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David Solomon’s Moral Vision
“There is such a difference between life and theory.”Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn The community of philosophers, and of Catholic and Christian intellectuals, mourns this week the death of W....
Nourishing Mystery
The Eucharist in Modern Philosophyby xavier tilliette, translated by jonathan martin ciraulocatholic university of america, 200 pages, $34.95 This book, by the late Jesuit theologian Xavier Tilliette, discusses how...
Look! It Is Jesus
What do Catholics believe happens to the bread and wine that are consecrated during the Liturgy of the Eucharist? As the philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe put it in...
Lo, I Am With You Always
When I was a boy, my parish priest was a child molester. This was more than 15 years after a parishioner at a different church had reported this priest...
A Life of Being-in-the-World
The profession of philosophy lost one of its most distinguished members with the death of Hubert Dreyfus on Saturday, April 22. Dreyfus taught for nearly five decades, from 1968...
Calling Torture by its Name
In conversation with ABC News in his first televised interview since taking office, President Donald Trump spoke in strikingly frank terms about the possible use of torture as a...
What (Who?) Is a University?
There is an old story, much loved by academics, that in an address to the Columbia University faculty in 1948 Dwight Eisenhower, then President of the university, prefaced his...
