Michael Pakaluk, an Aristotle scholar and Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, is a professor in the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. He lives in Hyattsville, MD with his wife Catherine, also a professor at the Busch School, and their eight children. His acclaimed book on the Gospel of Mark is The Memoirs of St Peter. His most recent book, Mary's Voice in the Gospel of John: A New Translation with Commentary, is now available. His new book, Be Good Bankers: The Divine Economy in the Gospel of Matthew, is forthcoming from Regnery Gateway in the spring. Prof. Pakaluk was appointed to the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas by Pope Benedict XVI.

What Video Masses Can Teach Us about the Mass

Tuesday, May 26, 2020


The Beauty and Simplicity of the Family Rosary

Tuesday, May 12, 2020


After the Force Majeure

Tuesday, April 28, 2020


The World and Its Lockdowns

Tuesday, April 14, 2020


Ubi Petrus

Michael Pakaluk

Tuesday, March 31, 2020


An Abundance of Caution

Tuesday, March 17, 2020


Yes, I’d Become Catholic Again

Tuesday, March 3, 2020


Faith in Humanity

Tuesday, February 18, 2020


What Jesus Did Not Say About Hell

Tuesday, February 4, 2020


Why Do Christians Believe in Hell?

Tuesday, January 21, 2020


Creation and Miracles

Thursday, January 9, 2020


Singular Vessel of Devotion

Monday, December 23, 2019


“How Great Thou Art!”: An Athanasian Masterpiece

Tuesday, December 10, 2019


High Notes – and Low

Wednesday, November 27, 2019


The Amazon Synod’s Self-Subverting Vision

Wednesday, November 6, 2019


Newman’s Three Ideas of a University

Tuesday, October 29, 2019


The Return of the Strong Gods

Tuesday, October 15, 2019


The Blind Leading the Sighted

Tuesday, October 1, 2019


The Preferential Option for the Young

Tuesday, September 17, 2019


Newman’s Children: John Senior

Tuesday, September 3, 2019


Prayer and Asceticism

Tuesday, August 20, 2019


Of Politeness and Brutalism

Thursday, August 8, 2019


For Everything There is a Season

Thursday, July 25, 2019


Signs of Mutual Love

Tuesday, July 9, 2019


Three Liberalisms: The Good, the Bad, the Disastrous

Thursday, June 27, 2019


My Eyes Have Seen Your Salvation

Tuesday, June 11, 2019


“I Didn’t Mean To”

Tuesday, May 28, 2019


Be Good Bankers

Tuesday, May 14, 2019


Music for Easter?

Tuesday, April 30, 2019


Thrift as a Christian Virtue

Tuesday, April 2, 2019


St. Joseph, Patron of the Church and the New Evangelization

Tuesday, March 19, 2019


Apollo 11

Tuesday, March 5, 2019


The Free Solo Way of Life

Tuesday, February 19, 2019


Does Length of Life Matter?

Tuesday, January 22, 2019


Four Ways to Extend Christmas

Tuesday, January 8, 2019


Dies Natalis

Wednesday, December 26, 2018


Queen of the New Evangelization

Wednesday, December 12, 2018


Now and at the Hour

Tuesday, November 27, 2018


Where Have All the Devils Gone?

Tuesday, November 13, 2018


Conversion as Paradigm Shift

Tuesday, October 30, 2018


A Synod also on Vocational Discernment

Tuesday, October 16, 2018


On Needing God – and the Teaching on Hell

Tuesday, October 2, 2018


Moms at Mass, and Other Heroes

Tuesday, September 18, 2018


Masterpiece: St. Thomas More’s Epitaph

Tuesday, September 4, 2018


Sex as Play

Tuesday, August 21, 2018


If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments

Tuesday, August 7, 2018


Humanae Vitae’s Singular Vision

Tuesday, July 24, 2018


I Will Make You Fishers of Wild Boars

Tuesday, July 10, 2018


Circumcision for Christians

Tuesday, June 26, 2018


On Suicide

Tuesday, June 12, 2018