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by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2022 | Aristotle, Dante, Homer, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Milton, News, Politics, The Dispatch, The Hobbit, The Hobbits, The Shire, Tom Bombadil, Virgil | 0 |
Great literature is, almost inevitably, a political affair. It could hardly be otherwise. Poetry, as Aristotle recognized long ago, plays with the universals of human experience — and man is a political animal. Thus the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 25, 2022 | Analysis, Aristotle, Benedict XVI, Catholic education, Education, Essay, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Features, John Paul II, liberal arts, News, Plato | 0 |
For more than forty years, Catholic liberal arts colleges have, to put it mildly, struggled to carve out a recognizable intellectual and educational place in the ever-shifting landscape of American higher education. That they have […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 12, 2022 | Aristotle, Benedict XVI, Disney, Essay, Étienne Gilson, Features, Homosexuality, Jesus Christ, language, Lewis Carroll, LGBTQ, logos, max picard, Msgr. Robert Sokolowski, News, Saint Thomas Aquinas, self-identification, sodomy | 0 |
Almost everyone is familiar with Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. In one of its most famous passages, Carroll neatly encapsulates the central issue in the use and abuse of language: “When I use a […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 29, 2022 | Aristotle, being, Christianity and science, E.F. Schumacher, Essay, Eucharist, Features, Jesus Christ, matter, News, physics, Plato, Prayer, René Descartes, Ricky Gervais, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes | 0 |
The other night, I watched a few minutes of the comedian Ricky Gervais’s new comedy show. Early in, he does a bit about his atheism and his willingness nonetheless to abide expressions of religious devotion. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 11, 2022 | Aristotle, golden mean, Good decision, Gospel, Immanuel Kant, News, Right decision, Simple Holiness, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Thomas Aquinas | 0 |
It may seem that making the right and good decision in every situation we face is a difficult thing to do. But I am here to say, “It’s really not that hard.” Making good, right, ethical decisions comes down to the habits we form each day, which eventually form us to become the people we are.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 14, 2022 | Aristotle, Ask Your Husband, Books, Features, Genesis, husband, Marriage, News, Pope Pius XI, Pope St. John Paul II, Saint Paul, Stephanie Gordon, Tan Books, wife | 0 |
Reading Stephanie C. Gordon’s Ask Your Husband: A Catholic Guide to Femininity feels like a meandering stroll down a familiar lane. I was raised in conservative evangelicalism, and Gordon echoes many of the messages I […]
Read Moreby 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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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 11, 2021 | Analysis, Aristotle, Bible, Education, Features, Greece, History, News, Saint Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, trivium | 0 |
In recent decades, Catholic education has become less and less distinct from mainstream schooling. Catholic educational leaders often talk of the need to educate the whole person and to instill “values” in pupils, notwithstanding the […]
Read Moreby 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 | Oct 27, 2021 | 2021, America's founding principles, Aristotle, Boethius, Cicero, Columns, Dabney Carr, domestic happiness, Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum, life liberty and property, Michael Pakaluk, News, Pope Leo XIII, Samian sage, The Catholic Thing, The Pursuit of Happiness, Thomas Jefferson | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk: “Happiness” is an essentially contested idea, but we’re far from able to peremptorily declare the Founders misguided.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 9, 2021 | 2021, Aristotle, Avery Dulles, Columns, contemplation, Edith Stein, Edmund Husserl, fatalism, Martin Heidegger, News, Pelaginism, Perseid Meteor Shower, Ps. 46:9-11, Robert Royal, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Summer Stillness by Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Robert Royal: We often look at others and ourselves scientifically and not as the strange and wonderfully inexplicable beings that we all are.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2021 | 2021, anti-christian, Aristotle, Columns, David Carlin's "An Excess of Christian Charity?", LGBTQ+ movement, News, Saint Thomas Aquinas, underestimating Catholicism's enemies | 0 |
David Carlin: It’s a fatal error to mistake enemies for friends, and many Catholic bishops are insufficiently suspicious of the Church’s foes.
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