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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I am beginning to wonder where the heart of our great country has gone.
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In appreciation of our country's founders and its greatest living historian.
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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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What did the Christians cherish from the pagan traditions, and what did they change?
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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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EDITORIALS OF INTEREST
The Fourth of July and the Pursuit of Happiness - NCRegister
Just as the respiratory, digestive and circulatory systems operate harmoniously in the human body, so, too, must life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness operate harmoniously in the social order. This will happen only if people pursue their happiness through self-forgetful love.
Red,White,Blue & Catholic too - Examiner
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Scenes from an Interview - Whispers
As the dust settles from yesterday's reporter-roundup with President Obama, the takes of several outlets in attendance are now on the wire.
President Obama Meets with Catholic Journalists - Inside Catholic
Yesterday, President Obama held a 45-minute meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House with some members of the Catholic press.
Inquisitive Vatican — or Vatican inquisition? - Get Religion
It’s very appropriate that the New York Times highlight one of the developing, perhaps major religious news stories.
Fr. Farrow’s Rebellion, Action against Knights of Columbus - Catholic Online
Father Farrow has chosen to engage in open rebellion and anti-Catholic activism. He is also trying to destroy the Knights of Columbus.
Obama Reaches Out Before Vatican Trip - Washington Post
As he prepares to meet the pope, the president says he “favors a ‘robust’ federal policy protecting health-care workers who have moral objections to performing” abortions.
An American Virtue - In Character
The story of the world is mirrored in the history of words. And because that story is full of surprises and paradoxes, the words we use are bound to reflect that fact.
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