This book, by the late Jesuit theologian Xavier Tilliette, discusses how philosophers from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries—including Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, Fichte, and Hegel, as well as a number of minor figures—engaged with the doctrine of the Eucharist. It needs to . . . . Continue Reading »
Something is wrong. Throughout the West, people are angry, anxious, and discontented. Paradoxically, the ill temper arises amid wealth unimaginable to our recent ancestors. (But perhaps this is not a paradox after all. Recall 1 Timothy 6:10: “For the love of money is the root of all evil.”) . . . . Continue Reading »
Francis X. Maier joins the podcast to discuss his new book True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church. Continue Reading »
Francis X. Maier joins the podcast to discuss his new book True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church. Continue Reading »
The Holy Spirit moves in the streets of Seville during Holy Week. Continue Reading »
Pope Francis has had a myriad of challenges in the eleventh year of his pontificate. Continue Reading »
Mary Ann Glendon joins the podcast to discuss her new book In the Courts of Three Popes: An American Lawyer and Diplomat in the Last Absolute Monarchy of the West. Continue Reading »
The U.S. Church should demand nothing less than comprehensive financial reform of the Vatican.
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The Catholic Church in America has both shadows and light, but the ministries of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, Word on Fire, consecrated life, and others show that it is far from being a wasteland. Continue Reading »
Pope Francis's favorite theologian, St. Vincent of Lérins, would have recognized that no one in the Church is “master” of divine revelation. Continue Reading »
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