Ideology is the Enemy of True Faith
Events at the college where I teach have me thinking about the ersatz religion known as ideology.
Events at the college where I teach have me thinking about the ersatz religion known as ideology.
St. Philip Neri's example is something we desperately need in today's world, for our world is much like the Rome of his time.
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, an armistice was signed to signify the end of the First World War.
After seven months of recrimination and denunciation, where are the remains of the children buried at the Kamloops Indian Residential School?
Let's start with a simple irony. Much of today's chatter about "defending democracy," the sanctity of personal rights, and the sacred quality of human dignity comes from people who, consciously or otherwise, jeopardize all three by their actions.
One reason—perhaps the only reason—for optimism occasioned by the recent struggle for leadership of the Conservative Party in Britain is the remarkable ethnic diversity of the candidates and at the same time the almost non-existent part it played in the choice between them.
Welcome, everyone, to Word of the Week! And as is fitting for this day, and for our inaugural entry, today's word is LIBERTY.
I noticed a very pretty girl sitting not far from me on a bus ride of about 45 minutes last week.