Magazine
ESSAYS
A Re-examination of “Stereotypes.”
Bringing the dead back to life.
Gone are the days of the misspelling mail-order bride and au revoir, sweet Nigerian prince.
You can call it a response to Matthew Harvey Sanders.
Magisterium AI—the Catholic chatbot that Sanders characterizes as a paver on “the Golden Path”—is bad.
Marc Barnes mistakes a call for prudence with a call for prohibition.
The chatbot, by virtue of being designed to appear human, appears sexual—male or female.
Podcasts
What do the matriarchs of the Old Testament teach us regarding the roles of men and women? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell discuss the biblical story of Esther and how it reveals the specific vocation of women.
The Iran War is close to entering its third week, and hostilities continue to escalate. Off-ramps for de-escalation are closing and the American public is, largely, unsupportive of the war. In this podcast, Alex Denley hosts a roundtable discussion with three professors of the College of St. Joseph the Worker, Dr. Andrew Willard Jones, Dr. Alex Plato, and Dr. Jared Goff, on whether the Iran War fits the criteria of a just war according to Catholic Social Teaching. They also discuss the circumstances of the war, the stated objectives of the Trump administration, and whether modern warfare is capable of being waged justly.
EVENTS

A Re-examination of “Stereotypes.”