As against Grace Davie’s vision of European secularization as a form of “believing without belonging,” here we see the genesis…
Catholicism
U. of I. to renew controversial adjunct professor’s contract
The AP reports that Dr. Kenneth Howell, the recently scandalized adjunct instructor of religion at the University of Illinois, has…
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
Geroulanos’s central thesis is compelling but simple: French antihumanism, in its theoretical mode, was based on a radicalized “negative anthropology,”…
Controversy over crimes against the Church
A day after the Vatican issued a new document revising the types of crimes one can commit against the Catholic…
Teaching Catholicism and sexual morality
The dismissal of Kenneth Howell, a University of Illinois adjunct professor of Catholic history and thought, has generated much discussion…
Impure thoughts
What fascinates me about [the] language of purity and contamination is the extent to which it is mobilized in the service…
Child abuse, church and state in Belgium
Last week, a conflict between the Vatican and Belgian authorities over the handling of abuse cases within the Roman Catholic…
Democrats and evangelicals try to forge coalition for immigration reform
The Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) was introduced in 2009 to close a loophole in immigration law that discriminated against…
Carrying the blank banner
For the first time in over a decade, reports CNN, members of St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church marched in…
Gauging irreligion in the heart of Europe
Conventional wisdom states that the Czech Republic is the least religious society in the West. At The Guardian, Dana Hamplová discusses…