Tag: Research

  • Research at a Catholic University

    John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortation Ex Corde Ecclesiae, in this its thirty-fifth anniversary year, remains the most thorough and most sophisticated reflection on the Catholic university in the literature of the teaching authority of the Church (the “magisterium”). In celebration of that anniversary, I would like to quote the opening

  • Research and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

    The “Catholic Intellectual Tradition” is a concept often invoked to help characterize the warrant for a conversation staged between the sciences and the humanities, where the latter include philosophy and, of course, theology—even if theology is not strictly speaking a discipline of the humanities but a sacred science, a “sacra