July 14, 2019
“Telescopic Philanthropy” is what Charles Dickens called it.
June 30, 2019
Simone Weil, that eccentric and brilliant woman, said once, rather famously, that it was “more useful to contemplate our stupidity than our sin.” Contemplating sin risked pride, she said; admitting failure due to “sheer stupidity,” on the other hand, the bad results of our plain mediocrity: “No knowledge is more to be desired,” she wrote. Because […]
June 15, 2019
Today we celebrate the most Holy Trinity, the Catholic dogma of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We must admit, though, it’s something of a troublesome dogma, difficult if not embarrassing for some. It’s always been so.
June 8, 2019
I always think of Saint Philip Neri around Pentecost. You might’ve not heard of him; he’s less popular these days than he used to be.
May 26, 2019
The guardians of Plato’s just city had to be brave.
May 19, 2019
In George Orwell’s novel 1984—in that dark world, that dystopia—there is something called the “Two Minutes Hate.”