During this Christmas holiday, I’ve been reading Anthony Gottlieb’s breezy and enjoyable history of modern philosophy, entitled The Dream of Enlightenment. Throughout his treatment of such figures as Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, and Voltaire, Gottlieb reveals […]
Over the Christmas break, I spent a fair amount of time binge-watching Jordan Peterson videos. For those not in the know, Peterson is not the latest hip-hop sensation; he is a psychology professor from Toronto […]
There is a common, and I’ll admit somewhat understandable, interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy that sees the great work as a celebration of the virtues of the Shire, that little town […]
Stephen Hawking was a great theoretical physicist and cosmologist, perhaps the most important since Einstein. It is only right that his remains have been interred alongside those of Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey. He was, […]
NOTE: Bishop Barron offered the following intervention at the Vatican during the 2018 Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment. For more Synod content from Bishop Barron, visit WordFromRome.com, where you’ll find behind-the-scenes […]
Grounds for hope are not found in institutional reform, psychological analysis, or new programs and protocols, but rather in a return to Jesus Christ. […]
The bishops of the United States—all of us—should petition the Holy Father to form a team, made up mostly of faithful lay Catholics, to empower […]
Does the Church’s welcome imply that everyone is fine just as he or she is? Here we have to answer with a rather resounding no. […]
We once could trust that many people would come to our institutions—schools, seminaries, and parishes—to be evangelized, but we absolutely cannot assume that today. […]
What is bothersome in the latest film is the emergence of a new and much more problematic motif—namely, the moral equivalence of human beings and […]
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