The late Fred Rogers is currently enjoying something of a post-mortal renaissance.
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To save public debate, we must rescue academic philosophy from its self-induced irrelevance.
Moral crises are preceded by metaphysical and epistemological confusion. In other words, the cause of the present lies in our past.
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Why do we remove some statues and not others?
Why is the statue of General Lee gone and the statue of General Sherman still there?
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No one had ever done a comprehensive survey of Catholic women. So we did.
This issue of America presents the findings of the most comprehensive survey of U.S. Catholic women ever conducted.
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To end abortion, we need to narrow the gap between civil and moral law
The whole array of potential threats to life and human dignity is interrelated.
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10 things Catholics can do to make Twitter a less toxic place
For Christians, the ministry of social communications does not exist for the sake of mere speech but for the one who is himself the Word.
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The United States needs to recognize women’s genius and hard work
The contributions of women—too often overlooked—speak to what Pope Francis has called the particular “genius of women.”
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The danger in losing our shared sense of history
What we see and how we see it largely depends on where we are standing. A shared sense of history, of what was, or might’ve been, or could be again, is the indispensable touchstone of our collective judgement, for memory is the soul of conscience.
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Thinking about joining the Jesuits? Stop sitting on the fence and try it out.
I know this is generally not O.K. to do, writing a whole article about joining the Jesuits.
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How to encounter Latino Catholics in America (and why you need to)
The nation has changed, once again. This time we are becoming more Latino. The demographic shift is not the future; it is the present.