Richard A. Spinello
In a formal address delivered during his recent visit to Columbia, Pope
Francis implored his brother Jesuits to defend his embattled exhortation
on marriage, which remains haunted by its obscurities and fervent
vagueness. In his short discourse, the pope also enlisted Thomas Aquinas
in this enterprise by insisting upon the Thomistic properties of Amoris
Laetitia. He […]
John M. Grondelski
“Sticks and stones may break my bones / but names will never hurt me.”
So goes the old children’s nursery rhyme. We know, of course, that the
claim is not exactly true: CBS produced a documentary in 2011 about the
effects of bullying in a digital age, “Words Can Kill.” What is less
talked about […]
R. J. Snell
Despite curbing my online reading, scarcely a day passes without noting
some new scandal caused by a theologian, priest, or bishop. It’s true,
of course, that small stories from faraway places achieve an immediacy
impossible without the web, but, still, the outrages are all too real. I
suspect stories come readily to mind: commemorations of […]
John Horvat II
Ronald Reagan once said that an economist is someone who sees something
happen in practice and wonders if it could work in theory. The new book,
Pope Francis and the Caring Society, appears like a team of economists
forced to study the encyclical Laudato Si’ in theory and then wonder if
it might work in […]
Paul Joseph Prezzia
Almost twenty-five hundred years ago, a Greek decided that his era was
so unique and exciting that he was going to learn as much as he could
about it by any means that he could. He would travel to where the great
events of the age had occurred, learn about the cultures of all the […]
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