A decade ago, I made a move from Australia to the United States and served for a year as a visiting research Professor at DePaul University. This brief period of migration—one overlaid on my experience of already being a migrant to Australia—provided an experiential backdrop to what would later become
Crises of human dignity in our age tend to focus on those patent assaults against the human person, including abortion, the death penalty, war, and the abuse of the migrant and laborer alike—to name but a few. As St. John Paul II describes in Evangelium Vitae, each of these affronts against
A common question among Catholics is whether they are permitted to attend invalid marriages (that is, weddings which result in an invalid marriage). Despite the prevalence of the question, there has been little formal explanation by Church authority. The following then is merely one canonist’s view on the topic. The
By now the Catholic Church’s support of a “living wage” (along with the related but differing “just wage”) is well known. Magisterial social teaching, along with the documents of synods and bishops’ conferences, since the promulgation of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum has consistently upheld his declaration that one “has a
SPOILER ALERT: The second part of this article contains The Office spoilers. How to be a man? I picked up a book while Christmas shopping this December that I hoped might give me an answer. It is called The Book of Men. It is a collection of eighty short stories,
The idols and false notions which have already preoccupied the human understanding and are deeply rooted in it, not only so beset men’s minds that they become difficult of access, but even when access is obtained will again meet, and trouble us in the instauration of the sciences, unless mankind
In an important essay composed around the time he was writing Love in the Ruins, Walker Percy declared his interest in writing a sort of “prophecy in reverse,” a novel of the future warning readers about his “ultimate concern with the nature of man and the nature of reality” in
Dear Notre Dame, A professor from the evangelical Wheaton College lecturing Notre Dame about the Virgin Mary could be compared to a Waffle House fry cook discoursing on flambé technique at Eleven Madison Park. But seeing I had occasion to speak to you about Mary thanks to a kind invitation