Francis X. Maier
Our Hunger for the Right Things
The historian Henry Adams once described politics as “the systematic organization of hatreds,” and that’s often where we seem to be in these last days before our nation’s 250th birthday. As a Wall Street Journal column noted earlier this week,…
A Brief Note on Consequences
On a cool October evening some years back, a young woman – let’s call her Jenny, age 18 – checked into St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica and gave birth to a baby boy. Her friends had urged her to have an abortion. So did her boyfriend, Jack,…
A Little Wisdom from Toonces
Most of us live at least part of our lives on autopilot. Most of us also, sooner or later, stumble across Albert Einstein’s famous warning: “Doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting different results, is the definition of…
A Note on ‘Roma Aeterna’
Rome, if not quite the “Eternal City,” is nearly 2,800 years old and counting. I first encountered it in the 1970s, visiting my wife’s uncle, a priest who served in the Congregation (now the Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith. What I…