Can Thinking Really Be Taught?
My recent essay, “The Decline of Thinking in America,” included the recommendation that schools should change their emphasis from “telling students [...]
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04, 2022
The Decline of Thinking in America
Late one night many years ago, my college roommate awakened me with the announcement [...]
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04, 2022
The Unfathomable Silence of the Shepherds
The Shepherd metaphor is one of the clearest and most vivid in all of Scripture and not surprisingly was adopted [...]
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04, 2022
A New Catholic View on Homosexuality?
In the past, Munich's Cardinal Reinhard Marx has given his blessing to same-sex couples. Now he is going a step [...]
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04, 2022
Disappointment with the Catholic Hierarchy
Bishop Howard Hubbard In a court deposition, Bishop Emeritus Howard J. Hubbard, Diocese of Albany NY, has admitted [...]
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03, 2022
The Lost Art of Listening
Listening to others is fast becoming a lost art. The most common sign of this is refusal to listen to [...]
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03, 2022
Men’s Shameful Attitudes Toward Women
The history of men’s attitudes toward women has been, in a word, shameful. In the beginning, at the dawn of [...]
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The Ukrainians’ Timeless Example
President Zelensky The start of 2022 has been strange indeed, not only for Europe, but for the entire [...]
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02, 2022
In Praise of Virtue
Virtue may be defined simply as doing the right thing and heroic virtue as doing the right thing at great [...]
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02, 2022
The Catholic Church and Contraception, Part 4
Part 1 explained that Catholic teaching on contraception, and its larger teaching on marriage, were based on St. Augustine of Hippo’s [...]