+ Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of…
Details+ This, perhaps more than anything else, made John Paul the Great intelligible to me, as well as disclosing the Assumption for what it is – an eerily prophetic response to the pathologies of our age. For John Paul, the understanding of what Christ had done for Mary was inextricably bound up with his understanding…
Details+ Those who fail to exhibit positive attitudes, no matter the external reality, are seen as maladjusted and in need of assistance. Their attitudes need correction. Once we adopt an upbeat vision of reality, positive things will happen. This belief encourages us to flee from reality when reality does not elicit positive feelings. These specialists…
Details+ A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of…
DetailsHome. + In memory of Fr. James Sadowsky, S.J.: “I may not look like a cup of coffee, but I certainly feel like one.” + “The word philosophy comes from the Greek word philosophia, which means philosophy.” + “We wouldn’t have the concept of free will, unless we had it.” + “A student of mine…
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