The Lenten Cure for Secular Optimism
COMMENTARY: I love Lent, but some people don’t, and sometimes I don’t either.
COMMENTARY: I love Lent, but some people don’t, and sometimes I don’t either.
COMMENTARY: We try to live the family’s life, which reflects their teaching, and we eventually understand, or maybe not. But we live it, because it’s our family’s life.
COMMENTARY: We are one and need to live as one. That was one great lesson of Christmas that Dorothy Day saw and lived.
COMMENTARY: Dealing with evidence is always complicated, and tricky, and may or may not lead to a conclusion. But you’ll never get anywhere if you dogmatically refuse to accept the evidence as evidence.
COMMENTARY: We too easily confuse worldly status with virtue and confuse the nice things status brings with the visible signs of goodness.
COMMENTARY: Catholics can approach political issues with a clear set of principles, but must go a long way to figure out how to incarnate those principles in the public law and policy.
COMMENTARY: Courtesy is an old-fashioned and out-of-fashion word, but it’s an up-to-date idea.
COMMENTARY: Courtesy is an old-fashioned and out-of-fashion word, but it’s an up-to-date idea.
COMMENTARY: As you draw closer to the Church, be prepared for unsolicited advice from friends and acquaintances who suddenly decide you must be a dolt or a dreamer.
COMMENTARY: Bertrand Russell may have been a great philosopher, but he doesn’t seem to have been deeply reflective.
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