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• December, 2016

• A Strange Season for Resolutions (1) | Kate Whittaker Cousino
• Sometimes Baby Steps Don’t Cut It (2) | Devra Torres
• Wojtyla and Tymieniecka’s friendship (0) | Sam Roeble
• ᴲExistential (and ᵾUniversal) Friendship (0) | Sam Roeble
• How the Light gets in (1) | Kate Whittaker Cousino
• On Not Growing Weary in Well-Doing (1) | Devra Torres
• Friendship in The Four Feathers (0) | Sam Roeble
• Friendship and Hope in Lord Jim (0) | Sam Roeble
• Can the soul be Experienced? (2) | John Corrigan
• Looking for Love in the Manger (3) | Kate Whittaker Cousino
• The Banks and Beauty Parlors of Grandma Europe (9) | Devra Torres
• Rethinking Free Will? (4) | Devra Torres
• What does “hermeneutics of continuity” mean for us? (8) | Katie van Schaijik
• Contra the Dubia, part 3: the explanatory note [corrective comment added] (8) | Katie van Schaijik
• Contra the Dubia, part 2 (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Using Conversational Techniques on People: Abomination or Common Sense? (6) | Devra Torres
• Contra the Dubia (7) | Katie van Schaijik

• November, 2016

• Imitation Diversity (1) | Devra Torres
• Catholic Relief Services, Cash for the Homeless, and the Needs of Migrants: Unmasking False Dilemmas (3) | Devra Torres
• More reasons to embrace the concept of soulmates (4) | Katie van Schaijik
• All Saints day and the artist’s vocation (3) | Rhett Segall
• Unlikely Pearls of Wisdom, and How Not to Miss Them (0) | Devra Torres
• Personalism at the graveside (6) | Kate Whittaker Cousino
• Subjectivity and conscience (3) | Katie van Schaijik
• How friendship points to the Common Good (Solidarity) (0) | Sam Roeble
• The Alongside Woman on Your Screen (1) | Devra Torres

• October, 2016

• Why is Adulting Suddenly So Hard? (0) | Devra Torres
• A positive Christian and personalist case for belief in soul mates (10) | Katie van Schaijik
• About those Secular Pro-Lifers (3) | Devra Torres
• Penitence the sign of conversion (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Tolkien against allegory (1) | Katie van Schaijik
• Friendship as Means/Ends (0) | Sam Roeble
• Me? A Whitewashed Sepulcher? (5) | Devra Torres
• the undoing of a soul loved and sanctified by Christ and the vileness of such action (0) | Julia
• Real problems with the soul mate concept (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Julia (3) | Julia

• September, 2016

• The idea of soul mates is not nonsense (3) | Katie van Schaijik
• An atheist and a believer imagine meeting God (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• One Weird Trick for Fixing What Ails Your Family Life! (1) | Devra Torres
• Remember, Man, That Thou Art Meat? (0) | Devra Torres
• The prodigal repented (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Mrs. Jellyby vs. St. Teresa of Calcutta (5) | Devra Torres
• Chaput (& the Marines) on Friendship (2) | Sam Roeble
• 7 Quick Takes: Help for the Personalist Tech Addict (0) | Devra Torres

• August, 2016

• Egotism or Altruism? (Hint: It’s a trick question.) (1) | Devra Torres
• Subjectivity and Sts. Monica and Augustine (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Faith, Disney, and the Power of Negative Thinking (0) | Devra Torres
• “The Sadness We Bring To A Diagnosis Should Not Become Our Child’s” (7) | Devra Torres
• Nineteenth century women way ahead of the curve (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Blocked? Me? Or, My Journey from Righteous Indignation to a Modicum of Self-Awareness (2) | Devra Torres
• “He Fit the Description.” (0) | Devra Torres
• Naaman the Syrian and Me: On Finally Becaming a Novena Person (2) | Devra Torres
• Friends of Stein (0) | Sam Roeble
• The Problem of Language: The Gift of Babel (14) | Kate Whittaker Cousino
• Beyond God as Boss Man (0) | Devra Torres
• What is Friendship? (0) | Sam Roeble
• The Problem of Language: The Desire for Communion (2) | Kate Whittaker Cousino
• Jesus is Not Your Buddy, But… (6) | Devra Torres

• July, 2016

• Personhood - other definitions (1) | PeterZ
• Taking That First (Excruciatingly Obvious) Step (7) | Devra Torres
• Amoris Laetitia, chapter four (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• “Who Moved the Stone?” & Mary Magdalene (0) | Sam Roeble
• True encounters (2) | Katie van Schaijik
• Maybe Everything We Know is Wrong. (1) | Devra Torres
• Injustice toward subjectivity (2) | Katie van Schaijik
• Fr. Giertych explains Aquinas (0) | Sam Roeble
• Modesty and the Ontological Shaming of Both Women and Men (6) | Abigail Tardiff
• Nitty-Gritty Applications of the “Universal Destination of Goods” (2) | Devra Torres
• Middlemarch (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• An idea for summer reading—especially if you have any connection to addiction (0) | Katie van Schaijik

• June, 2016

• Aging Gracefully (Or Not) (5) | Devra Torres
• Pride, Humility, and Self-knowledge (2) | Kate Whittaker Cousino
• Alone in meaning, yet a collective (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Seven Quick Takes: Most Marriages are Invalid? (32) | Devra Torres
• Amoris Laetitia, 76 - 88: the goodness keeps coming (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• The kernel of evil (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Clark’s Redeemer (0) | Sam Roeble
• Amoris Laetitia, 58 - 75: a summary of the teaching on marriage, and “headship” nowhere to be found (7) | Katie van Schaijik
• Thresholds (0) | Kate Whittaker Cousino

• May, 2016

• A seriously bad title (7) | Katie van Schaijik
• The fear of the slave (4) | Katie van Schaijik
• The Increasingly Blurry Line between Animal and Person (0) | Devra Torres
• Amoris Laetitia, 39 - 57: The challenges are legion (2) | Katie van Schaijik
• “Devious Dialogue” (0) | Devra Torres
• Transgender teacher in Catholic School (0) | Rhett Segall
• What Are Miracles For? (0) | Devra Torres
• “Loving Your Children’s Freedom” and other impossible ideals (0) | Devra Torres
• Grieving the loss of self-government (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• The Meaning of the Creative Act, part 4 (1) | Jules van Schaijik
• Nobody but a bunch of mothers! (0) | Jules van Schaijik
• America Magazine reviews “My Battle Against Hitler” (3) | Rhett Segall

• April, 2016

• “College Kids Say the Darndest Things”: Some Further Thoughts (2) | Devra Torres
• Amoris Laetitia, 38: What it’s really all about (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Amori Laetitia: 31 - 37, throwing off moral defensiveness and dependency (3) | Katie van Schaijik
• The Limits of “Identifying As” (6) | Devra Torres
• The Overregulated Soul (2) | Devra Torres
• Amoris Laetitia, 28 - 33: the real experience of family life (3) | Katie van Schaijik
• Amoris Laetitia, 19-27:  Enter the master/slave hermeneutic (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Amoris Laetitia, paragraphs 12 - 18 (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• “Live blogging” my reading of Amoris Laetitia (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• First impressions of the new papal exhortation: it’s very personalistic (1) | Katie van Schaijik
• Hello Everyone! First Post. (2) | Josh
• Faces, fear, and free expression (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Check Your Privilege? An Obnoxious Mantra’s Grains of Truth (5) | Devra Torres
• Remembering the Pope of my heart and mind (3) | Katie van Schaijik
• Mothers Angelica and Teresa (0) | Sam Roeble

• March, 2016

• The resurrection of the body (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Approaching the passion personalistically (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Facebook’s Foray into Emotional Response (0) | Devra Torres
• Benedict speaks, and sounds a lot like Francis (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Attention to the individual need (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• “Stop calling breastfeeding ‘natural”? (0) | Devra Torres
• “You needed to know what it felt like.” (0) | Devra Torres
• Up from slavery (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• The true self wants to be known (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Spotlight on victims (0) | Katie van Schaijik

• February, 2016

• Relationality and the meaning of human life (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Transcending the body (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• The Power of “Offering It Up” (0) | Devra Torres
• Queen Esther, the implicit personalist (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• On the CDC and the Bizarrification of Nature (0) | Devra Torres
• On Pink Elephants and Jen Fulwiler’s Conversion Story (5) | Devra Torres

• January, 2016

• “What is this you have done?” (0) | Devra Torres
• Renewing masculinity without forgetting the gains of feminism (1) | Katie van Schaijik
• FFMD, #4:  Modesty and interiority (8) | Katie van Schaijik
• Empathy, photography, and perception: Thoughts on the public display of graphic abortion images (2) | Kate Whittaker Cousino
• About That “Do Unto Others” Part (0) | Devra Torres
• A personalist take on the euthanasia temptation (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Alcoholics Anonymous and Calix Society (0) | Sam Roeble
• Associations of Catholic Faithful Approved by Bishops (17) | Sam Roeble
• “Money Does Not Change You; It Only Unmasks You” (and other thoughts on the Powerball jackpot) (1) | Devra Torres
• FFMD, #3: The problem of free-floating consciences (5) | Katie van Schaijik
• Hanging Onto Your Free Will (All Day Long) (4) | Devra Torres
• Max Scheler and Formation of Persons (0) | Sam Roeble
• Encasement and the person (0) | Katie van Schaijik
• Irreverant Images? (0) | Devra Torres