Beauty
At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked an educated person to describe the goal of poetry, art, or music, "beauty" would have been the answer.
In an age of declining faith art bears enduring witness to the spiritual hunger and immortal longings of our species. Hence aesthetic education matters more today than at any previous period in history.
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May 31 was the 200th anniversary of Franz Joseph Haydn's death in 1809 at the age of 77.
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For those of us who love the West, we are in a daunting battle. The other side has the mainstream media, the Ivy League, the political classes, and a lot more money. Thankfully, on our side, we've got thousands of years of history and some pretty big guns -- with names like Aristotle, Augustine, Burke, and Eliot.
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"Harder to kill than a vampire." That is what the sociologist Joel Best calls a bad statistic. But, as I have discovered over the years, among false statistics the hardest of all to slay are those promoted by feminist professors.
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A new documentary shows why we need to "stem" the tide of embryo-destructive stem-cell research.
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Imagine - Robert Royal
Imagine, if you will, just as a thought experiment, a nation that for two generations has been forming almost all its children in state-run schools.
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Eight years ago today, a famous American philosopher died who had lived as a Catholic the last year of his life.
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The relation of language to thought has long been a philosophical puzzle, one to which no universally accepted answer has yet been given.
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Clint Eastwood’s 2008 project Gran Torino has recently been released on DVD, and what a delight it is.
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Many Catholics just don’t know what to say when someone asks them whether they are saved.
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In the Aristotelian tradition, virtue stands in the middle, between two extremes, a too much and a too little.
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EDITORIALS OF INTEREST
Per "Caritas," Six Days' Notice - Whispers
This morning, the Holy See announced next Tuesday, 7 July, as the release date for B16's social encyclical "Caritas in Veritate."
Miracle in Kansas - The Wichita Eagle
The case for the sainthood of a Servant of God, Fr. Emil Kapaun, may be supported by the remarkable recovery of an injured athlete.
Veiled threats: row over Islamic dress opens bitter divisions in France - Guardian
In the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, with its busy market, fast-food joints and bargain clothes shops, Angelica Winterstein only goes out once a week – and only if she really has to.
Mexico City Policy Fallout - NCRegister
Speaking to Vatican Radio, our Latin America correspondent Alejandro Bermúdez recently outlined some of the evil consequences of President Barack Obama’s cancellation of the Mexico City Policy.
Atheist Summer Camps? - London Telegraph
An atheist worries about what will happen to children at atheist summer camps.
A Religious but Unspiritual Society - Irish Times
A historian explains some of the reasons behind child abuse by the Church in Ireland.
Back to the Dating Drawing Board - NCRegister
Gina Zaccagnini laughs at the thought of her first date. She was in high school. Her little brother had to come along to the movie.
A Different Strategy for the Hearings - NRO
Let Sotomayor talk — and get on the record what Dems don’t want explained about the law.
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