Women and Redemption
Any reverent reading of Genesis sheds abundant light on the key role played by women in the economy of redemption. She was created last...
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A Plea: Back to Socratic Paganism
In the wake of Vatican II, the Church found herself in a state of turmoil. Everything was challenged; everything was put up for grabs....
Reverence: the Mother of All Virtues
One of the many ethical gems that Plato has left us is to be found in his last work: The Laws—a work alas often neglected by scholars...
Long Live Bareness
The trial Jewish women dreaded most was barrenness. To be unable to conceive was considered not only tragic but also shameful. Let us...
Omosessualit
Hell is the place where love is banished. Understandably, the Evil One not only loathes the very word, but moreover, animated by his...
In Defense of Discrimination
Years ago, the word “discrimination” was primarily used to make intelligent distinctions. A discriminating person was one capable of...
Classical Catholic Food
If anyone asked me, “What is the book on the spiritual life that you would recommend not only to beginners, but also to people who have...
Can Women Sing with a Bass Voice?
Our Holy Father has appointed a commission to examine whether or not women should be granted the diaconate. The question I raise is: Is it..
The Disease of Irreverence
Many sicknesses are contagious; health is not. It is regrettable, but it is a fact. Since original sin, intellectual viruses have...
The Moral Weight of Words
Man's nobility and greatness are expressed by his capacity to use words that enable him to communicate with his neighbors. One of the...
Freedom of Conscience
A glance cast at the religious literature of the last decade will immediately reveal the emphasis laid on freedom of conscience. Never...
Truth or Panic
From the very moment of our birth, we have a tacit (if unconscious) awareness of the precariousness of our metaphysical situation....
Kierkegaard and the Contemporary Crisis
A perusal of Kierkegaard’s works is bound to strike the contemporary man with wonder: not only did the great Danish thinker pre-live the...
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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