Creating an Intellectual and Spiritual Renaissance in America

Creating an Intellectual and Spiritual Renaissance in America

By George A. Harne, Ph.D.
Download PDF The following remarks are adapted from the Installation Address of George A. Harne, Ph.D., who was installed as the fourth president of Christendom College on August 25, 2024. Today, we honor and renew our commitment to the founding of Christendom College...
Popular Entertainment and the Good Life

Popular Entertainment and the Good Life

By Dr. Daniel McInerny
Download PDF There is perhaps no easier role for a Catholic to play in our contemporary culture than that of the critic of popular entertainment. The overt progressivism of much of today’s entertainment media—as we find it in film and streaming television, music, and...
Why Thomism Matters Today

Why Thomism Matters Today

By Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
Download PDF The aim of this short essay is to present a brief consideration of why Thomism matters today. How can the study of the principles of St. Thomas Aquinas and his intellectual tradition help the Church in the work of a new evangelization of modern culture?...
What Is Sacred Music?

What Is Sacred Music?

By Dr. Kurt Poterack
Download PDF Is sacred music just music with religious lyrics? Is it music that pleases people and, in some way, moves them toward God? Is it totally subjective? Is it totally objective? Most people might say that sacred music is simply music used in the context of a...
Essential Potential: Settling the ‘Woman’ Question

Essential Potential: Settling the ‘Woman’ Question

By Dr. Abigail Favale
Download PDF The classic dystopian novel Brave New World features a totalitarian society that has completely separated human reproduction from sexual activity. Human beings are mass produced and engineered into a caste system; from infancy, their desires are shaped...
Responding to ‘Cancel Culture’ with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

Responding to ‘Cancel Culture’ with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

By Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone
Download PDF You likely remember, as I do, that tense moment in April 2019 when the whole world (Catholics and non-Catholics alike) looked on in shock as flames threatened to destroy Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.  It was an uncanny moment of unity in suffering...