AI? Ho hum.Michael Pakaluk
When Friedrich Wohler in 1828 synthesized urea, the first organic compound to be manufactured in a laboratory, the popular newspapers of the day received the news as an earth-shattering development, which, ...
The shepherd dies with his sheepEffie Caldarola
In the midst of the bloody Syrian civil war, a Dutch Jesuit named Father Frans van der Lugt was killed in the ravaged city of Homs. It was April 7, 2014. He was beaten and then shot in the head. The ...
The passions of the ChristMichael Pakaluk
One of the most striking differences between the early Christians and us is that they lacked any conception of "the emotions." Rather, what they talked about were "the passions." What's the difference? ...
In the gardenEffie Caldarola
It was a little past 5 in the morning when I was jarred awake by a wet tongue licking my nose. We were dog-sitting our daughter's pit bull, and this was my morning wake-up call. Being quiet for my ...
The intimacy of the ResurrectionMichael Pakaluk
Here is a puzzle: The suffering and death of the Lord were public. He was sentenced by Roman authorities before a crowd and put to death on a public byway with the placard, "Jesus of Nazareth, King of ...
What is civilization?Michael Pakaluk
It has no entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia; it is not mentioned in the Catechism; yet the popes talk about it in their encyclicals. What is "civilization?" Is Christianity responsible for it? Is Western ...
A Birmingham jailEffie Caldarola
In April 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in jail in Birmingham, Alabama. Famously committed to non-violence, Rev. King was arrested after leading a peaceful march of Black protesters who ...
Faith and reason testify to each otherMichael Pakaluk
When St. Pope John Paul II wrote in his great encyclical, "Fides et ratio," that "Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth," he surely meant that ...
America needs you, Thomas AquinasBishop Robert Barron
This article was first published on August 22, 2009, on Evangelization & Culture Online. Just last week I was in Toulouse France, filming for my 10-part documentary on Catholicism. I will admit ...
The coming of Christ destroys 'enchantment'Michael Pakaluk
In the days following Epiphany, the church celebrates the dawning of the light of Christ upon the pagans, as foretold in the reading from Isaiah (60:2-3) in last Sunday's Mass: See, darkness covers ...
