Recently, I read an author’s claim that “as Christians we can’t simply ignore politics. We’re supposed to be leaven in the world. So we can’t just retreat to the hills as St. Benedict did.” Actually, people nowadays do “retreat to the hills”…
A long drive recently allowed me to listen to the unabridged audiobook of Homer’s Odyssey. It was worth all 780+ minutes. Hearing the poem helped me understand why it is foundational to the Western understanding of human life, and how archetypal…
Much is already being written at the moment about AI and the suitable Catholic response to it. So this column will not be about AI. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov has been driven, by his revulsion to evil in…
The new month brings a trifecta on my ecclesiastical calendar: a full moon, First Friday, and the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. My calendar’s tracking of astronomical events is a holdover from long ago, when the Church had its own astrology.…
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