Category: Joseph R. Wood

All About Australia

by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2022 | 2022, All About Australia, Columns, Joseph R. Wood, News, Robert Royal, St. Mary Cathedral, Sydney Harbor Bridge, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

Joseph R. Wood has moved to Australia, where he has found odd fauna, lovely accents, great people, and COVID restrictions on Mass attendance.

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What Are We Waiting For?

by bcadmin | Dec 17, 2021 | 2021, Advent, City of God, City of Man, Columns, heavenly kingdom, Joseph R. Wood, Mark Helprin’s A Winter's Tale, News, Peace on earth good will towards men, Socrates and Plato, St. Augustine, The Catholic Thing, tranquillitas ordinis, What Are We Waiting For?, “Thy Kingdom come” | 0 |

Joseph R. Wood: We wait for the Lord, and argue about justice. We wait for what we will have only in His Kingdom, which is not of this world.

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Walking, Thinking, and Praying

by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | 2021, Aristotle, Aristotle’s Physics, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, G.K. Chesterton’s biography of St. Thomas Aquinas "The Dumb Ox", Inertia, Isaac Newton’s “First Law of Mechanics”, James V. Schall, Joseph R. Wood, motion of objects, News, Plato, Saint Thomas Aquinas, The Catholic Thing, The Republic by Plato, Walking Thinking and Praying | 0 |

Joseph R. Wood: Faith and reason come together that we may see and understand reality in the fullness of truth, beauty, and goodness.

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Dignity and Distance

by bcadmin | Nov 19, 2021 | 1948 U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2021, Alasdair MacIntyre, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dignity and Distance, human dignity, human flourishing, Joseph R. Wood, Mary Ann Glendon, News, rights talk, The Catholic Thing, The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at Notre Dame, “I Have Called You by Name: Human Dignity in a Secular World” | 0 |

Joseph R. Wood: Whether the view of human dignity is philosophical or poetic, we must see others as God sees us: at a distance, and up close.

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On Wanting More: A Philosophical-Theological Potpourri

by bcadmin | Nov 5, 2021 | 2021, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo's On Free Choice of the Will., Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Joseph R. Wood, News, On Wanting More: A Philosophical-Theological Potpourri, Plato, Plato's Republic, Purgatorio Canto XIV, search for justice, Socrates, The Catholic Thing, “city for pigs” | 0 |

Joseph Wood: Overcoming inordinate desire seems easy with faith. Yet, for most of us, it’s the hardest thing. It doesn’t happen without grace.

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Satan Loves “Safety”

by bcadmin | Oct 22, 2021 | 2021, Catechism, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Government infantilizes us, Jesus Christ, Joseph R. Wood, News, Robert Hugh Benson’s Lord of the World, Satan Loves “Safety”, sin, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

Joseph Wood: Satan loves us to value our physical well-being above all else. Two historical trends have helped him pull us in that direction.

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Rebirths and New Beginnings

by bcadmin | May 21, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, French philosopher Pierre Manent, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Joseph R. Wood, News, Nicodemus, Pentecost, Rebirths and New Beginnings, Socrates, The Catholic Thing, You must be born again | 0 |

Joseph R. Wood: Christ explains the stakes of rebirth to Nicodemus: without it, we cannot see the Kingdom of God.

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The Trial of Jesus

by bcadmin | May 7, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Deuteronomy 13:1–5, Erasmus Lecture, God-man, Jesus Christ, Joseph H. H. Weiler, Joseph R. Wood, Lord of the Sabbath, News, Sanhedrin, The Catholic Thing, The Trial of Jesus, Virgin Birth | 0 |

Joseph R. Wood: Christ said his death would be necessary to fulfill his salvific mission. Thus was the Sanhedrin the agent of God’s will.

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Towards a New, and Quite Different, Tocqueville

by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | 1830s America, 2021, Alexis de Tocqueville, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Democracy in America, Francis X. Maier, Joseph R. Wood, News, The Catholic Thing, totalitarian liberty, Towards a New and Quite Different Tocqueville | 0 |

Joseph R. Wood: We need shepherds to lead us from godless illusions about equality to the lost truths of dogma.

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To Vax or Not to Vax

by bcadmin | Apr 9, 2021 | 2021, Abortion, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, COVID vaccines acceptability, Joseph R. Wood, morality of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, News, The Catholic Thing, To Vax or Not to Vax | 0 |

Joseph R. Wood: Deciding whether to vax, not from fear or nihilism but with faith and prayer, is another great opportunity to be fully human.

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Paintings and Pictures, Absence and Presence

by bcadmin | Mar 26, 2021 | 2021, Aristotle and happiness, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David Warren, God, Helprin's Paris in the Present Tense, Jesus Christ, Joseph R. Wood, Mark Helprin, Msgr. Robert Sokolowski, News, Paintings and Pictures Absence and Presence, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

Joseph R. Wood on the power of art to represent the real, especially real people in their happiness and sadness, sometimes both at once.

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More on “Form”

by bcadmin | Mar 12, 2021 | 2021, Alasdair MacIntyre's Dependent Rational Animals, Body of Christ, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dr. David Walsh, Hans Urs von Balthasar, James Matthew Wilson, Jesus Christ, Joseph R. Wood, Monsignor Robert Sokolowski, More on “Form”, News, proper form of humans, Put on our Lord Jesus Christ, Saint Paul, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

Joseph R. Wood: The best that we can do in describing our form, as St. Paul did, is to accept that the form of the human is Christ Himself.

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