Ralph McInerny (1929-2010) was a writer of philosophy, fiction, and cultural criticism, who taught at Notre Dame from 1955 until his death in 2010. He was among the founding contributors to The Catholic Thing.

Sealed With an X

Tuesday, November 17, 2009


Flourish. Exeunt Omnes.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009


Inconclusive Postscript

Tuesday, October 20, 2009


On the Road to Limerick

Tuesday, October 6, 2009


Band of Fathers

Thursday, September 24, 2009


Pascal’s Memorial

Tuesday, September 8, 2009


Philosophia Perennis

Tuesday, August 25, 2009


“THERE’S KEBLE!”

Tuesday, August 11, 2009


Otto Bird

Monday, July 27, 2009


We Lepers

Wednesday, July 15, 2009


The Dean’s Daughter

Tuesday, June 30, 2009


Don’t You Know?

Tuesday, June 16, 2009


The Marrying Animal

Tuesday, June 2, 2009


A House Divided

Monday, May 18, 2009


Unity versus Diversity

Monday, May 11, 2009


Lingua Franca

Monday, April 27, 2009


Present at the Apocalypse

Wednesday, April 15, 2009


Is Obama Worth a Mass?

Monday, March 23, 2009


St Patrick was an Irishman

Tuesday, March 17, 2009


The Hazards of Hedonism

Monday, March 2, 2009


The Happy Fault

Sunday, February 15, 2009


One That Got Away

Sunday, February 1, 2009


Pietas

Sunday, January 18, 2009


No Country for Old Men

Sunday, January 4, 2009


A Dickens of a Christmas

Thursday, December 25, 2008


Mammon and Uniquity

Sunday, December 7, 2008


You have mail

Monday, November 24, 2008


Implicit Philosophy

Monday, November 10, 2008


Vice and Verse

Sunday, October 26, 2008


Noblesse oblique

Monday, October 13, 2008


The Chesterbelloc Thing

Tuesday, September 30, 2008


Theology for Dummies

Monday, September 15, 2008


Animal husbandry

Wednesday, September 3, 2008


Alma mater

Thursday, August 14, 2008


Godless Democracy

Sunday, August 3, 2008


Promethean Green

Monday, July 21, 2008


Ourselves to Know

Wednesday, July 9, 2008


The Mystery of Faith

Monday, July 7, 2008


Out of the depths

Ralph McInerny

Monday, June 23, 2008


Ourselves to Know

Monday, June 9, 2008