Years ago, I spent a month with my family in Burundi. I had once worked there when still single. During this visit, my daughter took French lessons from a local teacher in the small provincial center where we were staying. At one point, M. Jérôme, the teacher, asked her why Europeans give flowers . . . . Continue Reading »
As has become distressingly clear, many people blame the Israelis for the atrocities that Hamas terrorists perpetrated on Saturday, October 7, against hundreds of civilians, including women and children, across southern Israel. The Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee, along with many . . . . Continue Reading »
Rodney Dangerfield famously claimed to get no respect, but in fact he was admired enormously by his fellow comics. Though it feels faintly impious to liken Blessed John Duns Scotus to a comedian, the comparison is, at least in this regard, apt. Scotus has nothing like the reputation in the popular . . . . Continue Reading »
Essentially, this is a book about the importance of worshiping the right God: It does not quite argue that—in the immortal words of the Song of Roland—“Christians are right and pagans are wrong,” but it questions what counts as talking truthfully about God. It is an . . . . Continue Reading »
William McCormick joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas. Continue Reading »
Events happening over the coming months that may interest our readers. Continue Reading »
Philosophical errors concerning human things lead to errors about divine things. Continue Reading »
On this episode, Robert Delfino discusses his book Does God Exist?: A Socratic Dialogue on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas.
In this episode, Francis Beckwith discusses his book Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant. Continue Reading »
Germain Gabriel Grisez, a man of the Church and one of the greatest thinkers of our age, passed away on February 1. Continue Reading »
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