A few years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates, winner of a MacArthur genius award, and a popular writer on race in America, admitted he had never heard of Saint Augustine.
The unique combination of metaphysical speculation and the wisdom of Christian revelation made possible the blessings of science and technology we enjoy today.
"History is bunk," said the inventor Henry Ford.
Despite recent encouraging court victories, it would be a mistake to believe that Catholic education is secure.
It is clear that something is going terribly wrong with regard to gender teaching in Ontario classrooms.
To help maturing adults ask the big questions and wrestle with the permanent things is to pay them the compliment of taking them seriously.
The Church played a central if not exclusive role in the establishment and encouragement of the university.
When the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of America was observed in 1892, the atmosphere was one of celebration.
In the early fourth century, famine and disease struck the army of the Roman emperor Constantine.
