Ecology in Light of Integral Human Development

By |2023-07-30T21:45:26-05:00July 30th, 2023|Categories: Caritas in Veritate, Catholicism, Communio, Conservation, David L. Schindler, Environmentalism, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Romano Guardini, St. John Paul II, Timeless Essays|

Every being is good because it is created. To be created is to be loved into existence by God. Every creature is thus good in itself, both because it is loved by God and because, as a participant in this love of God for it, each creature also loves itself. Because all creatures share in [...]

True Love: Passionate Reason versus Romantic Feeling

By |2019-09-28T09:49:44-05:00February 13th, 2019|Categories: Caritas in Veritate, Christian Living, Christianity, Community, Compassion, Heroism, Joseph Pearce, Love, Senior Contributors, StAR, Wisdom|

Oh, love to some is like a cloud, To some as strong as steel, For some a way of living, For some a way to feel, And some say love is holding on And some say letting go, And some say love is everything And some say they don’t know.   John Denver (Perhaps Love) [...]

The Three Kinds of Hope: The Radiance of Being

By |2019-07-13T08:12:38-05:00May 5th, 2013|Categories: Books, Caritas in Veritate, Christianity, Communio, Featured, Pope Benedict XVI, Stratford Caldecott|Tags: , , |

The Radiance of Being: Dimensions of Cosmic Christianity (Angelico Press, 2013) Probably the majority in the environmental movement do not see the relevance of mysticism, or personal virtue and morality, to the great issues of our day. To them it is merely a technological or political challenge. They will try to get their hands on the [...]

The Religion of Money

By |2019-01-08T02:07:05-06:00March 26th, 2012|Categories: Caritas in Veritate, Christianity, Communio, Economics, Featured, Political Economy, Stratford Caldecott|

Modern society is based on the idea of economic growth, a continually expanding cycle of expectation (which supplies the motivation to drive the economy forward), trade leading to income, income leading to consumption and investment. This expansion is made possible by improvements in technology making possible cheaper production (machines replacing slaves and eventually workers) and [...]

Charity in Truth and The Rise of the Machines

By |2016-02-14T16:01:09-06:00March 15th, 2012|Categories: Caritas in Veritate, Communio, Economics, Political Economy, Stratford Caldecott, Technology|

We seem to be haunted by the fear of our machinery and what it is doing to us, or what might happen when it goes wrong. According to landmarks of popular culture such as the Terminator and Matrix movies and Battlestar Galactica, sooner or later the machines will turn upon us. They will use us [...]

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