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Wed 5 Nov, 2008

How Our Country Has Changed

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Our country once embraced the idea that citizens should practice virtue and be willing to sacrifice their own good for the good of the country. Politicians were seen as public servants elected to serve a term and then return to their role as citizens. Today our country embraces the idea that politics exists to serve the individual and professional politicians make a lucrative living and are motivated to keep office by toting the party line. The common good and subsidiarity have been sacrificed for private rights and entitlement. When did we change? Continue reading

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Fri 31 Oct, 2008

Thinking and Intelligence aren’t the Same as Wisdom

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This election season has seen more than its fair share of nonsense. When I complained to my mom that people just don’t think, she replied that people do think, it’s just that they think wrongly. American culture has mastered the art of rationalizing evil. Rationalization is the epitome of what Fr. Vann calls “intemperance of the mind.” Mom hit the nail on the head. Americans do think, bu they think wrongly. Continue reading

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Wed 8 Oct, 2008

The Peace of Supernatural Fortitude

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Supernatural fortitude is the confidence that God instills into the soul that is in relationship with Him that all dangers and difficulties will be overcome by His help. It empowers us to work for all that is good with diligence, but also with the peace that God will be the author of success no matter how successful we are — to care and not to care. Continue reading

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Wed 1 Oct, 2008

Cheaters Never Prosper

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Ok, “cheaters never prosper” is a cliche. But so is “every law was meant to be broken,” yet we hear this saying much more often – in word or idea. Our country is currently suffering from the greedy cheating of people associated with the Annie Mae and Freddie Mac companies. In 2002 we heard about a number of scholars who had plagiarized or otherwise misrepresented themselves and their scholarly work… Continue reading

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Tue 23 Sep, 2008

The History of Laziness

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A book review of Tom Lutz’s book Doing Nothing: a History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America makes the statement,

Sure, it might seem that the young man who sits at home in his bedroom all day refusing to hold a traditional job appears to be doing nothing, but when he eventually leaves the house, he might become one of the world’s greatest writers, as was… Continue reading

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