Church and community in a post-Christian world (Part One)

We live in an increasingly atomised world. In his book Bowling Alone…

About the Author: James Bradshaw

James Bradshaw writes on topics including history, culture, film and literature.  This is the first of a two-part article, based on a lecture delivered at the conference on the “Human Person” which took place in St. Mary’s Church in Cork city on January 27th. The day-long conference was organised by the Dominican Order in honour of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Flight from Beauty, Flight from Judgment – Part One

Modern culture is in flight from beauty, and has been for quite…

About the Author: Richard Clements

Richard Clements is the author of The Meaning of the World Is Love: Selected Texts from Hans Urs von Balthasar with Commentary (Ignatius Press, 2022) and The Book of Love: Brief Meditations (En Route Books, 2023). He has a PhD in clinical psychology from Purdue University and a certificate in lay ecclesial ministry, and he has taught psychology at several universities.

This article first appeared at: www.wordonfire.org and has been reprinted with the kind permission of the editors.

Proportionalism: An Old But Stubborn Foe

Speaking last week at a conference in Italy, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president…

About the Author: Bishop Robert Barron

This article first appeared at: www.wordonfire.org. Bishop Robert Barron is an author, speaker, theologian, and founder of Word on Fire, a global media ministry. This article has been reprinted with the kind permission of the editors.

The Adventures of Classical Morality

One of the most significant fault lines in Western culture opened up…

About the Author: Bishop Robert Barron

This article first appeared at: www.wordonfire.org and is taken from Bishop Barron’s collection of essays, “Seeds of the Word”. Bishop Robert Barron is an author, speaker, theologian, and founder of Word on Fire, a global media ministry. This article has been reprinted with the kind permission of the editors.

Don’t Give Up on the Liberal Arts!

It has just come to my attention that Marymount University, a Catholic institution…

About the Author: Bishop Robert Barron

This article first appeared at: www.wordonfire.org. Bishop Robert Barron is an author, speaker, theologian, and founder of Word on Fire, a global media ministry. This article has been reprinted with the kind permission of the editors.

Inclusion and Exclusion

I would like to follow up on an earlier article I wrote on…

About the Author: Bishop Robert Barron

This article first appeared at: www.wordonfire.org. Bishop Robert Barron is an author, speaker, theologian, and founder of Word on Fire, a global media ministry. This article has been reprinted with the kind permission of the editors.