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Last night I saw a documentary on the raising of the half-sunken ship Costa Concordia from its watery grave near the Giglio Porto at Tuscan Island off
Aquinas, like most indigenous and pre-modern thinkers, and unlike the human-centered philosophers of the modern and industrial era, begins his philosophy with the universe. Our
In yesterday’s DM we spoke of reintroducing a sense of the cosmos. To say that we need to “reintroduce” is to say that we have lost the
When Aquinas says that “the vision of God is arrived at through justice” means that the Via Transformativa and the work of justice open up
Aquinas tells us that the prophet Isaiah talks about two things— Justice, which he possesses, and a vision of God. And they follow one upon another. For
We have, necessarily it seems to me, been meditating on the very dark news coming from the current very compromised Supreme Court since they laid
We have been meditating on the signs of holiness in our time and have named two in previous meditations: Joy and Courage. Now we are considering
We spoke yesterday about how sometimes we choose fear. Why would anyone choose fear over love? Sometimes, to make money. Big money and big power. Riling up fear
A fine article in the Washington Post this weekend by Christine Emba explored the cause of the American gun fetish. In America today there are about 393 million
One way to grasp a spiritual concept is to consider its opposite first. What constitutes the opposite of joy? Sadness is an opposite of joy
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