The Power of the Faithful
It’s entirely possible that passion is getting the best of intelligence here, but of late I have been coming to two realizations: the first is the true extent of the damage the current structures of...
View ArticleThe Power of the Faithful: Thoreau and Civil (Papal) Disobedience
In Thoreau’s 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, the driving idea was that one does not necessarily have to physically fight the government, but one must not support it or have it support one (if one is...
View ArticleOrganizational or Corporate Culture of the Church
Besides its structures of governance, the organizational or corporate culture of the Church obviously makes a huge difference in the way the Church is run. From Wikipedia:...
View ArticleJustice and the Structures of Governance in the Church
Here’s an interesting piece from the Wikipedia article on Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience on the question of the morality of structures of governance. He’s talking about the state here but it relates to...
View ArticleSex, Natural Law and Intellectual Corruption
Every time the hierarchy takes a stand on anything related to sexuality (e.g., the ban on artificial contraception, the ban on IVF, the attitude towards gays, the issue now manifesting in Wash DC with...
View ArticleCool Bits: Space-Time
While he doesn’t use the words, I get a strong sense of the idea of space-time from Aquinas, with us being stuck in space-time and God, having created it, being outside and uncontained by it, and...
View ArticleThe sad state of truth-telling and the high state of lie-receiving
The line is from the 3/15/10 edition of Sightings, Martin E. Marty’s weekly newsletter, and it describes one of the ongoing lunacies of Glenn Beck. “The fact that Mr. Beck charms millions of devotees...
View ArticleTradition in the Act of Recreating Itself
This, from a Commonweal blog post on the topic of the loss of the old-school Catholic culture and what that means for the future: “Every single 60-ish or 70-ish year old Commonweal Catholic can tell...
View ArticleA challenge to old progressives: Fixing the loss of collective memory
An article at National Catholic Reporter called A challenge to old progressives by Jamie L Manson (May. 06, 2010) struck home, about the gap between my generation of Catholics and those coming of age...
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“Cooperative Capitalism” – It Could Have Been “Catholic Capitalism”
“Hertz: There are already companies that have a cooperative business model. Start-ups in Silicon Valley or the suppliers of open-source software are just some examples. These industries are not driven...
View ArticleConversations of the future …
From the Commonweal Blog: “The Fordham Conversation Project … brought together young professors of theology to discuss their emerging role in the Church and university at a time of evident...
View ArticleStephen Hawking and why is there something rather than nothing — Read More...
From the Wall Street Journal book review of the new Stephen Hawking / Leonard Mlodinow book The Grand Design, in which he concludes that we don’t need the concept of God to answer the question, Why is...
View ArticleAquinas and the “New Athiests”
Fr. Brian Davies OP, Aquinas scholar among other things, takes on the new athiests: Dawkins, Dennett and Hitchens. Good stuff. It’s an audio recording.
View ArticleThe book that grew out of the blog
So I obviously haven’t been been blogging for a while – writing a book instead, in which Aquinas plays a starring role. Check it out at Duomo Press!
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