While thinking of the suffering endured by patients in the modern medical quest for miracles, I grew depressed and sought to cheer myself up by thoughts of hospices which allow human beings a bit of dignity as they approach death. And so it was that I turned to Flannery O’Connor’s insightful and Thomistically funny introduction [...]
In recent months, I’ve not posted often to my other blog, To See a World in a Grain of Sand, but I’ve posted an article, A Truer Ecumenical Movement — Who is a Christian?,that may be of some interest to the readers of this blog.
Wisdom is the fumbling substitute for perfect knowledge. [The American Story by Garet Garret, Henry Regnery Company, 1955 and made available as a pdf file on lewrockwell.com through the generosity of Lew Rockwell and his associates.] Ahhh, but what does it mean to know? In the old testament, “to know your wife” meant “to have [...]
Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. [1 John 3:2, RSV, Catholic Edition, Ignatius Press] I was struck by this verse when I recently saw it quoted [...]
An astronomer at the Vatican Observatory has said, in a very confused way so far as I can tell, that the question of extraterrestrial life is an empirical question. (See Could ET be Our Brother?). This is old news. In 1277, in what seems to have been a confused encyclopedia of condemnations, Etienne Tempier — [...]
A silly question in a way, but also a serious one. In fact, it’s a question forced upon us by the importance of cosmological physics as popularized by the so-called Big Bang model of cosmological physics. Live in the Big Bang world, die in the Big Bang world. Even be resurrected in a world part [...]