It is generally accepted among American Catholics (lay and cleric alike) that abstinence from meat on Fridays outside of lent is optional so long as you “substitute something else” in its place (or some variation of this). In reality, though, the law surrounding abstinence from meat in the United States
The question of “finitude as such,” as the point of departure of all research, including in theology, poses a problem, and has posed a problem since its first exposition in my earlier work. Everything happens as if rootedness in finitude renounced any request for the infinite. I have, however, indicated
For the first time in the history of theorizing about literature and art, certain traditional notions have lost their prestige. Mimesis is one. Our modern idea of esthetic creation as mimesis, as a process of imitation, goes back to Aristotle who really borrowed it from Plato, although in Plato esthetic
In the last ten years, scientists have placed various components of the human brain into animals of other species, producing mice with human brain cell grafts, rhesus macaques with a key human neurodevelopmental gene MCPH1, and most recently cynomolgus monkey embryos with human stem cells inserted into them. The mice with
When I finally got around to watching Matt Walsh’s documentary What is a Woman, I was struck with a sense of déjà vu. The experience was eerily familiar, and it took me a minute to trace the source: a memory of sitting on a Goodwill couch in a one-bedroom apartment,