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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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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 6, 2021 | 2021, America in decline, American virtues and vices, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, John Paul II, Labor Day 2021, Lawrence of Arabia by Robert Bolt, News, Plato, Robert Royal, Socrates, St. Augustine's "City of God", The Catholic Thing, The Labor for True Greatness | 0 |
Robert Royal: We need to rethink what is good or harmful, “the science of the good if you will,” in both temporal and eternal perspectives.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2021 | Commentary, Creature of the state, News, Orphans, Plato, republic, Socrates, Who's your Daddy | 0 |
In Plato’s “Republic,” Socrates discusses a society in which the state arranges marriages among its best citizens and assigns their offspring to nurses chosen for the job, “employing every device to prevent anyone from recognizing her own infant.” The state then carefully supervises the children’s education so that they form opinions “desirable for them to hold when they are grown up.”
Read Moreby 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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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2021 | 2021, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Brad Miner, C. S. Lewis, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Confucius, Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos, News, Out of the Silent Planet, Socrates, Sohrab Ahmari’s The Unbroken Thread, St. Augustine, St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Tertullian, The Catholic Thing, the Stoics | 0 |
Sohrab Ahmari was born in Tehran and, at 13, immigrated with his family to the United States. After law school,…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2021 | 2021, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Brad Miner, C. S. Lewis, Columns, Confucius, journalist-historian-biographer, News, Out of the Silent Planet, Saint John Henry Newman, Socrates, Sohrab Ahmari’s The Unbroken Thread, St. Augustine, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Tertullian, The Catholic Thing, the Stoics | 0 |
Sohrab Ahmari was born in Tehran and, at 13, immigrated with his family to the United States. After law school,…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 18, 2021 | Aquinas, Augustine, C. S. Lewis, Chesterton, Jesus Christ, News, Peter Kreeft, Socrates, The Dispatch, Writing | 0 |
Dr. Peter Kreeft is a prolific writer. Stunningly prolific. This is a man who has taught philosophy at Boston College since 1965, while maintaining a robust schedule as an in-demand speaker on all things Catholic—although […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 10, 2020 | 2020, Barack Obama, capacity for evil, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Gorée Island Senegal, House of Slaves, human imperfection, Jesus Christ, John Paul II, Maison des Esclaves, Michael Pakaluk, News, Romans 5:20, sin, slavery, Socrates, The Catholic Thing, Two Visits to the House of Slaves | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk on the differences in two speeches about confronting evil: one by President Obama, the other by St. John Paul II. The contrast is striking.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 25, 2020 | 2020, Aquinas, Aristotle, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, Cardinal Virtues, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Change the Model Change the Virtue, Columns, Dante’s Inferno, Faith Hope and Love, Fortitude, Gregory, Jesus Christ, Justice, Maximilian Kolbe, News, Perpetua and Felicity, Plato, prudence, Randall Smith, Socrates, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Mother Teresa, temperance, The Catholic Thing, Theological Virtues, Virgil’s Aeneid | 0 |
Randall Smith: Who is better prepared to flourish right now, Aristotle’s magnanimous man or someone more akin to St. Francis or St. Teresa of Calcutta?
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