Currents in Catholic Thought

 The Synod on Synodality, called by Pope Francis in 2021 to explore how the Church will move forward in the 3rd millennium, seeks to explore just what "synodality" should look like, and how it s...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2023/02/synod-and-synodality-at-risk.html

Is division in the Church over its liturgy a tempest in a teapot, or a real threat to the mystical body of Christ? On the one hand, the whole church is already divided by heresy, schism and myria...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2023/02/liturgical-reform.html

 In a recent comment on my review of CM Gschwandtner's Welcoming Finitude, Joseph Charles noted a preposterous story appearing in the Associated Press, which reported the possibility that some...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2022/02/sacramental-slapstick-and.html

In her introductory remarks to Welcoming Finitude: Toward a Phenomenology of Orthodox Liturgy (New York: Fordham Univ. Pr., 2019), Christina M. Gschwandtner engages over a century of phenomenolog...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2019/12/celebrating-being-there-review-of.html

 Michael Voris, through his Church Militant organization and his YouTube channel, 'The Vortex', has recently and uncompromisingly condemned the hierarchical church not only for its failure to s...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2018/09/michael-voris-and-fall-of-church.html

While this thing was always scandalous, we cannot continue to call it a scandal, though we will forever be scandalized. We really must call it what it is: systematic, institutional criminality....

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2018/09/whats-in-scandal-lets-no-lose-face-of.html

The way of thinking proposed here does not fail to recognize being or treat it, ridiculously and pretentiously, with disdain, as the fall from a higher order or disorder. On the contrary, it is o...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2017/04/toward-dignity-and-justice-of-being.html

For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son... οὕτως γὰρ ἠγάπησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν κόσμον ὥστε τὸν υἱὸν τὸν μονογενῆ ἔ...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2017/04/no-greater-love-reflection-on-triduum.html

To arrive where you are, to get to where you are not, You must go by a way, wherein there is no ecstasy. ---T.S. Eliot, 'East Coker' Whether on the roads to Marion's Damascus of the satur...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2017/03/spirit-and-body-levinas-on-cusp-of.html

Derrida captures both the imagination and the critical faculties with his theme of 'religion without religion'. Perhaps his greatest expositor, John D. Caputo, has ridden that horse all the ...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2017/01/theodicy-without-theodicy.html

If the Lacanian register of the Imaginary bears wakefulness and the panorama of images that appear before consciousness, and the register of the Symbolic bears the sleep where images and themes ...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/12/altered-states.html

"The proximity of the other is the face's meaning, and it means from the very start in a way that goes beyond those plastic forms which forever try to cover the face like a mask of their pres...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/12/gentle-rain-levinass-conversion-to.html

In the last two posts to this blog I have tried to describe the experience of the suffering and dying body, which, in turn, has important implications for personhood, the human person, human dig...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-call-of-spread-body-from.html

"...habit kills desire"---A Very Easy Death, Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir's account of the last month of her mother's life, A Very Easy Death (trans. P. O'Brian, NY: Pantheon, 1965) pr...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/11/simone-de-beauvoirs-body-and-this-is-my.html

National Hospice Month enjoys celebrations across the U.S. in the month of November, and such celebrations have taken many forms. One such celebration took place in my own living room, and wa...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/11/emmanuel-falques-spread-body-place.html

A commentary on a philosopher whose work sometimes appears inimical to the philosophical commitmments of my project might at first blush seem incongruent if not reckless; yet Harman's work has al...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-commentary-on-graham-harmans.html

Καὶ παράγων εἶδεν ἄνθρωπον τυφλὸν ἐκ γενετῆς. καὶ ἠρώτησαν αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ λέγοντες Ῥαββε�...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/04/towards-phenomenology-of-gained-sight.html

About eight days after he said this, he took Peter, John, and James and went up the mountain to pray. While he was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white. ...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/04/praying-transfiguration-luke-928-36.html

Reading enacts an experience of texts. One does not read oneself reading, for reading through 'distance' constitutes the very experience of reading, the very experience of placing oneself in rel...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/04/reading-transfiguration-luke-9.html

On April 20th 2016, we acknowledge the legacy of the great musician, conductor and composer, Giuseppe Sinopoli, who, at age 54, died, fittingly I suppose, on the podium while conducting Verdi's�...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/04/giuseppe-sinopoli-1946-2001-note-on.html

After an infant is born, passed through its mother's body, into my medicalized hands, gowned and gloved, after the cord is clamped and cut, cord bloods delivered in tubes, after the infant i...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-cross-and-womb-of-god.html

What dreams may come after death frightened Hamlet to paralysis. Contemplating suicide, he explores realities far worse than death: a perpetual nightmare of greater terror than any in waking life...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/03/perchance-to-dream-what-dreams-may-come.html

As usual, I am late to the party, but grateful nonetheless for Amazon's analytics of my purchases and browsing there. I recently came across Habermas's and Ratzinger's The Dialectic of Seculariz...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/03/some-books-in-dialogue-but-first.html

By now it should be clear that no account of the most famous miracles, the miracles of Jesus, can ensue without first giving an account of the ground of the miraculous, those acts of creation gi...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/03/miracles-ii.html

WHAT CAN A MIRACLE DO BUT BRING YOU BACK TO ME? Miracles return us to memory, our own, our faith's, our religion's; miracles orient us toward the past made present, and protend to the advent ...

http://currentcatholics.blogspot.com/2016/02/miracles.html