Jan

15

Saint Joseph: An Image of the Blessed Trinity

January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments

As I write this, it is the Feast of the Holy Family, the first Sunday after the Epiphany. On this day, the Church celebrates Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the human holy trinity that perfectly images the divine Holy Trinity. In the Godhead there is a family of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; on earth, there [...]

Jan

15

The Right Stuff: On Barack Obama and the Conversion of America

January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Of what stuff are you made? Is it — to borrow a line from Saint Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons — “the stuff of which martyrs are made”? This is a question we would do well to ponder as we examine our commitment to the Faith.
To be sure, it is God who [...]

Jan

5

The Great Stereopticon

January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Reproduced below are about two pages of the thinking of Richard Weaver, the philosopher whose work we recommended in our third installment of the recent series on American culture. The subject of Weaver’s text: “the great stereopticon.” Borrowing the name of the nineteenth-century pre-film viewing device, the reality the Platonic philosopher critiques is the technologically [...]

Jan

2

Conscience and the Nannie State

January 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

Visiting a nearby college recently, I picked up the campus newspaper to see what the students are reading nowadays. The front-page headline proclaimed that the dean of the college opposes lowering the legal drinking age from 21 back to 18. It seems that binge drinking is a problem on campus, and this problem is pandemic. [...]