/3/13 |
58 |
| When Faith becomes Ideology |
10/28/13 |
16 |
| Solemn Nonsense: A How-To Guide |
10/25/13 |
1 |
| Being in the heart of the church |
10/23/13 |
15 |
| Gratitude and Joy |
10/16/13 |
2 |
| On owning and not owning our property |
10/14/13 |
0 |
| The birthplace of Dietrich von Hildebrand |
10/12/13 |
2 |
| Opening Wide the Doors of the Field Hospital |
10/9/13 |
2 |
| Towards a Spirituality of Unknown Variables |
10/1/13 |
1 |
| The ferocity of goodness |
10/1/13 |
0 |
| A Problem of Translation? |
9/24/13 |
11 |
| On minding our own beeswax and letting the Pope be Pope |
9/24/13 |
48 |
| The Temptations of Beauty |
9/17/13 |
3 |
| Has Pope Francis Gone Too Far? |
9/14/13 |
2 |
| “No Good Options” |
9/10/13 |
5 |
| Efficiency for What? |
9/5/13 |
0 |
| Key differences between Catholic and leftist ideas of social justice |
9/2/13 |
2 |
| How Not to Pray |
8/30/13 |
10 |
| How do we DO personalism? |
8/27/13 |
2 |
| Some Reflections on the Spirit of Poverty |
8/22/13 |
7 |
| Dr. Allender on abuse and recovery |
8/21/13 |
11 |
| Layers of being |
8/16/13 |
5 |
| God and Man at EMU |
8/12/13 |
2 |
| Self-possession precedes self-giving |
8/9/13 |
23 |
| Austen on the need to investigate our feelings |
7/31/13 |
3 |
| It’s Not My Fault! |
7/28/13 |
10 |
| An artist’s approach to beauty |
7/25/13 |
6 |
| The moral seriousness of Miss Bates |
7/25/13 |
2 |
| The many superabundant goods of an apple tree |
7/23/13 |
3 |
| False Promises |
7/21/13 |
5 |
| Separating sex and love |
7/20/13 |
8 |
| Examining Your Examination of Conscience |
7/19/13 |
2 |
| Anniversary interview with Alice von Hildebrand |
7/17/13 |
5 |
| Von Hildebrand conference underway |
7/15/13 |
2 |
| Kicking the Anasthesia Habit |
7/11/13 |
0 |
| Fake wisdom |
7/10/13 |
4 |
| On the problem of overlooking not-beautiful women |
7/9/13 |
1 |
| On Culture Shock and Spiritual Fibromyalgia |
6/30/13 |
8 |
| 8 Reminders for fathers of marriageable daughters |
6/25/13 |
11 |
| The Self-Referential Person: What I Didn’t Mean |
6/24/13 |
3 |
| On the Self-Referential Person |
6/21/13 |
9 |
| Alice von Hildebrand on love and suffering |
6/17/13 |
0 |
| Tenderness watch |
6/14/13 |
0 |
| Belonging and identity |
6/14/13 |
0 |
| The Least I Need to Do |
6/10/13 |
5 |
| Two new items for my case against “unprincipled forgiveness” |
6/8/13 |
2 |
| It’s Here! |
6/6/13 |
1 |
| Mercies hurt |
6/4/13 |
3 |
| Interview with Hannah Arendt |
6/1/13 |
4 |
| 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 |
| A short thought about suffering |
5/18/13 |
5 |
| My Personalist Mother |
5/12/13 |
2 |
| Heaven is a person |
5/9/13 |
3 |
| Kierkegaard turns 200 |
5/8/13 |
0 |
| Tenderness and maturity |
5/7/13 |
7 |
| What is the most fundamental human right? Part 3: Three contenders |
5/4/13 |
3 |
| 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 |
| Beyond Biology |
5/3/13 |
3 |
| Personalists in practice |
5/2/13 |
0 |
| Does God Have Favorites? |
5/1/13 |
14 |
| Cults and co-dependency: how to detect the virus |
4/27/13 |
5 |
| Reductionism and Other Mental Illnesses |
4/26/13 |
4 |
| Not all pursuit of truth is good |
4/22/13 |
4 |
| Good words from Archbishop Chaput |
4/20/13 |
0 |
| Worse than a Nanny State |
4/18/13 |
5 |
| The ethics of organ donation |
4/18/13 |
0 |
| Sneak Preview |
4/14/13 |
6 |
| 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 |
| Of Charisms and Comfort Zones |
4/2/13 |
5 |
| A few personalist insights about conjugal love |
3/27/13 |
10 |
| All Things to All Men |
3/22/13 |
3 |
| 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 |
| Papa Francisco |
3/14/13 |
1 |
| Beauty ever ancient, ever new |
3/13/13 |
3 |
| The Chief Rabbi on Marriage, Part Two |
3/11/13 |
8 |
| On the Pseudo-Obvious |
3/11/13 |
2 |
| The sudden moral inversion |
3/7/13 |
5 |
| Jerzy Kluger and Karol Wojtyla |
3/4/13 |
2 |
| Tidbit from an interview with Cardinal George |
3/3/13 |
0 |
| The Chief Rabbi of France and the Irreversible Scrambling of Sexual Identity |
3/1/13 |
8 |
| The empty chair |
2/28/13 |
0 |
| Self-Esteem Without Selfishness: Increasing Your Capacity for Love |
2/26/13 |
6 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Eternal Security and Personhood |
2/15/13 |
0 |
| 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 |
| “Catholic Witness in a Nation Divided” CDs Available |
2/8/13 |
0 |
| Dictatorship of Realism? |
2/7/13 |
6 |
| On the drastic need to recover a sense of what it means to be a lady |
2/5/13 |
0 |
| The abyss of leisure |
2/3/13 |
6 |
| Seven Quick Takes: Immigration |
2/2/13 |
16 |
| Who decides? |
1/26/13 |
11 |
| The Circle of Irreplaceability: Making the Case for Marriage |
1/25/13 |
3 |
| 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 |
| From Pawns to Battering Rams, or What Are the Laypeople For? |
1/14/13 |
3 |
| 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 |
| Children are the fruit, not the product of marriage |
1/9/13 |
1 |
| Passive aggression is not a synonym for non-violent resistance |
1/6/13 |
2 |
| A “Personal” Lord and Savior? |
1/2/13 |
4 |
| Stop and think |
1/1/13 |
0 |
| Thoughts on Period of Adjustment |
12/22/12 |
2 |
| Some Arguments Against Gay Marriage, and Why They Won’t Work |
12/22/12 |
5 |
| 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 |
| Gaudete Sunday by the Waters of Babylon |
12/16/12 |
5 |
| Prayer Bloopers! Better Make the Kids Write ‘Em Out! |
12/12/12 |
0 |
| Neil Diamond and The Metaphysics of the Person |
12/11/12 |
6 |
| Light of Advent in the dark of December |
12/10/12 |
0 |
| Prayer and Fasting: Taking it Personally |
12/7/12 |
0 |
| Guardini on Forgiveness |
12/6/12 |
30 |
| Patient waiting |
12/4/12 |
1 |
| Why gender matters |
12/2/12 |
25 |
| Fair Game: Enlarging your Religious Compartment |
12/1/12 |
0 |
| Endings and Beginnings: The Liturgical Year and the Fullness of Joy |
12/1/12 |
1 |
| Virtual choirs & the transformative power of music |
11/30/12 |
4 |
| JPII on Different Kinds of Human Needs: Illustrations from Popular Music |
11/28/12 |
0 |
| Good and evil in the human heart |
11/26/12 |
8 |
| Liberty rests on spirituality |
11/24/12 |
1 |
| 7 Quick Takes: Consumerism and its Discontents |
11/24/12 |
6 |
| Back and Forth |
11/18/12 |
2 |
| The metaphysics of marriage |
11/15/12 |
5 |
| Cardinal Dolan, pastoral personalist |
11/13/12 |
0 |
| Three Hopeful Consequences of an Awful Election |
11/10/12 |
10 |
| Wisdom from Wittaker Chambers |
11/7/12 |
0 |
| Working Through the Problem of Evil in Personal Experience |
11/5/12 |
0 |
| Coming Soon: Love and Self-Esteem in English! |
11/2/12 |
2 |
| Anti-Spontaneity |
11/2/12 |
1 |
| In Praise of Halloween |
10/31/12 |
4 |
| The contraception crisis |
10/31/12 |
3 |
| Lies, the Empty Chair, and the Rejection of God |
10/29/12 |
2 |
| Evil, Lies, and the Election |
10/28/12 |
8 |
| What’s wrong with Obamacare |
10/26/12 |
0 |
| In Praise of Spontaneity, Under Certain Conditions |
10/25/12 |
3 |
| Religious Freedom under Threat: Panel & Discussion |
10/22/12 |
6 |
| A personalist view of literature |
10/19/12 |
0 |
| Peter |
10/15/12 |
2 |
| Celebrating two great lives |
10/12/12 |
8 |
| Personalism the key to interpreting Vatican II |
10/11/12 |
3 |
| The Gabe Axiom |
10/8/12 |
6 |
| SEALS, Cowboys, and Little Tykes |
10/7/12 |
1 |
| The value of “values” language |
10/5/12 |
0 |
| An Extraordinary Grace |
10/4/12 |
0 |
| Escape from personality |
10/2/12 |
0 |
| Making Sure We Don’t See God as Us Writ Large (continued) |
10/1/12 |
5 |
| Parents, Share Your Faults with Your Kids. They Love It! |
9/28/12 |
3 |
| A God in Our Image and Likeness |
9/27/12 |
6 |
| One More Time: Man and Woman, Head and Heart, Equality and Complementarity |
9/25/12 |
21 |
| Roger Kimball is relatively correct, but not absolutely so |
9/24/12 |
0 |
| Contra Fr. Barron on modern philosophy |
9/22/12 |
9 |
| A Personalist Universe |
9/18/12 |
8 |
| Two former Muslims; two ways of opposing Islamism |
9/18/12 |
1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Judge Not, Even During Election Season |
9/7/12 |
7 |
| 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 |
| In Praise of Hypocrisy (No, Not Really) |
8/31/12 |
5 |
| Reading Casti Connubii (and the Tradition) in Light of the Insights of JPII |
8/31/12 |
37 |
| Do husbands have authority over their wives? |
8/29/12 |
65 |
| Overcoming Practical Pessimism |
8/29/12 |
23 |
| Equality and Leadership in Marriage: the Example of Van and Davy |
8/26/12 |
23 |
| Boys Love, Not Just to Hit, But to Get Hit. Are Girls the Same? |
8/24/12 |
6 |
| Prozac, a consolation for atheism |
8/23/12 |
5 |
| A glaring instance of asking for unprincipled forgiveness |
8/22/12 |
4 |
| On Prayer, Both Second-Hand and Spontaneous |
8/16/12 |
7 |
| 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 |
| Judge Not, and Construct Not, Either. |
8/6/12 |
5 |
| The west won’t be saved by good politics and sound ideas |
8/6/12 |
1 |
| Two things I dislike |
8/4/12 |
1 |
| C. S. Lewis on Forgiveness |
8/1/12 |
2 |
| On the Dangers of Reading the Bible as a Kid |
8/1/12 |
5 |
| To get Beauty, bring back the critics! |
7/31/12 |
6 |
| Covering injustice serves to increase it |
7/31/12 |
0 |
| God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life, But What If He Won’t Tell You What It Is? |
7/26/12 |
28 |
| What his contrition has to do with my forgiveness |
7/24/12 |
24 |
| Turning the tables |
7/23/12 |
16 |
| More on Unprincipled Forgiveness |
7/22/12 |
90 |
| Six minutes on the greatness of Plato |
7/20/12 |
0 |
| Guilty of Unprincipled Forgiveness or Model Christian? |
7/18/12 |
92 |
| Justice and truth |
7/17/12 |
7 |
| Dr. Seuss: Personalist or Radical Individualist? |
7/15/12 |
3 |
| Persons, Friendship & Technology |
7/14/12 |
8 |
| 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 |
| God is a Personalist: the anecdotal evidence |
7/9/12 |
5 |
| Response to “Forgiveness and Dysfunction” |
7/8/12 |
7 |
| Forgiveness and dysfunction |
7/8/12 |
25 |
| Examples of “False” Charity |
7/7/12 |
9 |
| A nun uses TOB to critique (unseen) soft porn pop movie |
7/7/12 |
1 |
| Going Through Christ to the Other |
7/5/12 |
25 |
| Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool |
7/4/12 |
3 |
| Grains of Truth |
7/2/12 |
1 |
| Questions, Answers, and Mystery |
6/29/12 |
1 |
| Obama’s Empericism |
6/27/12 |
4 |
| The concept of unprincipled forgiveness |
6/27/12 |
45 |
| What are you doing for religious freedom? |
6/27/12 |
0 |
| Despite the Hype, Toss PowerPoint in the Can |
6/24/12 |
6 |
| Blankenhorn succumbs to gay marriage advocacy |
6/23/12 |
8 |
| 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 |
| Population Problems (even in the Islamic World) |
6/17/12 |
2 |
| Honest associations |
6/16/12 |
0 |
| A Recovering Luddite Looks at the Internet |
6/14/12 |
2 |
| Love and Self-Esteem: English translation in progress |
6/12/12 |
3 |
| Hoffer the personalist |
6/12/12 |
0 |
| Personal dignity and belonging |
6/8/12 |
9 |
| Kierkegaard Goes to Walmart |
6/7/12 |
2 |
| Toward a Personalist Approach to Homosexual Attraction |
6/3/12 |
12 |
| Philadelphia chosen for next World Meeting of Families |
6/3/12 |
0 |
| The post-modern loss of truth |
6/1/12 |
2 |
| Overregulating the Person |
6/1/12 |
9 |
| Defilement and the Challenge of Addressing Evil |
5/29/12 |
11 |
| The power of the pure |
5/29/12 |
0 |
| A Problem and a Fear about SSM |
5/29/12 |
5 |
| Oh, No, Not That Again! Revisiting Self-Esteem |
5/23/12 |
11 |
| 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 |
| Misery and Genuine Hope |
5/21/12 |
0 |
| The Outsourced Self? |
5/18/12 |
10 |
| Cardinal George sounds a strong warning |
5/15/12 |
12 |
| About being under the circumstances |
5/14/12 |
2 |
| Misery and Pessimism |
5/13/12 |
0 |
| Is Kierkegaard expecting too much from mere mortals? |
5/10/12 |
6 |
| Judge Not? |
5/9/12 |
8 |
| Bumping up against a bogus notion of charity |
5/9/12 |
0 |
| Faith: real and concrete and human |
5/8/12 |
4 |
| 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 |
| Teach your children well |
5/2/12 |
10 |
| Misery and Escapism |
4/29/12 |
3 |
| In Defense of Unimpressive Persons |
4/26/12 |
13 |
| The Transcendent and the Practical Perspectives on LIfe—II |
4/25/12 |
0 |
| Some thoughts in defense of Cardinal Schönborn |
4/25/12 |
7 |
| 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 |
| Should A Cardinal Confirm A Practicing Homosexual Parish Council Member? Some Critical Reflections |
4/23/12 |
16 |
| What The Hunger Games miss |
4/20/12 |
53 |
| Diversity: Reclaiming a Buzzword |
4/19/12 |
10 |
| Von Hildebrand’s view of love |
4/19/12 |
2 |
| Silence |
4/17/12 |
4 |
| Catholicism and Personalism: Not Such Strange Bedfellows |
4/11/12 |
20 |
| 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 |
| The Transcendent and the Practical Perspectives on Life—I |
3/29/12 |
1 |
| Fr. Barron’s take on “The Hunger Games” |
3/28/12 |
0 |
| ND prof says, “The immorality of birth control is no longer a teaching of the Catholic Church.” |
3/26/12 |
6 |
| The World of Work and the World of Leisure |
3/26/12 |
1 |
| The Selfhood of Mary |
3/26/12 |
6 |
| What’s wrong with opining |
3/21/12 |
1 |
| Phenomenology and the art of persuasion |
3/20/12 |
2 |
| The Hunger Games |
3/20/12 |
1 |
| To restore marriage, teach truth |
3/18/12 |
4 |
| Purposeful emptiness |
3/15/12 |
0 |
| Bonus wisdom from Alice von Hildebrand |
3/12/12 |
17 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Two Thoughts on “One Flesh” |
3/5/12 |
15 |
| What is “Totalitarian” and Totalitarianism? Is the USA really moving to become a totalitarian state? |
3/4/12 |
2 |
| Has the USA become a Totalitarian State? Grave Attacks on the Freedom of Faith Conscience and Creed |
3/3/12 |
11 |
| Persons vs. Power |
3/2/12 |
0 |
| The negative effects of ‘thinking the unthinkable’ |
2/29/12 |
13 |
| Blessed Are They Who Mourn |
2/28/12 |
0 |
| Joy in the Midst of Sorrow |
2/26/12 |
1 |
| Holy cosmetics |
2/26/12 |
8 |
| The lie underlying the culture of death |
2/25/12 |
0 |
| Do we want our politicians to be consistent? |
2/23/12 |
53 |
| 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 |
| Deceit and coercion: different means, same end |
2/21/12 |
1 |
| “Forgiving Oneself”—What Might It Mean? |
2/14/12 |
18 |
| The Bishop and the Baby |
2/11/12 |
14 |
| The President becomes Henry VIII |
2/11/12 |
0 |
| Who or what cares? |
2/8/12 |
5 |
| Solidarity |
2/8/12 |
2 |
| Christianity in the news |
2/7/12 |
1 |
| Reflections on silence |
2/5/12 |
1 |
| Embodiment and Morality |
2/1/12 |
0 |
| 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 |
| Embodiment |
1/25/12 |
1 |
| 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 |
| Forgiveness: What Completes It? What Cripples It? |
1/21/12 |
15 |
| What Newman and Aristotle mean by the Lesbian Canon |
1/21/12 |
0 |
| 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 |
| Self-Donation |
1/18/12 |
0 |
| I Actually Remember Rosa Parks |
1/16/12 |
18 |
| Two new personalist profiles |
1/14/12 |
0 |
| On a certain self-love |
1/14/12 |
13 |
| Patience is a Virtue |
1/13/12 |
1 |
| Interfaith statement on marriage issued |
1/12/12 |
37 |
| Freedom and Truth |
1/11/12 |
0 |
| A thought about sanctimony |
1/10/12 |
15 |
| Memory and identity |
1/10/12 |
2 |
| After 35th Wedding Anniversary: Reflections on Fidelity |
1/8/12 |
0 |
| Von Hildebrand’s vision in a word: Reverence |
1/6/12 |
6 |
| Bonhoeffer II: on the objectivity of marriage |
1/5/12 |
0 |
| Human Freedom |
1/4/12 |
1 |
| A personalist President? |
1/2/12 |
2 |
| Genuine Religion and Conventional Religion in the Current Season |
12/30/11 |
1 |
| Christmas, Defiance, and Despair |
12/28/11 |
18 |
| Persons Are Unrepeatable |
12/28/11 |
37 |
| Fr. Ker on Chesterton |
12/27/11 |
0 |
| Celebration for the Religious and the Secular Man |
12/26/11 |
2 |
| Urbi et Orbi |
12/26/11 |
1 |
| Unto us a child is given |
12/25/11 |
3 |
| Christmas links |
12/23/11 |
0 |
| Silence, Recollection, and the Season of Hectic Activity |
12/21/11 |
10 |
| Interiority of Human Persons |
12/21/11 |
3 |
| Christmas music |
12/20/11 |
9 |
| Vaclav Havel dies at 75 |
12/18/11 |
1 |
| 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 |
| Worthy of Respect: The Personalist Norm |
12/14/11 |
8 |
| Alice von Hildebrand on boredom |
12/12/11 |
3 |
| The creed as a devotional act |
12/12/11 |
0 |
| Individualism not quite the answer |
12/9/11 |
8 |
| Flying with Both Wings: Why Christians Need Philosophy |
12/7/11 |
10 |
| “Passive” virtues eminently social |
12/6/11 |
0 |
| What about God offends? |
12/6/11 |
1 |
| The philosophy and politics of isolation |
12/1/11 |
31 |
| 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 |
| National holidays and government intervention |
11/24/11 |
5 |
| 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 |
| New translation of the mass: Dashed hopes? |
11/16/11 |
8 |
| Disposing over my own existence |
11/15/11 |
0 |
| Liturgy and Personality |
11/14/11 |
3 |
| True simplicity |
11/12/11 |
0 |
| The kindness of strangers |
11/12/11 |
0 |
| Practical wisdom about love |
11/10/11 |
0 |
| The effects of thinking the unthinkable |
11/5/11 |
1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Benedict on condoms |
12/13/10 |
29 |
| Paternalism in the Hippocratic Oath |
11/15/10 |
1 |
| Mildred Jefferson, heroine for life |
11/11/10 |
1 |
| 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 |
| In Defense of Negativity |
10/27/10 |
2 |
| The number 223 |
10/26/10 |
1 |
| Fatiguing us into compliance |
10/23/10 |
0 |
| Imagining communism |
10/22/10 |
0 |
| Are we all equal, i.e. equally worthless? |
10/22/10 |
3 |
| Cleansed but not saved |
10/17/10 |
1 |
| 119th birthday of Edith Stein |
10/12/10 |
2 |
| 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 |
| The Argument from the Self-contradiction of denying freedom |
10/9/10 |
4 |
| Newman becomes Catholic |
10/8/10 |
0 |
| Truth? Who cares? |
10/8/10 |
4 |
| Personal bonds |
10/6/10 |
0 |
| Sofia Tolstoy and feminism |
10/4/10 |
4 |
| The modernity of Newman |
10/4/10 |
0 |
| What’s wrong with this answer? |
9/29/10 |
0 |
| Natural rights, witches and unicorns |
9/26/10 |
17 |
| Benedict on Newman |
9/25/10 |
0 |
| Personalism at our founding |
9/24/10 |
0 |
| Is love not enough? |
9/24/10 |
2 |
| Education in cyberspace? |
9/22/10 |
0 |
| Newman Beatified today |
9/19/10 |
0 |
| The personalist significance of involuntary emotions |
9/17/10 |
2 |
| 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 |
| “The emperor’s new clothes” put to music! |
5/11/10 |
5 |
| 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 |
| Intimacy without love: an illustration |
2/28/10 |
0 |
| 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 |
| Between the knockers and boosters of modern culture |
1/7/10 |
2 |
| 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 |
| Cloning and the right to ignorance |
12/4/09 |
2 |
| Ecclesiastical dysfunction |
12/4/09 |
0 |
| Criticizing modernity |
12/3/09 |
2 |
| 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 |
| Why a theology of the body? |
11/10/09 |
3 |
| 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 |
| Man: the dressing animal |
10/13/09 |
3 |
| 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 |
| The goodness of lamenting |
10/5/09 |
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 |
| More on ideology |
9/29/09 |
1 |
| Personalism and NFP |
9/25/09 |
0 |
| What’s wrong with ideology? |
9/24/09 |
1 |
| 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 |
| The first three evidences for human freedom |
9/6/09 |
0 |
| Are we really free? Can we know it? |
9/6/09 |
0 |
| What divides us? |
9/4/09 |
7 |
| Inner Freedom and Cooperative Freedom |
8/26/09 |
6 |
| More on Christopher West |
8/24/09 |
0 |
| What Is Freedom? Can We choose Radically Different Lives? |
8/16/09 |
0 |
| A child psychologist’s insights on anger |
8/14/09 |
20 |
| Stevenson’s wrath |
8/13/09 |
2 |
| 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 |
| Are all men looking for God? |
7/6/09 |
3 |
| A short excursion into the metaphysics of the person |
7/6/09 |
10 |
| 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 |
| Defending the Freedom of wearing Veils and Burqas |
6/23/09 |
7 |
| Question 1: on John Paul II and Hugh Hefner |
6/22/09 |
26 |
| Question 2: on prudishness |
6/22/09 |
24 |
| 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 |
| Should burquas be banned? |
6/22/09 |
8 |
| Is there any precedent for West’s views in the tradition? |
6/21/09 |
18 |
| Fr. Geiger’s latest on the West debate |
6/20/09 |
103 |
| But are we free? Five questions |
6/20/09 |
1 |
| Forgiveness retreat |
6/19/09 |
0 |
| Closed posts, open discussion |
6/13/09 |
21 |
| The problem of innocence |
6/11/09 |
19 |
| Why nothing is left of Jewish Christian Faith if we are not free |
6/10/09 |
0 |
| Conjugal rights: a further Comment |
6/10/09 |
6 |
| Kissing the Koran |
6/9/09 |
9 |
| 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 |
| Here’s hoping that West pays no attention |
6/7/09 |
10 |
| Are we free? Are we persons? |
6/7/09 |
0 |
| Prudishness |
6/7/09 |
1 |
| Examples of prudishness |
6/6/09 |
0 |
| What is prudishness? |
6/6/09 |
1 |
| Audio and video coming soon! |
6/5/09 |
1 |
| Christopher West: A von Hildebrandian’s Perspective |
6/4/09 |
59 |
| The problem of projection |
6/4/09 |
11 |
| Obama utters a truth he defies in practice |
6/4/09 |
0 |
