All posts by Katie van Schaijik:
September, 2022
- Being light in the darkness (0)
February, 2022
- A manifesto for parents with kids in school (0)
- New course offering for local young adults (0)
- Thoughts at Sunday Mass (0)
- Room to live and be and act together (0)
- Structural reform isn’t “rupture”. On the contrary. (0)
August, 2021
- Authority in the Church (0)
May, 2021
- Roots and reforms (0)
- What is the Church, according to the NT? (1)
- What is a Constitution? (7)
- Free our faces! (0)
November, 2020
- What can energize the laity? (6)
- The difference between slaves and brothers (0)
- Who is competent? (0)
October, 2020
- Who decides? (0)
September, 2020
- Two different meanings of “systemic” (4)
- Quick takes on the role of laity in the Church (1)
- Clericalism is the air we breath (0)
- No masks at mass, please, unless you’re sick or vulnerable (31)
July, 2020
- A timely hypothetical (9)
June, 2020
- Consider a concrete case of parish affairs (5)
- How would a lay association help? (1)
- Rebuilding after the collapse (3)
- Standing and misunderstanding (9)
- Before we join a movement, let’s get our moral concepts straight (0)
- Unite and conquer (0)
- The time is at hand (7)
May, 2020
- A podcast about Newman’s personalism (3)
- Let’s envision the rebuild as we face the collapse (0)
- Some debts can only be paid with gratitude and sacrifice (0)
- Disburden bishops; empower the laity (0)
- The gist of Acts 6 (5)
November, 2019
- The true antidote to corruption (0)
October, 2019
- Feeling goodness (0)
- Newman the personalist (1)
September, 2019
- Justice entails due distribution of power (0)
August, 2019
- Ecclesial fertility comes from a spousal relation between priest and laity (16)
July, 2019
- Never Look Away: head and shoulders above the norm (0)
- To be human, a corporate body needs a soul and vice versa (0)
- Reciprocity is a condition for achieving truth about all things personal (6)
- Why is the priesthood reserved for (heterosexual) men? (3)
- Why is sex sacred? (0)
- The difference between accompaniment and discipleship (0)
- Back in the saddle (1)
May, 2019
- The spousal love between priest and laity is meant to be concrete and personal (8)
- The relation between priest and laity is meant to be spousal (2)
- Interview with the Katholieke Niewsblad (5)
- Distinction and complementarity between laity and clergy in the early Church (0)
- Confusing papal documents (1)
- Conscience and “original truth” (0)
- Disagreeing with Weigel (5)
- Missing the master/slave dynamic (0)
March, 2019
- The clericalist version of mansplaining (18)
- Theology of the Body Symposium in The Netherlands (0)
September, 2018
- The logic of presumptions (0)
- We need a new principle to balance “presumption of innocence” (3)
- Rationale for a lay awakening (0)
August, 2018
- It’s not okay to pressure a Pope to resign (4)
- Money and the ecclesial status quo (3)
June, 2018
- Right handling of wrong (0)
May, 2018
- What is the new paradigm? Why do we need it? (0)
- Law and judgment in the new paradigm (0)
March, 2018
- New file photo (0)
- About that paradigm shift (15)
- What do I have against Archbishop Chaput? (2)
January, 2018
- What is accompaniment? Part 2 (1)
- Subjectivity in antiquity (0)
- “Your truth” is real and important (9)
December, 2017
- What is “accompaniment”? Part 1 (8)
November, 2017
- How does the Pope see the problem? (14)
- A critique of Fr. Weinandy’s letter to the Pope (21)
October, 2017
- Don’t we need a coming-of-age sacrament? (6)
September, 2017
- Can an “irregular union” ever not be adulterous? (12)
- What do I have against modesty? (5)
July, 2017
- A gift of grace along the way (1)
- A key difference between objective and subjective truth (1)
- Thoughts on subjectivity (3)
June, 2017
- An example of what I mean by “slave side morality” (2)
May, 2017
- Please stop defining love as self-giving! (1)
- The difference subjectivity makes: a tiny anecdote (13)
April, 2017
- A passing thought (0)
February, 2017
- Ownership of wrongdoing key to reconciliation (0)
- Moving beyond the Dubia to the issue at hand (2)
December, 2016
- What does “hermeneutics of continuity” mean for us? (8)
- Contra the Dubia, part 3: the explanatory note [corrective comment added] (8)
- Contra the Dubia, part 2 (0)
- Contra the Dubia (7)
November, 2016
- More reasons to embrace the concept of soulmates (4)
- Subjectivity and conscience (3)
October, 2016
- A positive Christian and personalist case for belief in soul mates (10)
- Penitence the sign of conversion (0)
- Tolkien against allegory (1)
- Real problems with the soul mate concept (0)
September, 2016
- The idea of soul mates is not nonsense (3)
- An atheist and a believer imagine meeting God (0)
- The prodigal repented (0)
August, 2016
- Subjectivity and Sts. Monica and Augustine (0)
- Nineteenth century women way ahead of the curve (0)
July, 2016
- Amoris Laetitia, chapter four (0)
- True encounters (2)
- Injustice toward subjectivity (2)
- Middlemarch (0)
- An idea for summer reading—especially if you have any connection to addiction (0)
June, 2016
- Alone in meaning, yet a collective (0)
- Amoris Laetitia, 76 - 88: the goodness keeps coming (0)
- The kernel of evil (0)
- Amoris Laetitia, 58 - 75: a summary of the teaching on marriage, and “headship” nowhere to be found (7)
May, 2016
- A seriously bad title (7)
- The fear of the slave (4)
- Amoris Laetitia, 39 - 57: The challenges are legion (2)
- Grieving the loss of self-government (0)
April, 2016
- Amoris Laetitia, 38: What it’s really all about (0)
- Amori Laetitia: 31 - 37, throwing off moral defensiveness and dependency (3)
- Amoris Laetitia, 28 - 33: the real experience of family life (3)
- Amoris Laetitia, 19-27: Enter the master/slave hermeneutic (0)
- Amoris Laetitia, paragraphs 12 - 18 (0)
- “Live blogging” my reading of Amoris Laetitia (0)
- First impressions of the new papal exhortation: it’s very personalistic (1)
- Faces, fear, and free expression (0)
- Remembering the Pope of my heart and mind (3)
March, 2016
- The resurrection of the body (0)
- Approaching the passion personalistically (0)
- Benedict speaks, and sounds a lot like Francis (0)
- Attention to the individual need (0)
- Up from slavery (0)
- The true self wants to be known (0)
- Spotlight on victims (0)
February, 2016
- Relationality and the meaning of human life (0)
- Transcending the body (0)
- Queen Esther, the implicit personalist (0)
January, 2016
- Renewing masculinity without forgetting the gains of feminism (1)
- FFMD, #4: Modesty and interiority (8)
- A personalist take on the euthanasia temptation (0)
- FFMD, #3: The problem of free-floating consciences (5)
- Encasement and the person (0)
December, 2015
- FFMD (Fragment From My Desktop), number 2: Paul Claudel on destructive self-absorption (0)
- Fragments from my desktop, number 1: Marriage and modernity (0)
- The dialogue within (0)
- “Stepping back” the paradoxical beginning of love and communion (0)
- Advent mission (6)
November, 2015
- Cardinal Schönborn, my teacher: Lesson 1 (0)
October, 2015
- Life and dreams (0)
- There it is again: master/slave vs. mutual love and service (0)
- Threats to the person, threats to the family (0)
- Bring back repentance (0)
- Pesonalist reflections on the papal visit (1)
September, 2015
- Receiving charity is greater than self-sufficiency (0)
- Sorting the ego, the false self, and the true self (2)
- Remaining strangers (5)
August, 2015
- Some essential differences between Christian and Islamic views of feminine sexuality (3)
- Anniversary of Newman’s entry into Reality (0)
- Posting and reposting (0)
July, 2015
- The master/slave dynamic in writing (2)
- It’s my evil too (2)
- The master/slave dynamic in marriage, discretely illustrated (0)
- The duty to show emotion (1)
- A newer, more dangerous kind of atheism (12)
- Wojtyla on fatherhood, part I (1)
- Wrestling with the divine (0)
- Unhappy 4th (12)
June, 2015
- Moral goodness doesn’t come through punishment (12)
- The vulnerable will suffer most, as always (0)
- The power of the Supreme Court (9)
- It’s not about loyalty; it’s about receptivity (2)
- About personalism being the key to interpreting Pope Francis, I was right (0)
- The interpersonal dimension of belief (0)
- Nature’s abundance, our need (0)
- More on the receptive feature of love (0)
- Misunderstanding love (0)
- RIP Elizabeth Eliot (0)
- Where’s the repentance? (1)
- Right and wrong modes of influence (0)
- Forgiveness from the heart (6)
- In order to give, we first have to have received (0)
- Overcoming clericalism (11)
- A few thoughts on the Duggar case (2)
May, 2015
- All true charity is a personal encounter of equals in need (1)
- Conditions in relationships (0)
- Football and moral formation (0)
- Wellness and pain (1)
- Opposites of freedom (3)
- Raising children (0)
- Relativism in a nutshell (0)
- Facing dysfunction (7)
April, 2015
- What is violence? (6)
- Violent mothers are a big part of the problem (mea culpa!) (1)
- Modern goods for the family [UPDATED with link] (0)
- Needs become graces; wounds heal (4)
- The prodigal liberality of the father (13)
- Programs for groups are not the same as love (0)
March, 2015
- How should we respond to the controversy in Indiana? (9)
- To judge or not to judge? (0)
- New initiative for members: Read with Us (0)
- Theology the body captured in doll conversion story (3)
- Capital punishment (0)
- Conscience interference starts young (3)
February, 2015
- Repentance and forgiveness aren’t gotten without vulnerability (6)
- Self-donation and something else key about love (1)
- The Magna Carta and modernity: it’s about limits on power (0)
- The Pope strikes a personalist chord once again (2)
January, 2015
- Liberalism in religion and morals vs. liberalism in temper and mode (0)
- Was the Pope mocking large families? (12)
- Nonviolent resistance is not another term for pacifism (0)
- We need a spirituality for the neglected side of the master/slave hermeneutic (1)
- What needs interpreting? (0)
- Christmas fail (0)
- 3 more personalist themes for Christmas (0)
December, 2014
- On the sixth day of Christmas: Royalty (0)
- On the fifth day of Christmas: universal and particular vocations (0)
- On the fourth day of Christmas: focus on the family (0)
- Day 3: Concreteness and historicity (0)
- 12 personalist themes for 12 days of Christmas: Day 2, Embodiment (0)
- 12 personalist themes for 12 days Christmas: Day 1, Expectation (0)
- Attending to the interior (5)
- Random personal encounter (0)
- Some power struggles are good and necessary (4)
November, 2014
- The problem with “consenting adults” (7)
- Cutting ties (8)
- Why we need fraternity maybe even more than charity (0)
- One of love’s opposites: Contempt (2)
- Interpreting the Pope through personalism (6)
October, 2014
- The death of a priest and a personalist (0)
- Personalism and the Judeo-Christian tradition (20)
- A call for radical, embodied love (7)
September, 2014
- On speaking what we feel (10)
- About shaking the dust from our sandals (1)
- If it doesn’t feel like love, it isn’t (3)
- Truth and mercy in human experience (1)
August, 2014
- Testing for soundness in relationships (11)
- Not whether I meant to offend, but whether I did offend: that is the question (9)
- Dietrich von Hildebrand and Victor Frankl (0)
- Life and death in a look (1)
July, 2014
- Searching for community (105)
- Conversation with John Crosby (0)
- A conversation with John F. Crosby (0)
- DHLP Call for Papers on the Power of Beauty (0)
- Tenderness and gallantry (2)
- Cardinal Dolan disappoints (26)
- A Benedictine way of philosophy (1)
- Conversational sins (1)
- Modesty and misogyny (19)
- What’s wrong with defining love as an act of will? (3)
June, 2014
- The opposite of nostalgia (2)
- Newman and Caesar (0)
- Thoughts on modesty abroad, in three vignettes (32)
April, 2014
- Two personalist popes canonized (7)
- Montgomery on modernity (0)
March, 2014
- A memoir of spiritual abuse and recovery (21)
- The potent places of salvation history (2)
- Teaching kids about sex (4)
- RIP Ann Kiemel (0)
February, 2014
- Over-protection cripples children (0)
- Some relationships come with terms built-in (0)
- No way out but through (1)
- Love is unconditional; relationships have terms (6)
January, 2014
- Other people are the way to grace (11)
- How to rid yourself of gall (4)
December, 2013
- Recovering Christmas joy (8)
- Moral problems aren’t solved by better economic policies (0)
- A Sinners Guide for the Self-righteous (41)
- To be fully human is to be more than human (0)
November, 2013
- The personalism of Pope John XXIII (1)
October, 2013
- Being in the heart of the church (15)
- On owning and not owning our property (0)
- The birthplace of Dietrich von Hildebrand (2)
- The ferocity of goodness (0)
September, 2013
- On minding our own beeswax and letting the Pope be Pope (48)
- Key differences between Catholic and leftist ideas of social justice (2)
August, 2013
- How do we DO personalism? (2)
- Dr. Allender on abuse and recovery (11)
- Layers of being (5)
- Self-possession precedes self-giving (23)
July, 2013
- The many superabundant goods of an apple tree (3)
- Separating sex and love (8)
- Anniversary interview with Alice von Hildebrand (5)
- Von Hildebrand conference underway (2)
- Fake wisdom (4)
- On the problem of overlooking not-beautiful women (1)
June, 2013
- 8 Reminders for fathers of marriageable daughters (11)
- Alice von Hildebrand on love and suffering (0)
- Tenderness watch (0)
- Belonging and identity (0)
- Two new items for my case against “unprincipled forgiveness” (2)
- Mercies hurt (3)
- Interview with Hannah Arendt (4)
May, 2013
- The body matters (0)
- What’ right with feminism (0)
- A short thought about suffering (5)
- Heaven is a person (3)
- Notes on Jean Vanier, 1: Healing of fear (1)
- Tenderness and maturity (7)
- Personalists in practice (0)
April, 2013
- Cults and co-dependency: how to detect the virus (5)
- Not all pursuit of truth is good (4)
- Good words from Archbishop Chaput (0)
- The ethics of organ donation (0)
- The cause of truth is the cause of life (0)
- Good and truth unify, evil and untruth divide (0)
- Promoting justice (2)
March, 2013
- A few personalist insights about conjugal love (10)
- What leads to atheism? (0)
- Legal recognition of same sex relations will not lead to more monogamy, but less (1)
- On the need to recover our sense of the value of persons as ends in themselves (0)
- Renewing the Church and restoring her tarnished image (2)
- Beauty ever ancient, ever new (3)
- The sudden moral inversion (5)
- Tidbit from an interview with Cardinal George (0)
February, 2013
- The empty chair (0)
- New translations deepen the personal dimension of the Mass (0)
- Sperm banks and father deprivation (0)
- God’s will and ours: how they meet (10)
- A conversation at the gym about obedience vs. creativity (4)
- The evangelical power of beauty (4)
- Our decisions belong to us; we are responsible for them (47)
- Person, office, freedom, duty (1)
- Mental injustices an obstacle to communion (5)
- On the drastic need to recover a sense of what it means to be a lady (0)
January, 2013
- Being pro-abortion out of love (plus some lies) (0)
- A short post about moralizing (0)
- A long post about self-assertion as a moral call (1)
- Von Hildebrand and the health of the soul (7)
- Spiritual abuse (1)
- Personal impediments to faith (4)
- Person class underway. Do join in! (0)
- Deep and high knowledge comes through love (0)
- Passive aggression is not a synonym for non-violent resistance (2)
- Stop and think (0)
December, 2012
- Thoughts on Period of Adjustment (2)
- To medicalize evil is to deny personal dignity (6)
- Chambers vs. Podhoretz on the nature of the battle (2)
- Eternal promises kept in time (0)
- Light of Advent in the dark of December (0)
- Patient waiting (1)
November, 2012
- Good and evil in the human heart (8)
- Liberty rests on spirituality (1)
- The metaphysics of marriage (5)
- Cardinal Dolan, pastoral personalist (0)
- Wisdom from Wittaker Chambers (0)
October, 2012
- The contraception crisis (3)
- What’s wrong with Obamacare (0)
- Celebrating two great lives (8)
- Personalism the key to interpreting Vatican II (3)
- The value of “values” language (0)
September, 2012
- Roger Kimball is relatively correct, but not absolutely so (0)
- Contra Fr. Barron on modern philosophy (9)
- Two former Muslims; two ways of opposing Islamism (1)
- The Pope goes to Lebanon (0)
- Sound advice about the single life starts with personalism (0)
- How should a Catholic university treat gay alumni? (19)
- Personalist meditation of the day (2)
- Persons present in their works (0)
- Whom shall we serve? God or Government? (1)
- Mother Teresa and personal graces (2)
- Catholic social teaching and false equivalencies (3)
August, 2012
- Do husbands have authority over their wives? (65)
- A glaring instance of asking for unprincipled forgiveness (4)
- Cardinal Dolan disappoints (7)
- Mark Shea jumps the shark on Paul Ryan (18)
- Edith Stein, Jewess, Carmelite nun, phenomenologist, personalist, feminist, patroness (2)
- Modesty glasses? (1)
- Are wives supposed to submit to their husbands? (40)
- The west won’t be saved by good politics and sound ideas (1)
- Two things I dislike (1)
July, 2012
- Covering injustice serves to increase it (0)
- Turning the tables (16)
- 33 minutes on the greatness of Plato (0)
- Six minutes on the greatness of Plato (0)
- Justice and truth (7)
- von Hildebrand, St. Francis and St. Benedict (2)
- Gaps between theory and practice (33)
- St. Benedict and phenomenology (29)
- Forgiveness and dysfunction (25)
- A nun uses TOB to critique (unseen) soft porn pop movie (1)
June, 2012
- The concept of unprincipled forgiveness (45)
- What are you doing for religious freedom? (0)
- Blankenhorn succumbs to gay marriage advocacy (8)
- An atheist converts in a very personalist way (1)
- Honest associations (0)
- Hoffer the personalist (0)
- Personal dignity and belonging (9)
- Philadelphia chosen for next World Meeting of Families (0)
- The post-modern loss of truth (2)
May, 2012
- The power of the pure (0)
- Confusions of the day in the SSM debate (0)
- To speak or not to speak: a dilemma in the debate surrounding SSM (17)
- Cardinal George sounds a strong warning (12)
- About being under the circumstances (2)
- Bumping up against a bogus notion of charity (0)
- Faith: real and concrete and human (4)
- A passing thought on hoarding (2)
- Teach your children well (10)
April, 2012
- What The Hunger Games miss (53)
- Von Hildebrand’s view of love (2)
- Alice von Hildebrand comparing compassion, pity and mercy (0)
- The interior sufferings of Our Lord (0)
March, 2012
- What’s wrong with opining (1)
- The Hunger Games (1)
- To restore marriage, teach truth (4)
- Purposeful emptiness (0)
- Mark Steyn, secular prophet (0)
- The JP II generation (1)
- A priest lays out the wrong of the HHS mandate (2)
- PP Member fights the good fight (1)
- Superactuality and subconscious (4)
- Persons vs. Power (0)
- Spiritual reading? (2)
February, 2012
- Holy cosmetics (8)
- The lie underlying the culture of death (0)
- Second Member Contest (4)
- The President becomes Henry VIII (0)
- Who or what cares? (5)
- Christianity in the news (1)
- The death of one of the faithful (0)
- Reflections on silence (1)
January, 2012
- Those amazing Dutchmen (0)
- And three for Yuval Levin! (1)
- Three cheers for Bishop Olmsted! (1)
- Moral confusion run amok (2)
- Ronda Chervin’s conversion story (10)
- Flight from reality (32)
- A personalist approach to the Pro-life cause (2)
- Conjugal love is misunderstood if its gift character is overlooked (5)
- Do souls have colors? (13)
- Two new personalist profiles (0)
- I demand everything I want! (0)
- From “pro-choice” to ardently pro-life (4)
- Interfaith statement on marriage issued (37)
- First Member Contest Announced (0)
- A thought about sanctimony (15)
- Memory and identity (2)
- Von Hildebrand’s vision in a word: Reverence (6)
- A personalist President? (2)
December, 2011
- Fr. Ker on Chesterton (0)
- Urbi et Orbi (1)
- Unto us a child is given (3)
- Fun Christmas surprise (2)
- Christmas links (0)
- Bonhoeffer stresses the role of human will in conjugal love (0)
- Going to visit Lily again (0)
- Peter Hitchens’ eulogy for his brother (3)
- Medieval woman philosopher to be named Doctor of the Church (1)
- Alice von Hildebrand on boredom (3)
- Visiting Lily with members on our minds (1)
- Individualism not quite the answer (8)
- “Passive” virtues eminently social (0)
- Lyricism necessary in love (0)
- What about God offends? (1)
- First Reading Circle podcast (13)
- Good and bad analogies (0)
- Self-preoccupation not necessarily selfish (2)
November, 2011
- Want personality? Live the Liturgy. (4)
- The dialog between the personality and the liturgy (0)
- Ego-centrism the root of moral indifference (0)
- The personalist view of marriage is not anti-modern (0)
- von Hildebrand on gratitude (0)
- Creation so vast and varied; persons so small (1)
- About the word limit (0)
- Personhood and the Kingship of Christ (4)
- Dr. Peter Damgaard Hansen at IIC (2)
- Von Hildebrand’s joy in truth (2)
- Is it all Hegel’s fault? (14)
- Disposing over my own existence (0)
- Liturgy and Personality (3)
- The Tabor Vision of love (1)
- Courtship course coming (6)
- The kindness of strangers (0)
- Practical wisdom about love (0)
October, 2011
- Frances Chesterton, kindred spirit (0)
- Public morality and the common good (1)
- Validating feelings (3)
February, 2011
- Choice and borderline personality disorder (0)
January, 2011
- A personalist approach to Natural Family Planning (0)
December, 2010
- Fr. John Courtney Murray (0)
- Christmas meditation (0)
- A feast of beauty brought to you by mind-blowing technology (0)
- Advent souls (0)
- Should we say “no” to facebook? (0)
- Persons and responsibility (0)
- The vision at the center of it all (0)
- Benedict on condoms (29)
November, 2010
- Mildred Jefferson, heroine for life (1)
- Love and permanence (0)
October, 2010
- Newman’s influence (0)
- Fatiguing us into compliance (0)
- Imagining communism (0)
- 119th birthday of Edith Stein (2)
- 121st birthday of Dietrich von Hildebrand, beautiful man (0)
- Newman becomes Catholic (0)
- Personal bonds (0)
- Sofia Tolstoy and feminism (4)
September, 2010
- What’s wrong with this answer? (0)
- Benedict on Newman (0)
- Personalism at our founding (0)
- Is love not enough? (2)
- Newman Beatified today (0)
- Deliberations (0)
July, 2010
- It is not good for man to be alone (7)
June, 2010
- Resisting the objectification women (3)
- Von Hildebrand conference in Rome (0)
May, 2010
- Karol Wojtyla, great gift to the world (0)
- Von Hildebrand conference in Rome (0)
- The enemy within (0)
- Sheena Duncan, RIP (0)
- Protecting children (0)
- Legion of Christ taken to task (2)
- Religion of Peace? (2)
- Theological virtues don’t obviate the claims of natural justice (0)
- Privacy for animals (0)
April, 2010
- Megan McArdle on marriage (0)
- Mark Twain on marriage (0)
- Husbands, love your wives (3)
- Splitting the moral atom (0)
- Midlife care for the soul (0)
- Poland (0)
- Personal responsibility or paternalism? (0)
- Child brides (0)
- Hatred of the Church (0)
- Personal encounter with God the center of true faith (0)
- Power corrupts (0)
- The Dreyfus affair and clerical sex abuse (0)
- Recommended reading (0)
- Scruton on giving (0)
March, 2010
- Penitence (0)
- The priority of the personal in human happiness (0)
- The personification of evil (3)
- John Allen on Benedict’s handling of the issue (14)
- Weigel on the sex scandals in the Church (1)
- What is criticism? (1)
- What is conscience (52)
- The nanny becomes a bully (0)
- Power vs. service (0)
- The de-personalizing Legion of Christ (0)
- Christians in public (0)
- Satanism in the Vatican (3)
- Freedom has to come from within (4)
- Al Qaida calls for more murder (0)
- Intimidation vs. freedom in religion (0)
- Son of Hamas fingers Allah as the source of Islamic terror (0)
- Josef Seifert calls on PAV President to step down (4)
February, 2010
- Bill Buckley on the morality of the last days (0)
- Intimacy without love damages the spirit (23)
- Kleist’s take on modernity (5)
- Lenten reading (0)
- Christian and Islamic visions of love (0)
- Conflating toughness and bullying (1)
- Ayn Rand’s false philosophy (2)
January, 2010
- Gift and grateful striving: Personalist Insight of the Day (PID) (2)
- The curse and the gift of being Irish (2)
- Defeating corruption (0)
- Equality of persons (0)
- A must see documentary on person-destroying ideologies (0)
- From Pope Benedict (0)
- Mugged by the ultrasound (2)
- The Gospel of Life (0)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., personalist (0)
- What makes you suffer? (0)
- Nancy Pelosi’s Archbishop explains the meaning of freedom (0)
- The beginning of love (0)
- The moral vacuum in western world makes Islam appealing to women (3)
December, 2009
- Christmas reading and listening recommendations (1)
- The Incarnation: the glorification of humanity (0)
- A sign of hope (0)
- The marriage debt (2)
- On not wanting reality (0)
- Weigel on just war theory (0)
- Environmentalism’s assault on persons (0)
- Apprehension vs. seeing (0)
- Ecclesiastical dysfunction (0)
- Sexual revolution coming under fire from former liberals (0)
- Communion (0)
- Stigma and motivation (0)
November, 2009
- Von Hildebrand on gratitude (0)
- The role of philosophy (3)
- Thanksgiving as an interpersonal act (0)
- Personalism in education administration (2)
- The origins of religion (0)
- An anger image (0)
- Great movies about life behind the wall (3)
- The fall of the wall (0)
- Continuing the TOB discussion (45)
October, 2009
- Christopher West breaks silence; answers critics (70)
- Scientific evidence for the importance of fathers (0)
- Why Benedict did what he did (0)
- Two views on children (0)
- Moral bankruptcy among the elites (1)
- Recommendation reading and viewing about China under Mao (0)
- The big difference between Mother Teresa and Mao Tse Tung (2)
- Scientistic dogmatism vs. God and human dignity (0)
- Remembering two great personalists (0)
- Another frowned-upon emotion (1)
- Podles on anger and the virtuous life [updated] (4)
- Newman’s conversion (0)
- Two must-read articles on sexuality and porn (3)
- Weigel at Immaculata (16)
September, 2009
- Newman on perfection (2)
- Personalism and NFP (0)
- What’s happening in Europe? (0)
- The incommensurability of justice and mercy (6)
- Who will we stand with? (1)
- A 9/11 anniversary tribute (0)
- Bad news for religious liberty (0)
- The rising cult of experts (1)
- Benjamin Franklin on anger (0)
- The incipient personalism of romanticism? (11)
- What divides us? (7)
August, 2009
- More on Christopher West (0)
- A child psychologist’s insights on anger (20)
- Anniversary of the death of Newman (4)
- Tocqueville’s definition of individualism (0)
- Ronda Chervin on Anger (2)
- Suggested weekend reading (1)
- Anger, passivity, bureaucracy (2)
- Where’s the wrath? (59)
- Persons and power (0)
July, 2009
- Emptiness (1)
- Who really inspires the political left? (0)
- The limits of central planning (0)
- What freedom is not (0)
- Reagan explains what’s wrong with socialized medicine (0)
- The failure of institutions (0)
- De-personalizing, cultish tendencies in the Church (11)
- A personalist pet peeve (6)
- Great anti-Jansenist quote (12)
- Recommended weekend reading and listening (1)
- New light on prudishness (5)
- Women in religion (0)
- Truth as inter-personal breathing space (3)
- Intimacy and emotional dryness (3)
- Rules of civility (0)
- Caritas in Veritate (0)
- Self-possession and the call to love (3)
- The Stoning of Soraya M. (1)
- Looking for philosophical leads (8)
- Bishop Sheen on sex and marriage (2)
- A thought about personalism (0)
- Courtship (19)
- Caritas in Veritate (0)
June, 2009
- Obama’s cultural identity (0)
- This is getting good reviews (0)
- Shop Class as Soulcraft (11)
- New York to offer cash for ova (0)
- Grounds for a burqa ban (0)
- Pro-life question for Obama (0)
- Abortion survivor story (1)
- Another burqa photo (3)
- Iranian women (0)
- Should burquas be banned? (8)
- Fr. Geiger’s latest on the West debate (103)
- Forgiveness retreat (0)
- Closed posts, open discussion (21)
- The problem of innocence (19)
- Not bragging, just marveling at the internet phenom (0)
- Conjugal rights (24)
- Violence in the Koran vs. the Old Testament (0)
- Secret Faults (2)
- Examples of prudishness (0)
- What is prudishness? (1)
- Audio and video coming soon! (1)
- The problem of projection (11)
- Obama utters a truth he defies in practice (0)
