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
This college football season, a gilded statue of the Blessed Mother, standing high atop her dome, will glimmer as she greets thousands of Catholics heading to Sunday Mass following Saturdays’ nationally televised games in the stadium nearby. If you consider yourself a Fighting Irish fan, you may be picturing the
This past fall I taught my course on atheism for a second time. It was well received last spring, the first time a course on atheism had been offered at Georgetown University. So, I decided to teach it again. Why offer a course on atheism at a Catholic institution? Many who
What Is Happening at Asbury University Wasn’t Planned—Is This the Start of Widespread Revival?What has been dubbed the “Asbury Revival’ has not only caught the attetion of American Christians but also Christians outside of the United States. University of the Cumberlands seeing ‘evidence of the Lord’s work’ at student-led worship