By IHE Graduate Fellow Meghan Duke In his question on prayer in the Summa Theologiae,[1] Saint Thomas says that the first thing that is necessary for prayer is that we approach God and that the second is that we make a petition. We can do this, he says, in three ways: First, through an act […]

As both a mother and an academic, the month of May bears a special significance to my vocation. It is, of course, the month in which we celebrate Mother’s Day, but it is also a month devoted to Mary, the Mother of God. Mary was not only a good mother: she can also rightly be […]

By IHE Fellow Lucia A. Silecchia I saw them in the department store — a mother and a little girl about five years old. The child, in her restlessness, sought to wander away during what must have struck her as a very dull way to spend time. Sifting through a clearance rack is not the excitement […]

By IHE Graduate Fellow Ian Tuttle “Winter kept us warm,” wrote T.S. Eliot, “covering / Earth with forgetful snow.” Spring, then, is a time for relearning the world. Was there ever a better student than John Clare? Born in tiny Helpston, Northamptonshire, England, in 1793 to illiterate parents; barely schooled; farm laborer by the age […]