The Whatever School of Morality
One of the most fundamental and ancient moral precepts is Do Good and Avoid Evil. It was expressed (in different [...]
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09, 2022
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09, 2022
The Morality of Forgiving Student Loan Debt
President Biden’s plan to forgive student loans has prompted a national discussion, and the Jesuit publication America Magazine has offered its [...]
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08, 2022
The Inflation of Infallibility
-----------Carl Rogers---------- My recent essay on the doctrine of Papal Infallibility showed that many popes were mistaken about [...]
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08, 2022
The Befuddling Concept of Infallibility
Catholicism is the only religion that formally claims infallibility for its leaders. Infallibility is defined as being "exempt from error [...]
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08, 2022
Restoring Social Harmony
I ended my recent essay, “Revisiting Ancient Wisdom,” by recalling Confucius’ view that getting beyond self-adulation improves ourselves, our communities, [...]
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07, 2022
The Culture of Absurdity
The battle for social dominance is over and the results are clear—common sense has been routed and absurdity is savoring [...]
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07, 2022
Revisiting Ancient Wisdom
Recently, as I was browsing through my bookshelves, I came across a little book I had bought in Singapore in [...]
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07, 2022
Misrepresenting Catholic Teaching
I recently expressed concern about the Catholic hierarchy’s troubling stance on homosexuality. Another statement by Pope Francis unfortunately increases rather [...]
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07, 2022
Changing Perceptions of God and Self
If members of my generation were asked the following questions when they were in their 20s, here is how I [...]
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06, 2022
The Catholic Hierarchy’s Embrace of Homosexuality
On the matter of homosexuality or, LBGTI+ as it is fashionably known, the Catholic hierarchy have been at least disingenuous [...]