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Four Score and Seven Years: On the discovery of time

In the spring, I was jolted into change. Because that was when I embarked upon the discovery of time.

Seeing Slant in the Company of Others

The poet, the teacher, and the student together form a chain of transmission in which what is handed down is a way of being in the world.

Humanitas: Mundane, Magnificent, and Wanting More

Leo calls us to find meaning in the mundane aspects of human life and care. In doing so, he articulates the centrality of limits in the human experience.

Building Bulwarks against Dehumanization

It may be time for willing churches to begin devoting more resources to the active pursuit of remaining human.

The Humane Localism of Pope Leo XIV

Both global solidarity and local subsidiarity are needed if we are to address the emerging technology of so-called AI in sane and humane ways.

A Much-Needed Reaction to The Dark Enlightenment

This desire to reduce liberalism to economic liberalism is taken to its extreme in the dark enlightenment.

Subsidiarity: A New Intellectual Virtue?

Responsibilities—actions, decisions, discussions—should be exercised at the level closest to the individual and only move “upward” if necessary.

Magnifica Humanitas and a Healthy Realism

Magnifica Humanitas encourages us to not give up on changing the world

A Brief Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching

At the heart of CST is the title of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical: magnificent humanity

Dessert with Darlene: The Hospitality of Widows and the Making of Membership

Throughout the epistles, the apostles in both word and deed prioritize the care of widows and summarize it as "true religion."

Why AI Will Not Replace Human Love

“Relationships” between human beings and machines are not real relationships because machines cannot relate to the experience of living a human life.

Want to Find Yourself? Volunteer In Your Church’s Nursery

To gaze into the eyes of a helpless baby was to see my actual condition as a creature laid bare.
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