In the first episode of the Sermon Notes Podcast’s new series through Ecclesiastes, Chasing After the Wind, Jay Strother and Brian Ball sit down to talk through Ecclesiastes 1 and the question that drives the entire book: if the wisest, wealthiest, most powerful man in history couldn’t find satisfaction in
Catholic discussion of evolutionism did not end with the publication of Humani generis. Although it is not my intention to write a history of the three quarters of a century since publication of the encyclical, a few words about subsequent Catholic thought on the two issues that the encyclical addressed
Louisiana Parish to Rebuild After Devastating Fire Sixty years—that’s how long Stephen Jackson, an architect by profession, has been worshiping at St. Luke’s Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was also there that he met his wife in 1987. In the early hours of Saturday, February 17, 2024, the parish
If Aquinas’s solution emerges from all of Kant’s problems, in what sense, then, can there be a resurrection of Thomas? Is the only possible characterization of Aquinas one where his philosophy and theology resemble to no small degree the artistic world of his fellow Dominican Fiesole, both of whose clearly
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
In 2025, we mark the seventeen-hundredth anniversary of the first ecumenical council, convoked by Constantine in the city of Nicaea on the coast of Asia Minor in 325. The socio-political factors surrounding that event, the happenings and outcome of the council itself, and the subsequent wrangling over its ratification are
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
Picture it: you are a normal priest, or you try to be, and you are a little less normal than usual because it is the week before Christmas: special liturgies, special confession times, family togetherness (yikes)! And then, your phone buzzes—and it buzzes again—and it buzzes again. Everybody is sending