Two Old Books

The intellectual culture of the West today--meaning not the culture of people who deem themselves intellectuals, but rather the set of assum...

Our society is continuously engaged in pseudo-debates about a range of issues, from abortion to gun control to redefining marriage to the pr...

Have you ever asked yourself what the "Middle Ages" are supposed to be in the middle of? The answer tells us something about our b...

One of the most useful things I learned in this last year studying philosophy was how to properly make an argument. The scholastics of the m...

Patristic Spirituality:  The subject of this week's class was Evagrios Pontikos, an ascetical writer from the late 4th century AD. Each ...

Before turning to a look at the week that was, let me first offer my prayers for our Holy Father, Pope Benedict, who this morning announced ...

Apologies to all of you  both of you who were pining for a weekly update from me and didn't get one last week. Other than slicing off pa...