Luceat!

I’m glad we’ve had rather spirited discussion of late — kudos, all. I’ll offer here some scattered musings which I hope shed at least a bit more light on the topics at hand.
I’ve found that conversations about gender (even in circles composed of presumably like-minded individuals) so often go astray, diverted almost immediately into […]

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One idea I hinted at in my last post is the reasonableness of taking what we are as given, implying that there are certain fundamental aspects of being human which, generally speaking, we can’t not know (or at least without recognition of which we can’t function properly). On a recent visit to artrenewal.org, I […]

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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be talking a fair bit about sexual difference and sundry related topics. With a theme so all-encompassing in its import, I usually find it worthwhile to lay down some groundwork. Over the course of our reflections, it is my hope each of us will be challenged to […]

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Despite promises made last week, we didn’t post on Monday.  Please accept my sincerest apologies, dear reader.
To make it up to you, I offer the following video:

I know it has nothing to do with our current topic, but it is timely and brief–and it should pique interest about our upcoming conference.  I plan to post […]

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That’s right, we’re overdue for a change of topic. Seeing as discussion has been relatively light of late, we’ve decided to stir the pot a bit more. For the next month or so–of course punctuated by the requisite reflections on important happenings and feast days–we’ll be meditating on the theme Christian Anthropology: Gender, […]

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Well, the more ‘open-minded’ alternatives being pumped into the mushy brains of teens and pre-teens the country over don’t prove much better, according to Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse:
A poor cohabiting teenager using the Pill has a failure rate of 48.4%. You read that correctly: nearly half of poor cohabiting teenagers get pregnant during their first […]

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Just in time for the start of school a couple of weeks ago, Archbishop Chaput (affectionately referred to by my friends as the ‘AbC’) presented a cogent challenge to a popular philosophy of education–”Education alone is not enough.”
While the whole column is worth reading, here’s a rather salient excerpt:
The lesson here is plain. Catholics have […]

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I realize that we’re firmly in the “or so” part of the “day or so” in which I promised my next post (see previous post ‘Vive la France!’). My apologies.
For your consideration, I submit the following thesis–courtesy of one John Zmirak–on one of the major turning points of Gallic history:
If you think French peasants […]

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Can it be? Is there still hope for Europe? I submit the following (and no, this is not a joke):
President of France calls for religion in schools
This has to be the single most encouraging bit of news from across the pond in months. I’m especially glad that Monsieur Sarkozy addressed the root […]

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This month’s theme is education. Hopefully you’ll see a few reflections on the idea of the university, the student vocation, the end toward which education aims, or related topics.
To our student friends on campus: come exam-time, remember you have a friend in St. Joseph of Cupertino.

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