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Karol Wojtyła had two convictions that shaped his papal ministry and his thinking about education:
In the year ahead, a great many people will be watching our nation's Catholic leadership. They will be led, for good or for ill, by the witness of America's bishops.
The season of Advent is lyrically beautiful if one is willing to engage the realities it teaches: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell.
Several of our Lord's parables have to do with productivity in one form or another.
In the late nineteenth century, a New England college dean wrote: "The youth who loves his Alma Mater will always ask, not 'What can she do for me?' but 'What can I do for her?'"
The wife of a most distinguished oil painter, who taught at the Art Students League for many decades, having started there as a boy with a scholarship given by Mayor LaGuardia, told me that he had "perfect pitch" when it came to mixing his palette.
In one survey of grammarians, two words deemed to be among the most beautiful sounding in the English language were Agape and Philadelphia.
Since the spirit of the world is rooted in self-love, it seeks the truth only if it is pleasing.