In September, the Catholic University community gathered for our annual Mass of the Holy Spirit to mark the start of the new academic year. I prayed for my students and my colleagues – and I hope that they prayed for me. This year, a rare chalice from 15th century Ireland was used in our celebration […]
Michael Gorman School of Philosophy, CUA Few of us like to admit to being wrong. We drag our feet before doing so. Sometimes we don’t do it at all, but instead cling to whatever foolish thing we have thought or said. Why hang on to error? Why be wrong when we don’t need to be? […]
By Lucia A. Silecchia “Navigating home,” she said in that assertive, mechanical voice of a well-used GPS system. She calculated the way that would route the car homeward, chiming in from time to time to offer directions and guidance on the way back home. There is something oddly comforting in both her utter confidence and in […]
By IHE Fellow Angela Knobel “We suffer because of our dependence on others. And we must choose this suffering. Much of life is an attempt to distinguish between those sufferings that we ought to try to weed out of the soil of our lives and those sufferings that are seeds that might bear fruit. By […]
This past month, William Saunders, Director of the M.A. in Human Rights Program, taught at the Free Society Seminar. The seminar was founded in 2001 by Catholic intellectual Michael Novak with the aim of creating a dialogue with students in countries formerly in the Soviet Union about the various political, economic, and moral-cultural elements essential […]
By Lucia A. Silecchia Martha, Martha, Martha. I have always had a fondness in my heart for St. Martha. Alas, because she made one complaint recorded in scripture she has been forever remembered as a whiny sister. Yet, I admire her enthusiasm for all the details of hospitality and the hard work she put into […]
By Lucia A. Silecchia June 24, 2022. In the life of a nation – as in the life of each person – days come to face past failings and take steps to correct them. That always begins with an honest admission of prior error. When the Supreme Court did just this in Dobbs v. Jackson […]
By IHE Fellow Kevin Kambo To speak of human dignity today is a fraught task because we inhabit a pluralist culture with competing cosmological visions. Dignity is a central theme of John Paul II’s magisterial teaching, grounded in his view of man as made in the image and likeness of God; for sympathetic but theism-shy […]
By IHE Fellow Lucia A. Silecchia Do your summer plans include planting a garden? To my mind, gardening is one of most hopeful acts of joy, and joyful acts of hope that I have seen. I lack the patience to be a gardener. But, my grandfather was a gardener – the most enthusiastic one I […]
IHE Fellow Michael Pakaluk wrote an article in The Catholic Thing entitled “Three Mistakes about the Common Good.” Read more here.
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