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The Mirror of Charity

Rievaulx Abbey, in the moors of north Yorkshire in England, is a ruin – approachable only by tourists. Yet spiritually,…

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The Wreck of Vatican II

“With conversion comes trouble,” St. Augustine warned us.  So it shouldn’t be surprising that the major public act of self-examination…

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The Wreck of Vatican II

“With conversion comes trouble,” St. Augustine warned us.  So it shouldn’t be surprising that the major public act of self-examination…

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The Wreck of Vatican II

“With conversion comes trouble,” St. Augustine warned us.  So it shouldn’t be surprising that the major public act of self-examination…

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From Here to Eternity

Few things challenge our tranquility and provoke a sense of existential dread more profoundly than the thought of death. If…

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The Color of Dinosaurs

A sentence in Chateaubriand’s Genius of Christianity, truly one of the masterworks of apologetics, caught my attention recently: “God might…

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Medieval ‘Reductio’ vs. Modern Reductivism

When, after a series of disputes, the great medieval doctor of the Church, St. Bonaventure was finally incepted as a…

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A Piecemeal Vatican III?

Our reading today is from the Book of Benedict XVI (A Life: Volume Two), in which he recounts to biographer…

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Truth is the Telos of a Catholic University

Is truth the telos of a Catholic university?  I’m using telos here the way social scientist Jonathan Haidt does in…

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Connecting the Generations

Psychologist Erik Erikson identified eight “stages of psychosocial development,” passage through which were sequential, cumulative, and necessary to healthy development. …

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In the Fullness of Time

A sacrament, as we learned from our catechism, is a visible sign of grace that does what it signifies.  Its…

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