Rich Lizardo For all its excellent acting, exciting sequences, and exquisite imagery, del Toro’s "Frankenstein" fails to meet the moment.

Thomas J. Kronholz The post-Enlightenment West lost sight of God’s metaphysical presence in the world before it lost its mystic faith.

Nell O’Leary Questions about human nature and the ethical use of technology are at the forefront of peoples’ minds today, in large part due to the rise of AI.

Dr. Tod Worner Not long ago, I was listening to an interview held with the late Harold Bloom, the brilliant, prolific, and provocative literary critic and Yale Sterling Professor of the Humanities. Bloom’s puckish oeuvre of declarations includes “I have limped off so many cultural battlefields that I increasingly feel like my heroes in The Iliad, who do […]

Dr. Joshua Bitting Let’s have the courage to set out into the dark with God. For if we reflect long enough, we will see there is no other place for Christians.

Dr. Kody W. Cooper The founders would be amused to hear that the divine legislator of natural rights to whom they appealed in the Declaration did “not distinguish between faiths.”

Dr. Tod Worner Ultimately, our systems of justice and our intellectual apprehensions stop at the water’s edge of the fathomless depths of evil.

Fr. Billy Swan Through the mystery of that water and wine, we truly do share in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity.

Fr. Steve Grunow The best of Christmas carols, which express not only the mystery of Christ’s holy birth, but also the total event of the Incarnation, are remarkably devoid of sentimentality.

Richard Taylor It is true: Life with a dumbphone will at first be painfully tedious and stiflingly silent and frightfully boring. But only at first.