Tag: Francis X. Maier

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…