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by bcadmin | Oct 12, 2022 | 2022, Cardinal Newman, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, gaudium de veritate, Gaudium et spes, John Henry Newman's "The Idea of a University", Jonathan Haidt, Michael Pakaluk, Michael Pakaluk's "Truth is the Telos of a Catholic University", News, Saint Augustine, search for truth, St. John Henry Newman, The Catholic Thing, truth is telos, truth through revelation | 0 |
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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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 22, 2022 | Confessions, News, Saint Augustine, The Dispatch | 0 |
On the 28th of August, we celebrated the feast day of the great St. Augustine, the anniversary of the day he died in the year 430 A.D. His name providentially points to his august status […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 27, 2022 | Church father, City of God, News, Saint Augustine, The Confessions, The Dispatch | 0 |
There are many reasons to celebrate the feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo on August 28. One obvious reason is that Augustine (354-430) was the bishop of Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria) during a tumultuous time […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 15, 2022 | Father, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Jesus Prayer, News, Prayer, Saint Augustine, Son, The Dispatch | 0 |
Many Catholics find themselves bewildered at the tidal wave of bad news they seem to encounter on a weekly basis. Tidal waves of prayer and the intense pursuit of holiness are needed to meet the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 10, 2022 | De Trinitate, Dorothy Sayers, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, nature, News, persons, Saint Augustine, Saint Paul, The Dispatch, Trinity | 0 |
Readings: • Prov 8:22-31 • Ps 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • Rom 5:1-5 • Jn 16:12-15 The apologist and novelist Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) dryly noted, in an essay titled “The Dogma is the Drama,” that for […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, divinization, Hans Urs von Balthasar, iconography, News, Saint Augustine, The Dispatch, The Spirit of the Liturgy | 0 |
What does it mean to see God? Are there special places to look, or particular ways to adjust our vision so that we might overcome our blind-spots about God—or much else? I spent the fall […]
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 | Aug 27, 2021 | Jesus Christ, Liturgy, News, Orthodoxy, Saint Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch, theosis, worship | 0 |
Doctrine exists for worship and not simply for itself. Doctrine apart from worship is barren. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 3, 2021 | Abortion, Easter, Jesus Christ, News, Resurrection, Saint Augustine, The Dispatch | 0 |
“On the morning of the first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together behind locked doors, suddenly, Jesus stood among them and said: ‘Peace be with you,’ alleluia.” — Antiphon, Evening Prayer, Easter Sunday. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 8, 2020 | Blessed Virgin Mary, divinization, Immaculate Conception, Jesus Christ, Karl Barth, Marian beliefs, News, Original Sin, Protestantism, Resurrection, Saint Augustine, Saint Paul, The Dispatch | 0 |
In December 2018, I wrote an article for Catholic World Report on the Immaculate Conception: “Why I came to believe that Mary was conceived without sin.” I argued that it was (1) a matter of […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 27, 2020 | Advent, Eschatology, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, Joseph Ratzinger, Last Judgment, News, Saint Augustine, Second Coming, The Dispatch | 0 |
On the Readings for Sunday, December 3, 2017, the First Sunday of Advent […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 5, 2020 | 1Cor 10:4, 2020, anguished struggle for faith, beatitudes, Blood of the Lamb, Book of Revelation, Catholic Church, Catholic liturgy, Catholicism, Columns, Fr. Robert P. Imbelli, God, Holy Indignation and the Grace of Lamentation, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, martyrs Nice France, Matteo Bruni, News, Old Testament, Pope Francis, Psalm 137, Psalms, Saint Augustine, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Fr. Robert P. Imbelli: The Spirit calls the Church to name the evils that afflict us and to celebrate the surpassing good for which we long.
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