Joseph Wood is an itinerant philosopher and easily accessible hermit affiliated with Cana Academy, Walsh University, The Catholic University of America, and the University of Notre Dame Australia, none of which bears any responsibility for his errors or missteps.

The Litany of “I Still Can Believe. . .”

Wednesday, November 1, 2023


All About Australia

Thursday, January 6, 2022


What Are We Waiting For?

Friday, December 17, 2021


Walking, Thinking, and Praying

Friday, December 3, 2021


Dignity and Distance

Friday, November 19, 2021


On Wanting More: A Philosophical-Theological Potpourri

Friday, November 5, 2021


Satan Loves “Safety”

Friday, October 22, 2021


Rebirths and New Beginnings

Friday, May 21, 2021


The Trial of Jesus

Friday, May 7, 2021


Towards a New, and Quite Different, Tocqueville

Friday, April 23, 2021


To Vax or Not to Vax

Friday, April 9, 2021


Paintings and Pictures, Absence and Presence

Friday, March 26, 2021


More on “Form”

Friday, March 12, 2021


On the Road Again

Friday, February 26, 2021


A Face

Sunday, January 10, 2021


The Other Holy Family

Sunday, November 29, 2020


Creation, According to Ratzinger (and a couple of other guys)

Sunday, November 15, 2020


Augustine Renewed

Thursday, January 25, 2018


Disorder on the March

Saturday, August 31, 2013


Beauty, the Assumption, and the Saints of August

Saturday, August 17, 2013


American Places, Catholic Spaces

Saturday, August 3, 2013


Two Towns, Two Speeches, Two Curtains

Saturday, July 20, 2013


First Impressions of Lumen Fidei

Saturday, July 6, 2013


Modesty and Friendship: Lost in the Data?

Saturday, June 22, 2013


One or Many?

Saturday, June 8, 2013


The Inversion of Conversion

Saturday, May 11, 2013


The Measure, and Measurement, of All Things

Saturday, April 27, 2013


Unfit to Serve?

Saturday, April 13, 2013


Brideshead and Baseball (Revisited)

Thursday, April 4, 2013


Catholic Social Teaching – Without Fear

Saturday, March 16, 2013


The Adventure of Disruption

Saturday, March 2, 2013


Identifying Our New Mission

Saturday, February 16, 2013


Subsidiarity, Foreign and Domestic

Saturday, February 2, 2013


French Secularism, At Home and Abroad

Wednesday, January 16, 2013


Natural Law and the Present Turmoil

Saturday, September 29, 2012


Lessons from Central Europe

Saturday, September 15, 2012


The Cardinal Prays

Saturday, September 1, 2012


A Modest Proposal for the Cardinal’s Conundrum

Saturday, August 18, 2012


Reflections in August

Saturday, August 4, 2012


Broadening the Conversation

Saturday, July 21, 2012


All Things Visible and Invisible: Celebrating the “God Particle”

Saturday, July 7, 2012


Thoughts from Inside the Beltway

Saturday, June 23, 2012


Political Withdrawal, Reconsidered

Saturday, June 9, 2012


“Witness” at Sixty

Saturday, May 26, 2012


Traveling like a Catholic

Saturday, May 12, 2012


Who Dares, Wins

Saturday, April 28, 2012


Brideshead and Baseball

Saturday, March 31, 2012


You Can Look It Up

Thursday, February 16, 2012


An Ancient Letter

Saturday, January 7, 2012


A Book for Our Age

Wednesday, December 21, 2011