The Purposeful Polis

Good government, right reason, and the light of faith.

Michael Bradley

Dethrone Love from Its Judgment Seat

Confronted with the reign of the untethered subjective ego and its desires, we must exorcise the demon that “love is god” and reorient love clearly in service to the shared goods that animate our desires for relationship.

Michael Bradley

The Stumbling Block of Blessed Paul

Michael Bradley reviews the recent release from Ignatius Press, On Human Life.

Timothy Kirchoff

Universities Must Fashion, Not Just ‘Find,’ Catholic Faculty

Given the incentive structure of modern academia, we should be surprised to find a professor with the competence, much less the confidence, to fully integrate a Catholic mission into his or her research and teaching.

Michael Bradley

What is Blessing?

While our actions always shape our character, and while an awareness of our blessings ought to shape our character, our actions are never our blessings, nor our blessings our actions.

Timothy Kirchoff

Beyond Abolition: The New Pro-Life Activism

The aims of this new generation of pro-life leaders are political in the broad sense rather than the partisan one: They want to change society as a whole, not just the civil laws by which it is governed.

Michael Bradley

A Healthy Awareness?

Amid cultural concern for how commonly women are mistreated and objectified by men, we should think twice about making a patron of the same lechery that we rightfully denounce in other, less cheerful contexts.

Michael Bradley

Participation and Procreation

The Lord alone is “Giver of Life,” and spouses are called to genuine agency through their participation with him in the transmission of human life.

Michael Bradley

Becoming God’s Type

Michael Bradley reviews Holly Ordway’s recent title with Ignatius Press, Not God’s Type.