'American Mother,' Diane Foley's and Colum McCann's story of Foley’s life and that of her son, James Foley, is written with a mother’s love, her eventual understanding of hostage situations and her desire for others to understand the struggle she faced.

The whole semantic field of 'tool' and 'instrument' is fraught with negative moral connotations. St. Ignatius’ writings , however, show a different tendency. There, 'instrument' both serves as a central spiritual category and bears a positive connotation.

JD Vance tries to use Aquinas’s 'order of love' to support his political ideology, but is the ethical order he proposes actually consistent with the ethic of Aquinas or, more broadly, with the principles of Catholic social teaching?

Octavia Butler, the Black science fiction writer who died in 2006, did not just create imaginary worlds with parallels to ours. Sometimes she created worlds that are eerily a little too much like our own.

What might Aquinas himself have thought about all the attention to his traveling skull—that fragile and now empty case for the brain behind one of the most productive minds of European philosophy?

In their investigation into the Catholic movement Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, Vatican officials uncovered “sadistic” sect-like abuses of power, authority and spirituality.