The critical pedagogists' cherished goal of liberation through education, emblazoned in the sky by Guevara and implanted in the soul by Freire, might finally be within reach. Continue Reading »
The normalization of chemical substances may seem like a phenomenon peculiar to our postmodern moment, but a movie made nearly seventy years ago sounded the alarm before many of us were even born. Continue Reading »
For those who do the backstroke or shoot hoops at a functionally agnostic YMCA “swim and gym,” the Christ-centered history of the institution may be surprising. Some believers seek to make it better known. Continue Reading »
Opera has traditionally had little interest in Christian orthodoxy. So when composer Francis Poulenc wrote his masterpiece, Dialogues des Carmélites, the work’s celebration of heroic piety defied the secular spirit of the art form. Continue Reading »
In these perilous times, we all feel ill at ease. But over the last two months, our unity as people of faith has manifested itself in an outpouring of support. Continue Reading »
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., Synod-2023’s relator general, said that the Synod’s purpose was not changing Catholic teaching but “listening.” To which one must ask, “listening to what end”? Continue Reading »
Jesus’s burden is different in kind from those of the scribes and Pharisees. With Jesus, the one giving us the yoke is himself the yoke. Continue Reading »
Princeton’s Gothic towers point to a higher truth. But the school's new creed of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion cannot permit spires. Continue Reading »
Tolstoy was surely right that it means little to confess Jesus as Son of God if you ignore his commandments, but he lurched toward the opposite extreme—a deeply-felt, demanding, but ultimately thin liberal Christianity. Continue Reading »