
Philosophers Are Only Human
COMMENTARY: Bertrand Russell may have been a great philosopher, but he doesn’t seem to have been deeply reflective.
COMMENTARY: Bertrand Russell may have been a great philosopher, but he doesn’t seem to have been deeply reflective.
COMMENTARY: Dominican Father Bede Jarrett’s 1922 essay rings especially true today.
COMMENTARY: Even in his error, H.L. Mencken provides real insight.
COMMENTARY: Whatever your reason for wanting to become Catholic, run with it. It’s your road sign pointing you in the right direction.
The Batallón de San Patricio of the 19th century gives us an example of faithfulness to remember.
COMMENTARY: Listening is not a passive attitude — listening is an active work, an apostolate that we do with intention
COMMENTARY: How many people who claim they think for themselves think any differently from the people around them?
COMMENTARY: ‘The little black smudge on the forehead,’ says Evelyn Waugh, seals Catholics as ‘members of a great brotherhood who can both rejoice and recognize the limits of rejoicing’
COMMENTARY: Atheism is generally the expression of a moral attitude more than a real intellectual conviction based on evidence thought through.
COMMENTARY: We’re the one criminal we can catch and keep safe and sane under his own hat by repentance, and we do that especially by repentance enacted in the confessional, and the graces God gives those who confess their sins.
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