|
|
|
|
What Happened to Notre
Dame?
Charles E. Rice
What Happened to Notre Dame?
first recounts the details of Notre Dame’s honoring of President Obama. It then examines the succession of fall-back excuses offered by the Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., and University publicists to justify Notre Dame’s defiance of the nation’s bishops and of Catholic teaching.
READ MORE |
|
 |
|
If Einstein Had Been a Surfer
A Surfer, a Scientist, and a
Philosopher Discuss a “Universal
Wave Theory” or “Theory of
Everything”
Peter Kreeft
This lively trialog, full of irony, intellectual surprise, and humor, is a serious call for a post-medieval synthesis. It does not claim to have arrived anywhere near the end of a journey to a “Theory of Everything,” only to have begun it.
READ MORE
|
|
|
|
 |
|
The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis and
Don Giovanni Calabria
In September 1947, after reading C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters in Italian, Fr. Giovanni Calabria was moved to write the author, but he knew no English and assumed (rightly) that Lewis knew no Italian. So he wrote his letter in Latin, hoping that, as a classicist, Lewis would know Latin. Therein began a correspondence that was to outlive Fr. Calabria himself.
READ MORE |
|
 |
|
The Silence of Goethe
Josef Pieper
This listening silence is much deeper than the mere refraining from words and speech in human intercourse. It means a stillness, which, like a breath, has penetrated into the inmost chamber of one’s own soul. It is meant, in the Goethean “maxim,” to “deny myself as much as possible and to take up the object into myself as purely as it is possible to do.” . . .
READ MORE
|
|