Adrian J. Walker

“Contraception is an anti-erotic betrayal of desire. It attacks that desire at its very root, which is the expansive, outward-looking generosity inscribed in sexual eros by the energy of self-communicating life.”

Christ is not less free than we are, but infinitely more so, and this surprising more-human-than-human freedom certifies his unique way of personalizing humanity.

"[T]he primary 'mission' of difference is entirely beneficient: to enable creatures to be with one another, and so to help one another to recognize being itself as the purely good gift that it is."

"In becoming a canon of ecclesial confession, Maximus necessarily also becomes a canon of conscience as well, a living proof that freedom is truth and truth, freedom."

“Even as a reality belonging to the order of nature, sexual union is a kind of liturgical act uniting . . . self-possession and self-sacrifice, in a gesture analogous to the Eucharist.”

“Catholic communion is the true life according to reason, in the sense that it makes present, in the most comprehensive way in which an earthly life can, the (enfleshed) Reason ‘through’ whom ‘all things were created.’”

“The Risen Lord has victoriously filled death with the only substance and intelligibility it can have: himself.”

"Love is 'the meaning of being.'"

"God, in the very act of communicating himself, produces matter as the receiver of his gift and, at the same time, lets matter originally co-produce the gift it receives."

The editors of Communio are pleased to announce the inauguration of a new series entitled Why We Need . . . The three dots stand for the names of philosophers, poets, scientists, painters, musicians, theologians, and others whom we think Catholics today ought to—need to—know or know better. . .

"The lived body is the prime organ of theologizing."

"Schindler, and not Brugger, is the real Aristotelian here."

"The real bone of contention . . . is whether or not there is anything like an Aristotelian nature."

"'Love alone' is the principle of theological intelligence."

"OAR, like all the other methods of ANT, is not the creation of stem cells without the creation of an embryo, but the cloning of a modified embryo. OAR, in a word, is cloning with a twist."

“Epigenetics, then, may be a (co)determinant of the one-celled embryo’s phenotypic profile, but it is not the primary determinant of its ontological status tout court .”

"ANT is technically and morally indistinguishable from human cloning."

"To be a person is to be a member of a communio personarum ."

“Everyday joy is at once a claim that the good is ontologically primary with respect to evil and the deed that backs the claim up.”

“Precisely in order to think with the ‘mind’ of Christ, the theologian has to assume the guardianship of human wonder—to enter into it, remain in it, and cultivate it.”

In his 1999 encyclical Fides et Ratio , Pope John Paul II affirms that "the human being can come to a unified and organic vision of knowledge" (FR, 85). The present issue of Communio explores two themes that, while at first sight seemingly unrelated, in fact converge in providing an opportunity to reflect on the nature of the unity that John Paul II insists human knowing can, indeed, must, attain in order to overcome the "fragmentation" that threatens the "interior unity" of the person (ibid).