“All your ways may be straight in your own eyes, but it is the Lord who weighs hearts.” — Proverbs 21:2 I am not much of a scientist, but if I were to hold a […]
France has been shaken by the realization that gifted people have been abusers. Some were known but their abuse was ignored; the pedophile author Gabriel Matzneff, once honored, is now in disgrace. But the worst […]
“Catholic thought must be raised up with Jesus between heaven and earth and it has been asked to work at the reconciliation of the world to the truth by living out the painful paradox of […]
From its very outset Christianity was . . . a feeling which merely disgusted, hid and decked itself out in its belief in a ‘another’ or ‘better’ life . . . a Beyond, invented in […]
I admire anyone who has the guts to write anything at all.” — E.B. White The novel Cheaper by the Dozen saved my life. Like every student who passes through St. John’s College’s Great Books […]
A neglected insight of Scholastic political philosophy and traditional conservatism is that institutions can have a personal nature. The Church, a government, a business firm, a university, a club, and similar social formations are like this. They […]
On April 14, 2021 America Magazine, as part of its ongoing “Conversations” in America Media, published an article I wrote entitled: “For the church to live in eucharistic coherence, we must be willing to challenge […]
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum. Loosely translated as “do not speak ill of the dead,” it remains good advice, particularly when reflecting on the life of someone with whom you disagreed about many things. The […]
Richard Weaver, the political philosopher, once wrote that “ideas have consequences.” And therein lies a tale. In June 2001, exactly 20 years ago, a friend of mine and his wife attended a meeting in Washington, […]
Objection 1. It seems there is a moral obligation, for one is obligated to care for one’s own body and to care likewise for the body of the neighbor, who by divine command is to […]
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