How to Contribute to Social Harmony
The great majority of Americans agree that overcoming the division among us is imperative. We have to learn to speak [...]
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Seeing Our Human Nature More Clearly
Rodin's The Thinker The Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796) wrote the following verse, expressed here in English prose: “O, [...]
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09, 2022
Jesuits’ View on Immigration Morality
At the end of the summer of 2022, Governors Abbott of Texas and DeSantis of Florida transported migrants to New [...]
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09, 2022
The Whatever School of Morality, Part 2
Part 1 of this essay explained that WhateverMorality is the belief that good and evil, right and wrong, are whatever [...]
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09, 2022
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
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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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 [...]