For many the outstanding Catholic academic of his generation, René Girard passed away Wednesday Nov. 4th, 2015.

For an obituary and brief account of René’s vital contribution to human thought, click here.

“For me he completely undid the secular Enlightenment’s undoing of Christianity.”  Sean O’Conaill

René Girard and ‘Mimetic Desire’

René Girard, Violence, Jesus and Repentance.

René Girard and the Problem of Atonement

Mimetic Desire, The American Dream and the Next Global Financial Crisis