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Category Archives: philosophy
The Theology classroom
Part of the Alumni Discernment & Volunteer Program is the opportunity for us young alums to get our feet wet in areas we’d like to get involved with in the future. As I’ve mentioned before, my desire is to teach … Continue reading
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BXVI’s letter on communications
The World Day of Social Communications is still over 5 months away, but Papa Benedetto gets prepped for these things early. Here’s his letter on social media, published today on the memorial of St. Francis de Sales, patron of communicators. … Continue reading
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BXVI on conversions
BXVI’s Christmas address to the Curia: http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-31289 What I found most interesting was the concluding section, on Newman. BXVI outlines Newman’s threefold conversion: intellectual, moral and religious. The key to his intellectual conversion was the realization that what is “most” … Continue reading
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O HUvB
One of the joys of Christmas break is that I gain ample time to read (or attempt to read) all the things I actually want to read. I just finished HH BXVI’s latest interview with Peter Seewald last night (recommended … Continue reading
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classical education
A good friend sent me this link: http://www.insidecatholic.com/feature/a-new-old-model-for-catholic-schools.html. For all intents and purposes this school model looks excellent. Let me emphasize that this seems not to be merely “going back to the past” but, like with HH BXVI’s freeing-up of the … Continue reading
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the current academic lineup
Rather than actually begin my reading, why not blog about it first? (Shane, you would be proud.) Tonight: I’m about to read “The Crossing of Being” from Jean-Luc Marion’s God Without Being (let’s see how many people get confused about … Continue reading
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The most badass commencement address I’ve ever heard
Two weekends ago, my brother Jeff graduated from St. Vincent College (congrats again, dude. Hope you read my blog – a Facebook comment, or lack thereof, on this post will be telling). Apparently a few years ago, St. Vincent landed … Continue reading →