Timothy Kirchoff

Timothy Kirchoff

A native of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Timothy Kirchoff graduated in 2014 from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently interning at the Lumen Christi Institute and is a contributing editor with Ethika Politika.

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Articles


Millennials and Same-Sex Marriage

September 28, 2014

If we have been liberated of certain prejudices of our parents’ and grandparents’ generations, we have also lost whatever sense they may have had that marriage is a unique and integral part of the foundation and fabric of society.


The American Crisis of Conscience

August 26, 2014

A few weeks after Democratic leaders argued that corporations should value profit above all, they renewed their push for companies to show ‘economic patriotism.’


The Death of Dating

August 6, 2014

Millennials recognize that hooking up gets them nowhere. So why haven’t they gone back to dating? In short, we cannot hope to build a healthy dating culture until we realize just how counter-cultural it would have to be.


Political Reconciliation and the Defense of Marriage

July 10, 2014

Six points that show how restorative justice might offer a path forward in the marriage debate.


Unsafe Assumptions

June 27, 2014

If nothing else, the safe-space advocates have something to teach us with respect to affirming the dignity of the marginalized—precisely the people whom Pope Francis has said over and over again should be our focus in evangelization.


Discovering What We Share

June 16, 2014

In response to Joseph Bottum’s latest Commonweal essay, Timothy Kirchoff argues that a closer examination of the arguments of same-sex marriage advocates reveals potentially fertile ground for “re-enchantment.”

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Is Francis Building Benedict’s Church?

January 13, 2014

Pope Francis’s critiques of “spiritual worldliness” in Evangelii Gaudium seem to clear the way for the Church Ratzinger envisioned decades ago.

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Duck Dynasty and Duckspeak

January 2, 2014

The realization of Orwell’s predictions about the deterioration of moral and political discourse hardly require Big Brother’s assistance, as the Duck Dynasty controversy makes clear.