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Forming Future Followers

Nearly every college and university in the country advertises itself as educating future "leaders." I am not as impressed as perhaps I should be.

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If We Want Better Schools, We Need to Be a Serious People

Our schools are failing not because of what happens in the classroom, but because of what happens—or more to the point, what doesn't happen—at the dinner table. If we wish to be a serious people, then we must bolster our institutions with the power to humanize and domesticate the bedlam within us all.

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Fear and Fearlessness

Fear no one ... do not be afraid ... be afraid ... do not be afraid (see Mt 10:26-33). Our Lord seems to be giving contradictory commands.

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Is pride worse than murder?

In considering the relative gravity of sins, Aquinas considers pride in itself as graver than murder, since pride, in its proper meaning, is by its very nature a turning away from God.

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