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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 (1) | 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? (60) | 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