Tag: Thought

  • The Marian Turn in John Henry Newman’s Thought

    Overlooking the High Street, Oxford’s University Church of St Mary the Virgin boasts a porch which, for centuries, has welcomed worshipers through its doors. Completed in 1637, this Baroque South Porch symbolically extended the contact between Oxford’s ancient university Church with the city itself, further linking town and gown, the

  • The False God of Capitalist Liberalism in Catholic Social Thought

    The 2021 Benedictine College Evangelization conference topic, “Destroyer of the Gods: Christianity vs. the Idols of Secularism,” called for papers to identify the various ways “in which Christians relate to the ‘idols’ of contemporary secular culture.” Catholic social doctrine has identified the ideologies of socialism and capitalism, respectively, as major

  • Giving Thanks and Giving Thought

    To read more from Daniel, visit his blog: Sic Et Non. The gospel of Luke (17:11-19) records that, on one occasion, as Jesus was traveling through the Galilee and Samaria en route to Jerusalem, he encountered a group of ten lepers.  Having presumably heard of his miraculous healing powers, they