Always seeking after fulfillment, yet unable to truly reach outside of himself in any creative act, Swann in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is both a pathetic and a tragic character whose example leaves a deep impression on the narrator of the novel. Throughout the story of Swann’s
The future of Catholic journalism is of great interest to me. This fact may surprise you, since I am neither a journalist nor a communications professional. I am a sacramental theologian whose doctoral work focused on liturgical formation in Augustine of Hippo. Yet, it is the doctor of grace himself who
Can something that has no image come as an image? . . . In my room a little lamp is always lighted before the icon at night—the light is dim and negligible, but nevertheless you can see everything. —Ippolit, in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot Ippolit’s stray observation about the Christ icon,
A central part of my vocation as a Catholic moral theologian is thinking about and making the case for a Consistent Life Ethic (CLE). From Cardinal Bernardin to St. John Paul II to Pope Francis, we are taught from within this tradition that our defense and support of life must
On June 24th, a landmark decision was handed down from the Supreme Court of the United States declaring abortion to no longer be a constitutional right. This earth-shattering news coincided with the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Nativity of John the Baptist, a providential coincidence, if
At first glance, Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War, a collection of previously published articles, essays, and op-eds by National Book Award winning fiction writer Phil Klay, is exactly what you might expect from a Catholic Marine veteran who attended Regis, the prestigious Jesuit high school
In this way the love of God was revealed to us: . . .that he . . . sent his Son as expiation for our sins —1 John 4:9-10 The theme of atonement takes us to the very heart of the mission of Jesus Christ. Revealing the love of God
Thus the first service to politics rendered by the Christian faith is that it liberates man from the irrationality of political myths, which are the real threat of our time. Taking a stand for sobriety, which does what is possible and does not cry with an ardent heart after the