Mary, Martha, and “the better part”
Readings: • Gen 18:1-10a • Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 5 • Col 1:24-28 • Lk 10:38-42 Americans are, generally speaking, a pragmatic and practical people. We know how to get things done, how to organize, how […]
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by bcadmin | Jul 16, 2022 | Bethany, Jesus Christ, Josef Pieper, Lazarus, Mary and Martha, News, St. Ambrose, St. Gregory the Great, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Gen 18:1-10a • Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 5 • Col 1:24-28 • Lk 10:38-42 Americans are, generally speaking, a pragmatic and practical people. We know how to get things done, how to organize, how […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 26, 2022 | Abortion, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Essay, Features, George Orwell, John senior, Josef Pieper, Meaning, News, Roe v. Wade, U.S. Supreme Court, words | 0 |
We all know the nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall/ all the king’s horses and all the king’s men/ couldn’t put Humpty together again. It’s a kindergarten […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 21, 2022 | 2022, Benedict XVI, Catholic Culture, Columns, James V. Schall, John Emmet Clarke, Josef Pieper, News, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, reading, Robert Royal, St. John Paul II, T.S. Eliot, Take and Read Lest You Forget, The Catholic Thing, tradition | 0 |
College commencement season is upon us. Graduates now face the prospect that they may never again be required to read…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | 2021, Columns, Declaration of Independence equality, equality v. equity, FAQs, Francis X. Maier'a "Voodoo and Its Enchantments", George Orwell, James V. Schall, Josef Pieper, magic nouns, News, Newspeak, Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Francis X. Maier: Language shapes thought. Thought shapes choices and actions. Choices and actions shape and reshape the world.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2021 | 2021, Columns, David Warren, Discernment, Is God fooled?, Josef Pieper, Joseph de Maistre, News, The Catholic Thing, What Does God Say? | 0 |
David Warren: In my one “communication” with Jesus, “Cross this bridge with me,” was said entirely without words, yet entirely unambiguously.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 10, 2021 | Culture, Featured, Josef Pieper, liberalism, Media & Culture, News, Philosophy, Virtue | 0 |
Why Josef Pieper Needs To Be Read There are two ironies that characterize the life and works of Josef Pieper. He was born in the year 1904 in the Westphalian village of Elte, a town so isolated that no train was available to take any of its citizens to any other part of Westphalia. Yet […]
by bcadmin | Feb 14, 2021 | Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, Jesus Christ, John Lennon, Josef Pieper, News, St. Pope John Paul II, The Dispatch, Valentine's Day | 0 |
Saint Valentine’s Day is a good time to remind ourselves that human love is an imitation, a reflection, of the divine love that created all […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 27, 2020 | 2020, Anthony Esolen, Columns, Communists, Fyodor Abramov's The New Life: A Day on a Collective Farm (1963), Josef Pieper, News, No Feasts without God, Soviet Union, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Anthony Esolen: The Soviets preserved the custom of the Sabbath without the religious devotion that inspired it. It was rest for the human machine.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2020 | educaton, Ibram X Kendi, Josef Pieper, Matt Taibbi, News, Racism, Robin DiAngelo, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch, woke | 0 |
Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award in 2017 at the age of 41. She served as architect of the Pulitzer-Prize winning 1619 Project in 2019. Leading historians from the left and the right […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 14, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, Josef Pieper, News, prudence, virtues | 0 |
The virtue of prudence is our guide. We must grow in prudence through prayer and the use of reason in order to make decisions in our daily lives and to help us discern rightly the battles God is calling us to fight for His Kingdom.
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