James V. Schall, S.J. (1928-2019), who served as a professor at Georgetown University for thirty-five years, was one of the most prolific Catholic writers in America. Among his many books are The Mind That Is Catholic, The Modern Age, Political Philosophy and Revelation: A Catholic Reading, Reasonable Pleasures, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught, Catholicism and Intelligence, and, most recently, On Islam: A Chronological Record, 2002-2018.

“Them Pearly Gates” – Revisited

Tuesday, June 18, 2019


We Shall Be Different – and Ourselves

Sunday, April 21, 2019


“Who Are You?”

Tuesday, April 9, 2019


“Cantare, Amantis Est”

Tuesday, March 26, 2019


On the Divine “Plan”

Tuesday, March 12, 2019


On Hell

Monday, February 25, 2019


“Why Do I Exist?” Revisited

Tuesday, February 12, 2019


On Plato

Tuesday, January 29, 2019


Schall at 91—an Interim Report

Saturday, January 12, 2019


On Curiosity

Saturday, December 15, 2018


On Uniqueness

Tuesday, December 4, 2018


On Sloth

Tuesday, November 20, 2018


On Retribution

Tuesday, November 6, 2018


On “Why?”

Tuesday, October 23, 2018


On the “Enduring of Evil”

Tuesday, October 9, 2018


On Words

Tuesday, September 25, 2018


On Persuading “Man to Be Acquainted with Himself”

Tuesday, September 11, 2018


On the 51st Psalm

Tuesday, August 28, 2018


On News Reports

Tuesday, August 14, 2018


On “A Nameless Dread”

Tuesday, July 31, 2018


On Wasted Time

Tuesday, July 17, 2018


On the Fascination of Evil

Tuesday, July 3, 2018


On Ideology

Tuesday, June 19, 2018


On Forgetfulness

Tuesday, June 5, 2018


On Who Celebrates the Liturgy

Tuesday, May 22, 2018


On an Illiberal Education

Tuesday, May 8, 2018


On Facts and Truths

Tuesday, April 24, 2018


“Humanity as It Actually Is”

Tuesday, April 10, 2018


On the Absurd Stumbling Block

Tuesday, March 27, 2018


On “Them Pearly Gates”

Tuesday, March 13, 2018


On Being Catholic

Tuesday, February 27, 2018


A Short Catechesis

Tuesday, February 13, 2018


On the Size of the Universe

Tuesday, January 30, 2018


On the Human Mind

Tuesday, January 2, 2018


On Feelings

Tuesday, December 19, 2017


On Limits

Tuesday, December 5, 2017


On Sad Songs

Sunday, November 19, 2017


On Glory

Tuesday, November 7, 2017


On Consistency

Tuesday, October 24, 2017


On Hatred

Monday, October 9, 2017


On Refutation

Tuesday, September 26, 2017


On the “ISM” sins

Tuesday, September 12, 2017


On Eliminating High School Football

Tuesday, August 29, 2017


On the Dullness of the World

Tuesday, August 15, 2017


On Technically Enhanced Man

Tuesday, August 1, 2017


“Evolution Has No Martyrs”

Tuesday, July 18, 2017


On Change

Monday, July 3, 2017


On the “Hortensius”

Tuesday, June 20, 2017


“If I Had Not Come and Spoken to Them. . . .”

Tuesday, June 6, 2017


On Praying to an Abstract God

Tuesday, May 23, 2017