The Joy of the Truth

The rhythm of argumentation that St. Thomas Aquinas used in his Summa Theologica was to explain the opposition to his position completely and accurately (oftentimes even better than the people holding the opposite position could explain it...

Last week I wrote about our culture's shift from a scientific worldview to the acceptance of untrusted authority as a source of truth. Over the weekend I happened upon an election-time statement from the American College of Obstetricians and...

If it seems at times that my blog posts are not in sync with current events, it's because most of them are a product of my meandering ponderings as I work in the garden, take a shower, or spend (distracted) time before the Blessed Sacrament. I was...

Are decisions of conscience private moral choices upon which nobody else should tread? Our culture seems to think so. However, the moral conscience always develops in the context of community as we seek objective moral truth together. The fact that our...

Yesterday I participated in a televised panel discussion on censorship, related to a program sponsored by our public library to promote reading. The program focused on the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, which is popularly interpreted to be about...