In January 2013, hundreds of thousands of French Catholics marched down the streets of Paris to protest the “Marriage For…
Catholicism
The long shadow of Christian politics
It has become a truism to say that Samuel Moyn’s work landed like “a grenade” amid common understandings of postwar…
Border-crossers, the human person, and Catholic communitarianism
It is a delight to be asked to contribute to this forum on Samuel Moyn’s work on Christianity and human…
An unwanted legacy: Christianity and the future of human rights
The conceptual history of human rights has received a great deal of scholarly attention over the last decade. Many of…
All churches have heretics: On Catholicism, human rights, and the advantages of history for life
In the years since Samuel Moyn’s essay on Jacques Maritain, personalism, and human rights appeared, he has overseen a transformation…
Christian human rights—An introduction
Christmas Day, 1942. The outcome of World War II was undecided, but the pope had something new to say. A…
Malediction, exorcism, and evil
It is best to begin by considering the word malediction in the simple sense of speaking evil or evil-saying. The…
Pope Francis reaffirms belief in evolution
Addressing the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on October 27, Pope Francis stated that not only are…
Losing sight of reason
Thomas Pfau has created a brand new narrative, not a scholarly book. In the best Christian traditio renovanda (renewing tradition),…
Overlapping senses of salvation
With a Guatemala’s history of social and political instability, the place of religion in public life is often fraught with…