Connor Curley

January 1st is arbitrary; so Why Celebrate?

January, 2026, 24 hour day, all these metrics are in one sense or another arbitrary constructions of ancient history. Does that matter? Ought that to affect our observation?

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Forsaking your Family

We must die to ourselves, our backgrounds, and our histories to make way for our new identities.

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Michael Knowles’ recent Bar Fight

Public Debate is becoming commonplace and popular again. Good.

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Doctrine Has not Changed; you just have to work harder for it.

It might be convenient to simply rely on infallible declarations for your own faith, but that sidesteps the entire point of Catholicism. The last pontificates have forced people to engage themselves in their Faith, and people are mad.

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Marriage’s Paradoxical Utility

That marriage has one specifically utilitarian end ought not to be a stumbling block for those who recognize Love as the key point within a marriage.

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Love Wins! The “utilitarian” Nature of Marriage and the orientation of Love

Marriage runs the danger of being a mere utilitarian Sacrament: procreation of Children, and remedium concupiscae. Love ensures the Sacrament is elevated to the level of human activity.

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Using Persons: the Personalistic Norm and the Modern Landscape

Wojtyla shocked the modern academic world by admitting some legitimate use for persons. His Personalistic Norm is the key to overcoming modernity’s absurdist isolation.

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“Confusing” JPII: on mistaking Description for Prescription

Many find frustration with JPII as being modernist, confusing, vague, and not willing to engage the world with decrees on hard topics. Are these fair descriptions of his work?

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Two Pontificates, One Direction: Francis’ reign erroneously eulogized as a marked turning point

Pope Francis’ papacy is not the turning point for the Church several authors are claiming it was.

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In Defense of Gender Studies

Conservatives downplay and outright mock gender studies as a legitimate course of studies. I do not think this is necessarily appropriate. In fact, I think that there may possibly be no greater course of studies for the modern age.

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Integrating the Laity: The Introduction, Excesses, and Recentering of the Laity’s role in the Church

JPII introduced a new vision for the Church, one which saw the Laity as full members of the Church body. In the wake of his enthusiasm, excesses were almost inevitable. We must recenter on the laity as the laity, not shallow imitations of the clergy.

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The Anthropology of Mission

Mankind has a specific way it grows, becomes introduced to new things, and creates worldviews. If missionary work is to be relevant, it must take this basic anthropology into account.

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Man’s Modern Isolation

Simply focusing on work, and gaining material means, isolates Man beyond recognition.

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Going into Someone’s Home

If we are to bring Christ to all peoples, we must first recognize where they come from, so that we might speak on the same level as they.

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The Timeless Tradition of the New Evangelization

Just because there is the word “New” in something does not mean that it is a break with the past.

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