On September 19 James Matthew Wilson will speak in the Faustina Building auditorium! Here’s a quick article to get your thoughts and questions percolating for that discussion!
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I dare Catholic teachers to find a way to work spousal union into their next science, art, philosophy, or history class!
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If all the problems around us are opportunities to practice a Catholic approach to the world’s needs, then what are the characteristics of that Catholic way?
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Pope John Paul II once said we could know him best by studying his plays. His understanding of the role of drama, of the spoken word, in proposing truth to the world is at the core of all his writings about human freedom and human destiny. His Rhapsodic Theatre was a form of cultural resistance to the Nazi suppression of national identity.
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If I could make one book required reading for Catholic parents and educators, it is Stratford Caldecott’s Beauty for Truth’s Sake. In six succinct chapters, he leads readers from the history of education’s disintegration to a vision for its restoration and ‘re-enchantment’.
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Letter-writing is a dance that accommodates two paces that may be quite different, yet generates a rhythm of its own. Correspondence, if you can bear it, is a delightful and demanding game, played over time and space between persons who recognize that they cohere somewhere beyond time and space – a game for supernatural giants,
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Wiker does a great job of placing polarized, knee-jerk, talking point positions in the same space - refusing to be drawn into the poles. As a Catholic should, he looks for the via media - not a compromise, but a higher place where the tension between irreconcilables is resolved. His book is challenging, because it invites us to do the same as we develop our thoughts about the place of the human being in the natural order.
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