The New Feminism is so much a part of my professional and personal and spiritual life—for over thirty years—that I have struggled to separate it out and hold it up for inspection. I even thought of naming this paper “Reflections and Confessions of a New Feminist Lab Rat.” But inspect
On May 1, 1931, Mount Aniakchak, situated on the Alaska Peninsula, erupted. A menacing black mushroom cloud rose nearly four miles into the air. Earthquakes rocked the surrounding area. In nearby Meshik, egg-sized pumice barraged the houses in which frightened families hid. Shafts of lightning lit the dark clouds, producing
It has become a commonplace in Catholic circles that, while the controversies of the Patristic era were largely theological and Christological, and the controversies of the Reformation era were largely soteriological and ecclesiological, the controversies the Church faces today are primarily anthropological in character. When we make this observation, we
For several years in a row on May 26, the feast of St. Philip Neri, I have written an email to Alasdair MacIntyre with a brief greeting and a recent photo of the son we named after him. He usually replied within a few hours, and his use of exclamation
The immediate purpose of Rerum novarum was public policy, specifically the question of just wages for laborers and their right to form associations. In no letter do we find Leo writing so ambidextrously with respect to policy and theory. We leave the policy issues to one side in order to
Sixty years ago, Pope Paul VI declared that the Catholic Church is “proud to have glorified and liberated woman, and in the course of centuries, in diversity of characters, to have brought into relief her . . . equality with man.” Almost forty years ago, Pope John Paul II declared