Why a Christian Anthropology Makes a Difference
It is simply impossible to agree on ethics, on how to act, on what is good and what is not, if you disagree about metaphysics or anthropology. And since ethics is unavoidable, so is anthropology.
A Chapter that Changed My Life: "Diary of a Country Priest"
"I have seen the devil, as I see you, since my childhood." - George Bernanos
The Lost Art of Intentionality
"All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber." - Blaise Pascal, Pensees (No. 139)
A Man’s Fear about Being a Man
"If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage."
Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well
A Different Thinking, Every Day
“There is an order that reason does not establish but only beholds, such is the order of things in nature.”
Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Simone Weil: A Thinker for Our Trying Times
Simone Weil may be best remembered for how she died.
When in Doubt the Go-To Principle
"I shall reproach him because he attaches little importance
to the most important things and greater importance
to inferior things." Socrates, Plato’s Apology
“Strange Rites” and the Promise of Natural Religion
Along with many other cultural commentators, I have been tracing for the past many years the phenomenon of religious disaffiliation...
Tolkienian Wisdom for Christmastide and the New Year
Our life, our home can be like Rivendell in the essentials. But it will require something very difficult.
Making Good Play Happen Today
What sounds like a sweet childhood ditty in fact points to one of the most significant, and challenging, of issues today.