The Difference Between Firmness and Cruelty
Marie, like all the sentimentalists, believes that firmness and cruelty are the same. This unwillingness or inability to make proper distinctions is a form of moral cowardice.
Marie, like all the sentimentalists, believes that firmness and cruelty are the same. This unwillingness or inability to make proper distinctions is a form of moral cowardice.
Chances are you're worried about the never-ending rise in college tuition and the debt you're racking up.
What is happening in Catholic sex education in schools? In this recent talk, Jonathan Doyle outlines some of the big picture.
When Shakespeare lost out to 'rubrics of gender, sexuality, race, and class' at UCLA, something vital was harmed.
If students attend schools which are run as sexual playgrounds, is it any wonder if they fail to learn?
I've lately been involved in the fight against the latest move to nationalize public education, this one called the Common Core. It is a bag of rotten old ideas doused with disinfectant; its assumptions are hostile to classical and Christian approaches to education.
I've donned my boots and leggings, and done what I had no desire to do. I am examining, with tedious scrutiny, the so-called Common Core Curriculum for literature and English, a new'n'improved set of standards for reading and writing in our schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade.
150 years later, Rex Murphy explains the power of the Gettysburg Address.
Now that new and more concerning information regarding the Common Core is coming our way, there is no harm or foul in hitting the pause button or changing course.
Recently, as readers may have heard, our administration at Providence College retracted an invitation to a Professor John Corvino, who afterwards said in disgruntlement that he'd been looking forward to speaking at a Catholic college like ours, to persuade young people that the homosexual life was good for the individual and for the society.