The scholarly works of Jacques Maritain, a prominent mid-20th-century Catholic philosopher, are beyond the comprehension of most casual readers. Fortunately, his essays on education are quite ...

Jacques Maritain with Pope Paul VI in an undated photo (Wikimedia Commons). Last year marked 50 years since the death of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain and almost 60 years since the ...

For many years, the influential philosopher Jacques Maritain has been seen as a rare philosemite among the French Catholics of his day (Maritain died at age 90 in 1973). Robert Royal’s 1993 study, ...

When I was a college seminarian, studying philosophy at New York’s Saint John’s University in the 1990s, I had an incredible professor, a priest of my diocese (Brooklyn), Fr. Robert Lauder. Fr. Lauder ...

America has honored many famous writers with the Campion Award since the award’s creation in 1955. Named after St. Edmund Campion, a Jesuit martyr of the Protestant Reformation and the patron saint of ...

I am indebted to my friend James Matthew Wilson of Villanova for this deeply thoughtful take on The Benedict Option. He does me the undeserved honor of comparing the reception of the book to the ...

The publication by the French Dominican publisher Cerf of the epistolary correspondence between four of France’s best known Catholic intellectuals and writers, Georges Bernanos, Paul Claudel, François ...

Traditionally, papal encyclicals cite only writings from the past: scripture, previous encyclicals, the declarations of church scholars and saints. One of the novelties of Pope Paul’s recent Populorum ...