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
The trend in both Christian and secular disability theory has been to challenge the Thomistic assertion that disability will no longer exist after the resurrection. Jesus is called ableist for healing the disabled, even in Christian publications. The claim is common enough to have made its way into satire. More
Our pursuit of justice is connected with the recovery of a mysticism, a spiritual training in the act of recognition. In its power to frame, to narrate a world in which we might live, language has effects. It was in hopes of changing certain effects by challenging a certain language
The last several years of teaching collegiate introductory Catholic theology courses at multiple universities have convinced me that the very rationale of a mandatory theology course at a Catholic university, as well as the material typically studied in such courses, are largely unintelligible to many students. If my experience is
The Diary Of Hans Frank [Der Tagebuch von Hans Frank] fell by coincidence into the hands of the Americans in May 1945. Before that, it had been preserved at the University Library in Heidelberg, where the American 7th Army had set up its center for documentation. From there, by a
In his masterwork, The Silmarillion, the mythological ground of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien has this to say concerning death in his imagined world: “But to [men] I will give a new gift.” Therefore [God] willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find
The latter half of the twentieth century saw fresh interest in Aristotelian ethics. One aspect of this renewal is hope for reform not only within the field of moral philosophy but for academic inquiry in general and for the wider culture. This has been a central hope of Alasdair MacIntyre,