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December, 2012
- Did Feminism Ruin Women? Partially. (1) | Samantha
- Thoughts on Period of Adjustment (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Some Arguments Against Gay Marriage, and Why They Won’t Work (5) | Devra Torres
- To medicalize evil is to deny personal dignity (6) | Katie van Schaijik
- Chambers vs. Podhoretz on the nature of the battle (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- JPII vs Solipsism (5) | Sam Roeble
- Eternal promises kept in time (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Gaudete Sunday by the Waters of Babylon (5) | Devra Torres
- Prayer Bloopers! Better Make the Kids Write ‘Em Out! (0) | Michael Healy
- Neil Diamond and The Metaphysics of the Person (6) | Michael Healy
- Light of Advent in the dark of December (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Prayer and Fasting: Taking it Personally (0) | Devra Torres
- Guardini on Forgiveness (30) | Michael Healy
- Patient waiting (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Why gender matters (25) | Jules van Schaijik
- Fair Game: Enlarging your Religious Compartment (0) | Devra Torres
- Endings and Beginnings: The Liturgical Year and the Fullness of Joy (1) | Michael Healy
- Personalism in Heidegger’s Being and Time? (4) | Travis Gonzales
November, 2012
- Virtual choirs & the transformative power of music (4) | Jules van Schaijik
- JPII on Different Kinds of Human Needs: Illustrations from Popular Music (0) | Michael Healy
- Good and evil in the human heart (8) | Katie van Schaijik
- Liberty rests on spirituality (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- 7 Quick Takes: Consumerism and its Discontents (6) | Devra Torres
- Forgiveness - Robert Spaemann (2) | Tim Cronin
- Back and Forth (2) | Devra Torres
- The metaphysics of marriage (5) | Katie van Schaijik
- Cardinal Dolan, pastoral personalist (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Three Hopeful Consequences of an Awful Election (10) | Devra Torres
- Wisdom from Wittaker Chambers (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Working Through the Problem of Evil in Personal Experience (0) | Michael Healy
- Coming Soon: Love and Self-Esteem in English! (2) | Devra Torres
- Anti-Spontaneity (1) | Devra Torres
October, 2012
- In Praise of Halloween (4) | Michael Healy
- The contraception crisis (3) | Katie van Schaijik
- Lies, the Empty Chair, and the Rejection of God (2) | Michael Healy
- Evil, Lies, and the Election (8) | Michael Healy
- What’s wrong with Obamacare (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- In Praise of Spontaneity, Under Certain Conditions (3) | Devra Torres
- Religious Freedom under Threat: Panel & Discussion (6) | Jules van Schaijik
- A personalist view of literature (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- Peter (2) | Devra Torres
- Celebrating two great lives (8) | Katie van Schaijik
- Personalism the key to interpreting Vatican II (3) | Katie van Schaijik
- The Gabe Axiom (6) | Devra Torres
- SEALS, Cowboys, and Little Tykes (1) | Michael Healy
- The value of “values” language (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- An Extraordinary Grace (0) | Michael Healy
- Escape from personality (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- Making Sure We Don’t See God as Us Writ Large (continued) (5) | Devra Torres
September, 2012
- Parents, Share Your Faults with Your Kids. They Love It! (3) | Michael Healy
- A God in Our Image and Likeness (6) | Devra Torres
- One More Time: Man and Woman, Head and Heart, Equality and Complementarity (21) | Michael Healy
- Roger Kimball is relatively correct, but not absolutely so (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Contra Fr. Barron on modern philosophy (9) | Katie van Schaijik
- A Personalist Universe (8) | Devra Torres
- Two former Muslims; two ways of opposing Islamism (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Humor and Joy (0) | Devra Torres
- The Pope goes to Lebanon (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Sound advice about the single life starts with personalism (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- How should a Catholic university treat gay alumni? (19) | Katie van Schaijik
- Personalist meditation of the day (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Persons present in their works (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Judge Not, Even During Election Season (7) | Devra Torres
- Whom shall we serve? God or Government? (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Mother Teresa and personal graces (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Catholic social teaching and false equivalencies (3) | Katie van Schaijik
August, 2012
- In Praise of Hypocrisy (No, Not Really) (5) | Devra Torres
- Reading Casti Connubii (and the Tradition) in Light of the Insights of JPII (37) | Michael Healy
- Personalists unite! (1) | Francis Doyle
- Do husbands have authority over their wives? (65) | Katie van Schaijik
- Overcoming Practical Pessimism (23) | Devra Torres
- Equality and Leadership in Marriage: the Example of Van and Davy (23) | Michael Healy
- Boys Love, Not Just to Hit, But to Get Hit. Are Girls the Same? (6) | Michael Healy
- It Takes a Family (0) | Samantha
- Prozac, a consolation for atheism (5) | Jules van Schaijik
- Philosophy and Faith (1) | Daniel Romeyn Davis
- A glaring instance of asking for unprincipled forgiveness (4) | Katie van Schaijik
- On Prayer, Both Second-Hand and Spontaneous (7) | Devra Torres
- Cardinal Dolan disappoints (7) | Katie van Schaijik
- Mark Shea jumps the shark on Paul Ryan (18) | Katie van Schaijik
- Edith Stein, Jewess, Carmelite nun, phenomenologist, personalist, feminist, patroness (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Modesty glasses? (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Are wives supposed to submit to their husbands? (40) | Katie van Schaijik
- Judge Not, and Construct Not, Either. (5) | Devra Torres
- The west won’t be saved by good politics and sound ideas (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Two things I dislike (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- C. S. Lewis on Forgiveness (2) | Devra Torres
- On the Dangers of Reading the Bible as a Kid (5) | Michael Healy
July, 2012
- To get Beauty, bring back the critics! (6) | Jules van Schaijik
- Covering injustice serves to increase it (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life, But What If He Won’t Tell You What It Is? (28) | Devra Torres
- What his contrition has to do with my forgiveness (24) | Jules van Schaijik
- Turning the tables (16) | Katie van Schaijik
- More on Unprincipled Forgiveness (90) | Janet Smith
- 33 minutes on the greatness of Plato (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Six minutes on the greatness of Plato (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Guilty of Unprincipled Forgiveness or Model Christian? (92) | Janet Smith
- Justice and truth (7) | Katie van Schaijik
- Dr. Seuss: Personalist or Radical Individualist? (3) | Devra Torres
- Input to the “JP II on treating patients as persons” Reading Circle (1) | Nanda
- Persons, Friendship & Technology (8) | Jules van Schaijik
- von Hildebrand, St. Francis and St. Benedict (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Gaps between theory and practice (33) | Katie van Schaijik
- St. Benedict and phenomenology (29) | Katie van Schaijik
- God is a Personalist: the anecdotal evidence (5) | Devra Torres
- Response to “Forgiveness and Dysfunction” (7) | Michael Healy
- Forgiveness and dysfunction (25) | Katie van Schaijik
- Examples of “False” Charity (9) | Michael Healy
- A nun uses TOB to critique (unseen) soft porn pop movie (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Going Through Christ to the Other (25) | Michael Healy
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool (3) | Michael Healy
- Grains of Truth (1) | Devra Torres
June, 2012
- Questions, Answers, and Mystery (1) | Michael Healy
- Obama’s Empericism (4) | Rhett Segall
- The concept of unprincipled forgiveness (45) | Katie van Schaijik
- What are you doing for religious freedom? (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Despite the Hype, Toss PowerPoint in the Can (6) | Michael Healy
- Blankenhorn succumbs to gay marriage advocacy (8) | Katie van Schaijik
- Symptoms of Deeper Problems in Muslim Theocracies (as in Western Democracies) (1) | Michael Healy
- An atheist converts in a very personalist way (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Population Problems (even in the Islamic World) (2) | Michael Healy
- Honest associations (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- A Recovering Luddite Looks at the Internet (2) | Devra Torres
- Love and Self-Esteem: English translation in progress (3) | Devra Torres
- Hoffer the personalist (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Personal dignity and belonging (9) | Katie van Schaijik
- Kierkegaard Goes to Walmart (2) | Devra Torres
- Perichoresis, Indwelling, and Our Near-Neigh Dwellers-Bors (3) | Tim Cronin
- Toward a Personalist Approach to Homosexual Attraction (12) | Michael Healy
- Philadelphia chosen for next World Meeting of Families (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Purity of Heart, part 6 (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- The post-modern loss of truth (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Overregulating the Person (9) | Devra Torres
May, 2012
- Defilement and the Challenge of Addressing Evil (11) | Michael Healy
- The power of the pure (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- A Problem and a Fear about SSM (5) | Michael Healy
- Purity of Heart, part 5 (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- Purity of Heart, Part 2 (3) | Rhett Segall
- Oh, No, Not That Again! Revisiting Self-Esteem (11) | Devra Torres
- Confusions of the day in the SSM debate (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- To speak or not to speak: a dilemma in the debate surrounding SSM (17) | Katie van Schaijik
- Misery and Genuine Hope (0) | Michael Healy
- Purity of Heart, part 4 (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- The Outsourced Self? (10) | Devra Torres
- Cardinal George sounds a strong warning (12) | Katie van Schaijik
- About being under the circumstances (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Misery and Pessimism (0) | Michael Healy
- Is Kierkegaard expecting too much from mere mortals? (6) | Jules van Schaijik
- Judge Not? (8) | Devra Torres
- Bumping up against a bogus notion of charity (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Faith: real and concrete and human (4) | Katie van Schaijik
- Misery and Earthly Optimism (2) | Michael Healy
- A passing thought on hoarding (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Purity of Heart, part 3 (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- Procreation and Human Dignity in the Philippines, or What About the Hard Cases? (2) | Devra Torres
- Teach your children well (10) | Katie van Schaijik
April, 2012
- Misery and Escapism (3) | Michael Healy
- Purity of Heart, part 2 (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- Response to Kierkegaard’s Purity of Heart (4) | Rhett Segall
- In Defense of Unimpressive Persons (13) | Devra Torres
- The Transcendent and the Practical Perspectives on LIfe—II (0) | Michael Healy
- Some thoughts in defense of Cardinal Schönborn (7) | Father Forlano
- Gabriel Marcel (0) | Michael Healy
- Søren Kierkegaard (0) | Michael Healy
- Dietrich von Hildebrand (0) | John Crosby
- John Henry Newman (0) | John Crosby
- Karol Wojtyla / John Paul II (0) | John Crosby
- Should A Cardinal Confirm A Practicing Homosexual Parish Council Member? Some Critical Reflections (16) | Josef Seifert
- Angst and the Christian Life (4) | Daniel Romeyn Davis
- Purity of Heart, part 1 (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- What The Hunger Games miss (53) | Katie van Schaijik
- Diversity: Reclaiming a Buzzword (10) | Devra Torres
- Von Hildebrand’s view of love (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Silence (4) | Jules van Schaijik
- Virginity Burning a Hole in Your Pocket (1) | Samantha
- Love’s Knowledge (1) | Samantha
- Radically Individual Personhood (0) | Samantha
- Sexualityism and public policy (0) | Clayton
- Revelation, Interiority, and the Gift (1) | Fr. Michael Najim
- PODCASTS on The Acting Person (7) | Quinton
- Catholicism and Personalism: Not Such Strange Bedfellows (20) | Devra Torres
- The Perfection of Virtues (1) | Gregory Borse
- On the Paradox of Vice (3) | Gregory Borse
- Alice von Hildebrand comparing compassion, pity and mercy (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- The interior sufferings of Our Lord (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Kierkegaard in search of solitary individuals (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- via crucis (1) | Clayton
March, 2012
- The Transcendent and the Practical Perspectives on Life—I (1) | Michael Healy
- Fr. Barron’s take on “The Hunger Games” (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- ND prof says, “The immorality of birth control is no longer a teaching of the Catholic Church.” (6) | Michael Healy
- The World of Work and the World of Leisure (1) | Michael Healy
- The Selfhood of Mary (6) | Jules van Schaijik
- What’s wrong with opining (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Phenomenology and the art of persuasion (2) | Jules van Schaijik
- The Hunger Games (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- To restore marriage, teach truth (4) | Katie van Schaijik
- Purposeful emptiness (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Bonus wisdom from Alice von Hildebrand (17) | Jules van Schaijik
- The Dignity of the Human Embryo (2) | Samantha
- Does Freedom of Conscience not Matter if Obama pays? - AND Socrates’ Advice to Cardinal Dolan (9) | Josef Seifert
- What is authentic healthcare for women? (9) | Anna Halpine
- Mark Steyn, secular prophet (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- The JP II generation (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- A priest lays out the wrong of the HHS mandate (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Two Thoughts on “One Flesh” (15) | Michael Healy
- PP Member fights the good fight (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- And Martha Must Wait (0) | Gregory Borse
- What is “Totalitarian” and Totalitarianism? Is the USA really moving to become a totalitarian state? (2) | Josef Seifert
- Superactuality and subconscious (4) | Katie van Schaijik
- Has the USA become a Totalitarian State? Grave Attacks on the Freedom of Faith Conscience and Creed (11) | Josef Seifert
- Liturgy and Personality, part 4 (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- Persons vs. Power (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- New Novel (23) | richard sherlock
- Spiritual reading? (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- The Personhood of Human Humans (5) | Gregory Borse
February, 2012
- The negative effects of ‘thinking the unthinkable’ (13) | Jules van Schaijik
- The Personhood of Human Embryos (7) | Samantha
- Blessed Are They Who Mourn (0) | Michael Healy
- God as Truth (0) | Teresa Manidis
- Personal Response to Christ (0) | Teresa Manidis
- Lent as a Season of Love (3) | Teresa Manidis
- Joy in the Midst of Sorrow (1) | Michael Healy
- Holy cosmetics (8) | Katie van Schaijik
- The lie underlying the culture of death (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Do we want our politicians to be consistent? (53) | Jules van Schaijik
- Zell Kravinsky: a case in point (1) | Jules van Schaijik
- On the Unbearable Lightness of Sex on TV (13) | Michael Healy
- The Abuse of Language and the Dehumanization of the Person (13) | Laurence
- Deceit and coercion: different means, same end (1) | Jules van Schaijik
- Second Member Contest (4) | Katie van Schaijik
- “Forgiving Oneself”—What Might It Mean? (18) | Michael Healy
- The Bishop and the Baby (14) | Gregory Borse
- The President becomes Henry VIII (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Pope Benedict’s Lenten Message-“Let us be concerned for each other,..” (Heb 10:24) (0) | Mike Wallacavage
- Who or what cares? (5) | Katie van Schaijik
- Solidarity (2) | John Crosby
- Christianity in the news (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Who is my plesion? (5) | Tim Cronin
- The death of one of the faithful (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Reflections on silence (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Liturgy and Personality, part 3 (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- Embodiment and Morality (0) | John Crosby
January, 2012
- Those amazing Dutchmen (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- Love as the Task of Philosophy (2) | Samantha
- And three for Yuval Levin! (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Narcissism: A Dangerous Self-love (0) | Samantha
- Three cheers for Bishop Olmsted! (1) | Katie van Schaijik
- Love and the will; over-simplifying births confusion (7) | Scott Johnston
- Moral confusion run amok (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Personalism in My Fair Lady (2) | Samantha
- Embodiment (1) | John Crosby
- Ronda Chervin’s conversion story (10) | Katie van Schaijik
- Roe vs. Wade (0) | Teresa Manidis
- Flight from reality (32) | Katie van Schaijik
- A personalist approach to the Pro-life cause (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- A Grief Observed (6) | Samantha
- Contraception and the Fall (15) | Colleen Toder
- The Body as a Temple: Cultivating Sexual Ethics in the Modern World (1) | Samantha
- Forgiveness: What Completes It? What Cripples It? (15) | Michael Healy
- What Newman and Aristotle mean by the Lesbian Canon (0) | Michael Healy
- Rediscovering the Body as a Temple (3) | Samantha
- John Henry Newman on the education of adolescents (5) | Jules van Schaijik
- David L. Schindler. The Given as Gift: (7) | Tim Cronin
- Conjugal love is misunderstood if its gift character is overlooked (5) | Katie van Schaijik
- Self-Donation (0) | John Crosby
- The Heart in Western Philosophy (5) | Samantha
- I Actually Remember Rosa Parks (18) | Michael Healy
- Do souls have colors? (13) | Katie van Schaijik
- Two new personalist profiles (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- On a certain self-love (13) | John Crosby
- I demand everything I want! (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- (dis)orientation (9) | Gregory Borse
- Patience is a Virtue (1) | Michael Healy
- From “pro-choice” to ardently pro-life (4) | Katie van Schaijik
- Interfaith statement on marriage issued (37) | Katie van Schaijik
- Freedom and Truth (0) | John Crosby
- First Member Contest Announced (0) | Katie van Schaijik
- A thought about sanctimony (15) | Katie van Schaijik
- Creating the Future (11) | TorahJew
- Memory and identity (2) | Katie van Schaijik
- Introducing TorahJew (8) | TorahJew
- Do Good Anyway (10) | Teresa Manidis
- After 35th Wedding Anniversary: Reflections on Fidelity (0) | Michael Healy
- Drummer manifests reverence for music (3) | Scott Johnston
- Liturgy and Personality, part 2 (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- Von Hildebrand’s vision in a word: Reverence (6) | Katie van Schaijik
- An Ontology of Love: A Patristic Reading of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s “The Nature of Love” (0) | Tim Cronin
- Bonhoeffer II: on the objectivity of marriage (0) | Jules van Schaijik
- Human Freedom (1) | John Crosby
- A personalist President? (2) | Katie van Schaijik