Benedict and Dietrich
When, after fifteen years of voluntary exile, Dietrich von Hildebrand managed to come back to his beloved Munich in 1948, there was much...
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Yes, It Can Be Wrong to be Judgmental
The changes in the liturgy since Vatican II are so striking that many of my lapsed-Catholic friends who recently have started to attend...
Training, Information, Education: Treacherous Labels
Our indebtedness to Plato is great for having left us magnificent insights as to the meaning and purpose of education. A worthy son and...
Pagans or Apostates?
He who aims at changing society—-for good or for evil—knows that he should gain control over three things: education, news media, and...
The Eloquence of Silence
There is a Latin proverb worth meditating upon: si tacuises philosophus manssises (if you had remained silent, you would have remained a...
Unethical Ethics
The market is flooded with textbooks on ethics. Having taught this subject for many years in a secular university, I have been struck by...
Recalling a Hero
How easily do we forget! How easily heroes, who should be our role models for today, are classified in historical documents, which we file..
Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, Part I
Belgium is a small country whose geographical location led to her involvement in many European wars. Her climate is mild, and her rich...
The Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, Part II
Pierre Macq, Rector of the Catholic University of Louvain (CUL), claims that the University is not in conflict with the Catholic Church...
Truth or Panic
From the very moment of our birth, we have a tacit (if unconscious) awareness of the precariousness of our metaphysical situation....
Right and Wrong Ways to Influence People
Influence is an important dimension of communion between persons. The fact that one person can exert an influence on another is an...
Classroom Conversion
Not long ago, in my "Introduction to Philosophy" course, I was discussing truth. I gave my students the classical argument against...
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