What Is Catholic About a College Degree
Peter V. Sampo
President, Thomas More College
Let us assume the college has a Catholic liturgy, teaches Orthodox Catholic theology, and is under the auspices of a religious order, a diocese, or is, at least, canonically recognized by a diocese. Further, let us assume loyalty to the Magisterium. As necessary as [...]
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Vivant Dr. Sampo, Dr. Mumbach, Miss Bonifield, Mr. Shea, Miss Enos, and the others! — Semper Sint in Flore
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from my “Intellectual Autobiography”
Posted in Janus, anyone, beginnings, history, love?, pretentious, stars, sun, water, wind, wisdom on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This participation in the action of the truth, then, draws us into a deeper life where the deeds of the past enrich and enliven our present. It is not unlike the listening in which Faulkner’s Ike McCaslin first receives his paradoxical inheritance through the stories of Sam Fathers – an inheritance which to accept will [...]
An Aristophanic Impossibility
Posted in Archimedes, Hermes, Janus, Syracuse, annihilation, art, athens, beginnings, catapult, economy cars, fate, greek, hubris, love?, mania, mosaic, necessity, nemesis, pretentious, rain, speed, stars, summer, sun, the dramatic unities of time and place, the impossible, traffic on October 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am insane. I no longer doubt it. Allow me to convince you. This morning I found myself desperately trying to put milk in cereal instead of cereal in milk. Always with the same result: my cereal ended up in the milk, and not the other way round. I’d gone through three boxes of Grandy O’s and two [...]
