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
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
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
The details of their analyses vary, but a number of commentators have recently come to the same conclusion: Catholic theology finds itself in a profoundly challenging moment. In his 2021 essay, “The Crisis in Catholic Theology,” Grant Kaplan reflects from his position at a large Catholic university on the “gravitational pull
Just about everything Newman wrote on any topic over a long career of writing is controversial in some way, or another, and engenders strong responses, whether of outrage or acclaim, frustration or elation, the emotion of being hard-done by or quiet vindication. The experience of reading Newman—either The Idea of
The Challenge One afternoon about twenty-five years ago, I was sitting in an English Department meeting at the Jesuit university where I taught. I was a younger member of the department and was expressing my enthusiasm about a new course I had been invited to create and teach by the
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this academic year. This occasion calls for something of a retrospective mode, a contemplative reflection upon the Center’s very fundaments: “ethics,” “culture,” and—perhaps most importantly—the ampersand or coordinating conjunction between them.