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
Posted in Indian Summer, Janus, annihilation, anyone, art, athens, autumn, beginnings, bells, books, crannies, cry, defeat, dialogue, eccentric, exceptions, fate, flowers, greek, history, hubris, idiosyncrasy, language, letters, love?, mania, melos, mosaic, necessity, nemesis, nooks, polis, rain, rule, spring, stars, summer, the fall, the impossible, time, tragedy, wind, winter, wisdom, wit on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
even when what is below emerges, it is no longer what is below
Posted in Moby Dick, beginnings, nemesis, the dramatic unities of time and place, time, tragedy on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Beginning for my Moby Dick paper
Ahab’s monomaniacal identification of the white whale with a metaphysical principle of cosmic government (or evident mis-government), is to Ishmael tantalizing, seductive, but never final; in the context of Ahab’s quest, the whale becomes for Ishmael the seat of a question that haunts all interpretation. What is this “little lower [...]
The Voice of the Melian: the City Begins where the City Ends, Part I
Posted in athens, beginnings, greek, history, language, love?, melos, nemesis, polis, stars, the impossible, thucydides, tragedy on November 6, 2008 | 8 Comments »
In the latest comments on “Remember Melos”, itself a comment on a dialogue to which comment can only be late, Finny tries to read the voices of Athens and Melos. This reading begs the question: where is it that these voices can be heard? In what forum, what agora, what city can Athens and Melos have anything to say to each other? What assembly, and what sort [...]
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 [...]
