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.
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.
One of the most striking passages in all of Scripture is Job's prayer just after he has learned of the destruction not only of his sources of wealth (his beasts of burden and his servants) but also of his ten sons and daughters.
"No one can be relieved of the duty of forming his conscience," said my interlocutor, who was a bit surprised when I said that no one can do that on his own, and no one should attempt it, since man's capacity for self-deception is boundless.
A longstanding men's group brings community, stability to Poughkeepsie, New York parish.
"In the beginning was the Word ... and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." Divine revelation, I tell my students, is not simply the revelation of information; it is the revelation of a person.
Hilaire Belloc described a handful of activities which modern industrial and urban life has all too often endangered or made extinct, but should be recovered by today's Catholic men.
Earlier this week, on the first of May, the Church celebrated the memorial of St. Joseph the Worker.
Many attempts have been made to define the feminine, and more recently, the masculine genius.
In 1639, Ursuline sisters bravely crossed the Atlantic Ocean to become the first religious women to bring the Gospel to North America.
The only written words of mine that have ever had a practical effect on the world appeared in my review of Alexander McCall Smith's book "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency."