About Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture
The importance of a sustained encounter with the claims of Catholic thought and culture has never been more important.
Springing from our commitment at the St. Thomas Center for Catholic Studies to contribute to national and international developments in Catholic higher education, we began publishing Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture more than 20 years ago. Since then, Logos has served as an interdisciplinary meeting point for scholars to publish their finest work and for readers to remain engaged in the beauty, truth and vitality of Christianity as it is rooted in and shaped by Catholicism.
Logos seeks a readership that extends beyond the academy and is especially interested in receiving submissions in:
- art, photography, architecture and music;
- theology, philosophy, history and literature;
- the natural and social sciences, public policy, and the professions.
I know of no Catholic journal quite like Logos – none that combines its deep moral courage with the sheer joy of what is good and beautiful.

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Submission Guidelines
Overview
All manuscripts must be in the English language. On extremely rare occasions, we may be persuaded to run an article in more than one language, only after the English version has been accepted.
Articles normally range from 3,000 to 9,000 words and should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. The editors prefer the documentary-note or humanities style over the author-date system or social-science style. Double-spacing, including endnotes, is mandatory.
Submissions should be in Word or PDF, sent via email attachment to the editors. If accepted a copy in Word is required.
Submissions should be prepared according to prevailing academic standards, including citation of sources and quotations.
The contributor’s name should appear only on page 1, then the title and manuscript begin on page 2.
Please number the manuscript pages consecutively in the upper-right-hand corner.
Submission and Publication Procedures
The editors prefer electronic submissions. Please e-mail submissions to logos@stthomas.edu.
If sending by mail, please send two copies of the manuscript to the editors at:
LOGOS
The University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Ave., Mail #55-S
St. Paul, MN 55105-1096
Please do not send the only existing copy of your work.
Multiple submissions
The editors assume that your essay is not being simultaneously considered for publication in other journals.
Required Information
All submissions should be preceded by a header containing the title of the material, the name(s) of the author(s), any affiliations, mail and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers.
Author’s proofs
Once your article is scheduled to appear in an issue, you will be notified about the tentative schedule. Uncorrected author’s proofs along with your copyedited manuscript will be sent to you approximately six weeks before publication. You should give these prompt attention and provide the editors with corrections. Extensive revision, however, will not be possible at that stage.
Complimentary copies
In lieu of offprints, you will be provided two copies of the issue of LOGOS in which your article appears.
Contributor Checklist
1. Please submit your article for blind review. Make sure that your name does not appear anywhere on your submission except for the header page. Check that your manuscript is double-spaced (including block quotations and endnotes), and that you have included page numbers.
2. Check that endnotes are used. Do not use footnotes. Type all endnotes at the end of the manuscript following the last page of text. See the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, pages 593–754 for a complete review of documentation and notes.
3. Check endnote style: it should be according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. For example:
Book:
- Walker Percy, The Message in the Bottle (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975), 258-64.
-or-
- Theodore W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin, The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940, ed. Henri Lonitz, trans. Nicholas Walker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Article:
- Kathleen Scullin, "Reading the Life of Walker Percy," Logos 1, no. 4 (1998): 30-33.
Second citation when it immediately follows the first*:
- Ibid., 264.
Second citation when it does not immediately follow the first
- Percy, Message, 259.
Do not use op. cit. or loc. cit. Frequently cited works by the same author (e.g., in a literary study) may use abbreviations in the text, with full titles at first appearance.
* Use and overuse of ibid. When a number of successive references are made to a single work, the full reference may be shortened by the use of page or line references, with or without abbreviations, placed in parentheses in the text, with full citations provided in an endnote at the first mention. See the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, sections 16.36-16.58, pp. 602-607.
4. Read and compare your electronic version to your hard copy. Check that they match exactly.
Decision Cycle
Copyrights and Reprints
Overview
All manuscripts must be in the English language. On extremely rare occasions, we may be persuaded to run an article in more than one language, only after the English version has been accepted.
Articles normally range from 3,000 to 9,000 words and should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. The editors prefer the documentary-note or humanities style over the author-date system or social-science style. Double-spacing, including endnotes, is mandatory.
Submissions should be in Word or PDF, sent via email attachment to the editors. If accepted a copy in Word is required.
Submissions should be prepared according to prevailing academic standards, including citation of sources and quotations.
The contributor’s name should appear only on page 1, then the title and manuscript begin on page 2.
Please number the manuscript pages consecutively in the upper-right-hand corner.
Submission and Publication Procedures
The editors prefer electronic submissions. Please e-mail submissions to logos@stthomas.edu.
If sending by mail, please send two copies of the manuscript to the editors at:
LOGOS
The University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Ave., Mail #55-S
St. Paul, MN 55105-1096
Please do not send the only existing copy of your work.
Multiple submissions
The editors assume that your essay is not being simultaneously considered for publication in other journals.
Required Information
All submissions should be preceded by a header containing the title of the material, the name(s) of the author(s), any affiliations, mail and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers.
Author’s proofs
Once your article is scheduled to appear in an issue, you will be notified about the tentative schedule. Uncorrected author’s proofs along with your copyedited manuscript will be sent to you approximately six weeks before publication. You should give these prompt attention and provide the editors with corrections. Extensive revision, however, will not be possible at that stage.
Complimentary copies
In lieu of offprints, you will be provided two copies of the issue of LOGOS in which your article appears.
Contributor Checklist
1. Please submit your article for blind review. Make sure that your name does not appear anywhere on your submission except for the header page. Check that your manuscript is double-spaced (including block quotations and endnotes), and that you have included page numbers.
2. Check that endnotes are used. Do not use footnotes. Type all endnotes at the end of the manuscript following the last page of text. See the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, pages 593–754 for a complete review of documentation and notes.
3. Check endnote style: it should be according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. For example:
Book:
- Walker Percy, The Message in the Bottle (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975), 258-64.
-or-
- Theodore W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin, The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940, ed. Henri Lonitz, trans. Nicholas Walker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Article:
- Kathleen Scullin, "Reading the Life of Walker Percy," Logos 1, no. 4 (1998): 30-33.
Second citation when it immediately follows the first*:
- Ibid., 264.
Second citation when it does not immediately follow the first
- Percy, Message, 259.
Do not use op. cit. or loc. cit. Frequently cited works by the same author (e.g., in a literary study) may use abbreviations in the text, with full titles at first appearance.
* Use and overuse of ibid. When a number of successive references are made to a single work, the full reference may be shortened by the use of page or line references, with or without abbreviations, placed in parentheses in the text, with full citations provided in an endnote at the first mention. See the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, sections 16.36-16.58, pp. 602-607.
4. Read and compare your electronic version to your hard copy. Check that they match exactly.
Decision Cycle
Copyrights and Reprints
Announcing a Special Supplement of Logos

Taking Stock of the Catholic Studies Movement
Faculty and leaders of Catholic Studies programs are invited to contribute to the upcoming digital supplemental issue of Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture (planned for Summer 2023) focused on the challenges and achievements of Catholic Studies programs.
See below for additional information.
Taking Stock of the Catholic Studies Movement: Current and Future
Background
Two interlocking phenomena present special challenges for Catholic Studies
programs today:
- A significant decline in the number of students entering college, due both to demographic shifts and the percentage of high school graduates choosing to go on to college, and
- The way many universities are reacting to that shrinking pool, by cutting back on programs that don’t have a clear career path or cannot promise highpaying jobs upon graduation. This often includes cuts to the Humanities.
How can our Catholic Studies programs meet these new challenges? What strategies can we develop for dealing with our new reality? How can we help position our Catholic Studies programs as essential to our schools’ missions and effectively communicate to administration the religious, intellectual, and career
integration we seek to teach?
The Call For Articles
Faculty and administrators of Catholic Studies programs are invited to send us articles and reflections to be considered for our upcoming digital supplement of Logos on the Catholic Studies movement. We hope to include as many different Catholic Studies programs as possible. Submissions could include:
- Academic research related to Catholic Studies administration, and pedagogy
- Reflections on strategies, successes, and conflicts in working with your administration and articulating why Catholic Studies shouldn’t be pushed aside in favor of “practical” programs.
- Faculty reflections on the classroom experience: what specifically makes your
class a “Catholic Studies” class? What examples or strategies can you share
with other programs? - Original visual art, photography, short-form poetry, or humor on the theme of
Catholic Studies
How to Submit
Email your submissions to logos@stthomas.edu by January 30, 2023. Please make the email subject line “Catholic Studies Supplement” and note it in the email cover letter.
- 2,000-8,000 words for articles. Chicago Manual of Style: Times New Roman,
12pt, endnotes, double-spaced - Submissions will be blind reviewed by our editorial team. Please have a header on page 1 with your name, affiliation and contact information and then begin the article itself on page 2.
Background
Two interlocking phenomena present special challenges for Catholic Studies
programs today:
- A significant decline in the number of students entering college, due both to demographic shifts and the percentage of high school graduates choosing to go on to college, and
- The way many universities are reacting to that shrinking pool, by cutting back on programs that don’t have a clear career path or cannot promise highpaying jobs upon graduation. This often includes cuts to the Humanities.
How can our Catholic Studies programs meet these new challenges? What strategies can we develop for dealing with our new reality? How can we help position our Catholic Studies programs as essential to our schools’ missions and effectively communicate to administration the religious, intellectual, and career
integration we seek to teach?
The Call For Articles
Faculty and administrators of Catholic Studies programs are invited to send us articles and reflections to be considered for our upcoming digital supplement of Logos on the Catholic Studies movement. We hope to include as many different Catholic Studies programs as possible. Submissions could include:
- Academic research related to Catholic Studies administration, and pedagogy
- Reflections on strategies, successes, and conflicts in working with your administration and articulating why Catholic Studies shouldn’t be pushed aside in favor of “practical” programs.
- Faculty reflections on the classroom experience: what specifically makes your
class a “Catholic Studies” class? What examples or strategies can you share
with other programs? - Original visual art, photography, short-form poetry, or humor on the theme of
Catholic Studies
How to Submit
Email your submissions to logos@stthomas.edu by January 30, 2023. Please make the email subject line “Catholic Studies Supplement” and note it in the email cover letter.
- 2,000-8,000 words for articles. Chicago Manual of Style: Times New Roman,
12pt, endnotes, double-spaced - Submissions will be blind reviewed by our editorial team. Please have a header on page 1 with your name, affiliation and contact information and then begin the article itself on page 2.
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Editorial Board
Under the oversight of Dr. Michael J. Naughton, Director for the Center for Catholic Studies, Logos is grateful for the support provided by the distinguished members of our editorial board.
"It is truly encouraging to engage the reflections on the interplay of Catholic thought and culture as presented in Logos. . . . This dicastery commends the assembly of such a fine editorial board to review the journal and the standard of excellence that governs the quality of research and publication."
— Archbishop Reverend Giuseppe Pittau, SJ, Congregation for Catholic Education, Rome, Italy
Helen Alvaré
Antonin Scalia Law School
Gary A. Anderson
University of Notre Dame
Rémi Brague
Sorbonne
Ludwig-Maximilians University
Robert Coles
Harvard University
Brian Daley, SJ
University of Notre Dame
David P. Deavel
University of St. Thomas, Houston
Anthony M. Esolen
Northeast Catholic College
J. L. A. Garcia
Boston College
Mary Ann Glendon
The Law School
Harvard University
John Haldane
Baylor University
James L. Heft, SM
Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies
University of Southern California
J. Bryan Hehir
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Ian Ker
Blackfriars
Oxford
Anthony Low
New York University
Charles Morerod, OP
Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva, and Fribourg
Angelo Cardinal Scola
Archbishop of Milan
Linda Zagzebski
University of Oklahoma
Carol Zaleski
Smith College
Meet the Logos Editors
Raymond N. MacKenzie
Professor of English with special interest in Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton, as well as the Catholic novel. He has translated works by Mauriac, Montesquieu, Balzac and others.
John F. Boyle
Expertise in the thought and culture of the Latin Middle Ages, with particular attention to the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Thomas More.
David N. Foote
Area of training and research includes European Middle Ages with particular emphasis in the Italian city-states, the papal state, and the mendicant orders.
Kathryn Wehr
Focused on theology and the arts, she is a scholar of Dorothy L. Sayers’s religious drama, with additional interests in the craft, collaboration, and spiritual formation of artists.
Contact Us
Tel: 651-962-5702
Email: logos@stthomas.edu
Mailing Address
2055 Summit Avenue, Mail 55-S
St. Paul, MN 55105