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Integrating Sex: Why We Hunger for Affirmation of Our Bodies →

June 18, 2025
Integrating Sex: Why We Hunger for Affirmation of Our Bodies

Is there any meaning and purpose to being male and female, or to sexuality as a whole?

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Tags: philosophy, philosophical anthropology, integration, body, theology of the body, theological anthropology, Bernard Lonergan, transgenderism, gender, gender ideology, gender theory

John Paul II's Exploration of the Full Personhood of Women →

June 18, 2025
John Paul II's Exploration of the Full Personhood of Women

Are women rational and free people? What did John Paul II say?

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Tags: women, John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act, personalism, theology, theological anthropology, philosophy, philosophical anthropology

God Was Above Vampire Weekend →

April 18, 2024
God Was Above Vampire Weekend

And now for something different.

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Tags: Vampire Weekend, music, desire

Interview: "The Ideology Behind Andrea Long Chu’s Controversial Pulitzer" →

May 27, 2023
Tags: Andrea Long Chu, gender, gender ideology, gender theory, transgenderism, women, woman, feminism

Judith Butler's Trouble →

April 22, 2023
Tags: gender, gender ideology, gender theory, Judith Butler, substance, subject, death of the subject, post-modernism, metaphysics

New Aesthetic Vistas on the Metaphysics of Labor →

March 29, 2023

A reprint of the book chapter from Holiness through Work: Commemorating the Encyclical Laborem Exercens, edited by Martin Schlag. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine Press, 2022.

Tags: John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, Karl Marx, Marxism, labor, theological aesthetics, aesthetics, metaphysics

In the Swarm: The Liturgy and Liquid Identity →

January 12, 2023

A keynote for the Society for Catholic Liturgy.

Tags: liturgy, liquid modernity, Zygmunt Bauman, Joseph Ratzinger, identity, identity politics, gender

Why Does Higher Ed Throw Women Under the Bus? →

September 26, 2022

Biopower's Scapegoating of the Female Body →

September 26, 2022
Tags: Michel Foucault, biopower, bioethics, feminism, contraception, population control, birth control, abortion

Review: The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar: An Introduction to His Trilogy by Matthew Levering →

June 13, 2022
Review: The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar: An Introduction to His Trilogy by Matthew Levering

A review in Nova et Vetera 2021, a book from CUA Press.

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Tags: Hans Urs von Balthasar, Nietzsche, Kant, Hegel, theological aesthetics

John Paul II's Theology of the Body and the Gift of Children →

February 23, 2022
Tags: theology, theology of the body, John Paul II, contraception, birth control, eugenics, Catholic social doctrine

What Secularization Did to the Self →

January 28, 2022
Tags: secularism, secularization, self, subject, death of the subject, identiy, Charles Taylor, Gilles Deleuze

Mary’s Poverty, an Example of a Misogynistic Ecclesial Agenda?

January 28, 2022
Source: https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/marys-poverty-an-example-of-a-misogynistic-ecclesial-agenda/ Tags: Virgin Mary, Mariology, theology of the body, theology, Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Paul II, poverty

Modernity's Feasting on Fluid Bodies and Empty Selves →

September 16, 2021
Tags: vampires, zombies, T. S. Eliot, liquid modernity, modernity

An Excuse for Bigotry? Religious Freedom and Sexual Morality →

September 03, 2021
Tags: religious freedom, sexual ethics, sexuality, theology of the body

The Body as a Formed Stream →

August 28, 2021
Tags: body, theology of the body, blood, heart, Judith Butler, gender theory, gender ideology, form and matter

Consumerism and the Liquefaction of Desire →

August 28, 2021
Tags: desire, Deleuze, Michel Foucault, French theory, Zygmunt Bauman, liquid modernity, Karol Wojtyla

The Fallout from the 20th Century Quarrel Over the Subject →

August 28, 2021
Tags: subject, death of the subject, Vincent Descombes, Alain de Libera, French theory

Foucault's Principalities and Powers →

February 11, 2021
Tags: Michel Foucault, biopower, eugenics, powr, Nietzsche, potency, bioethics

The Body as Totem in the Asexual Revolution →

February 11, 2021
Tags: sexuality, sexual revolution, Freud, totemism, theology of the body, body, Karl Marx, commodity fetishism
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Books & Articles

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Nov 14, 2016
Contraception and Catholicism
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 14, 2016
Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 12, 2016
Women, Sex, and the Church
Nov 12, 2016
Nov 12, 2016