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If you didn’t know about the Adeodatus Conference on Catholic Education and Culture, you should! Organized by friend and co-worker...

This semester, I am teaching the History, Philosophy, and Mission of the Catholic School to diocesan principals as well as...

… there are certain identifiable human values, not peculiarly Christian, which nevertheless flourish only in a Christian setting, and tend...

“Our world is in urgent need of the transformative light of the truth, which illuminates the mind and satisfies the...

In 2005 journalist Nathan Gardels interviewed René Girard. The resulting article was published in the Huffington Post under the title...

“No one takes the trouble to reflect uncompromisingly about the enigma of a historical situation that is without precedent: the...

“Even as a Christian, one remains a Frenchman or a German, an American or an Indian.…But the full development of...

Here is a metaphor for the Christianization of culture, history, and the human imagination, against which so many forces are...

Culture is the soul of a civilization and religion is the soul of a culture. Once a civilization loses its...

“The deritualization of social life invites struggles for power. Far from being an enlightening process, the destruction of ritual in...

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