A shibboleth of modern Anglo-American philosophy is a belief to the effect that "one cannot infer an ought-statement from an is-statem...

The topic named in my title is one that I've written about before, for an academic journal , on this blog,  and in the course of combo...

By my fellow Dominican layman, Michael Seagriff .

For the ever-growing majority without a classical education, my allusion to Scylla and Charybdis can be understood well enough with the ...

I just had to say that in this medium, as I once did on Facebook. The consternation I aroused there bodes well for the traffic I hope to ...

You read that right. According to William E. Carroll —a Catholic philosopher currently ensconced as a good old Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford...

Yes, it feels like a so-bad-it's-good Chuck Norris movie. At the climax  of yet another such flick, the words of the steely-eyed her...

As I waded this morning through my overwhelming social-network streams—all of which now integrate into my single Google+ stream—I managed...

As I understand the concept, grace is "efficacious" when it ensures that there will be no "mortal" sin, i.e. when it ens...

Catholics need a sounder understanding of vocation. The old-fashioned, hard-bitten Catholics I know are comfortable thinking only of clergy ...

Over at Called to Communion, one of my favorite blogs, Bryan Cross has posted a rather amusing meditation on and critique of "ecclesial...

I've obtained the revised version of Dawn Eden's recent master's thesis at "the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Concep...

Conscience seems to have become a hot topic again in the blogosphere, or at least that part of it which concerns Catholic intellectuals. Tha...

I got to thinking about this topic by reading two recently posted essays: David Mills' "Spirituality without Spirits" at Firs...

As individual Christians, including and especially as contemporary Catholics, we tend to forget that  it's not about you.  I was reminde...