The great privilege and responsibility we have as teachers is getting to love our students—to always will the good of our students and to always value them, especially who they are at the core of their being. We do this first face-to-face on a regular, perhaps daily, basis. We are there in moments of joy,… Read More How Catholic Schools Can Fulfill Their Mission
The following remarks were prepared by Chris Crawford for, “2024 Election Postmortem Panel Discussions, hosted by The Center for Philosophy of Religion at The University of Notre Dame, on December 7th. The topic of this discussion was, “Strategy Session: Planning, Partnerships, and Practical Steps for the Next Four Years”. Crawford is a policy strategist at… Read More The Future of the Fight to Protect Democracy
Samantha Power, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, writes: The Syrian people have endured 14 years of brutal civil war and 24 years under the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, who stayed in power by torturing and killing – including with chemical weapons – any of his people who dared to oppose him.… Read More The End of the Butcher Bashar al-Assad’s Murderous Regime
David Brooks writes: In trying to construct a society that maximized talent, Conant and his peers were governed by the common assumptions of the era: Intelligence, that highest human trait, can be measured by standardized tests and the ability to do well in school from ages 15 to 18. Universities should serve as society’s primary… Read More Reimagining Our Broken Meritocracy
Michael Jordan Laskey writes: My 4-year-old son—rascally, chaotic—is better behaved at church than he is anywhere else…. We have to be sitting as close to the choir as humanly possible. And Mr. John, the bald, bespectacled Boomer who plays the drum set at this Mass, can’t be out sick or on vacation. If all these… Read More How I Learned the True Meaning of ‘Good’ Liturgical Music
via the Berkley Center: October 21-22, 2024 | This conference will commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), with a special focus on the commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Patrick F. Healy Conference on “Freedom and Man.” Held at Georgetown University on December 2, 1964, the conference on… Read More Revisiting “Freedom and Man”
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk by Tom Nichols: “As a private citizen, she can apologize for Assad and Putin to her heart’s content. But as a security risk, Gabbard is a walking Christmas tree of warning lights. If she is nominated to be America’s… Read More Around the Web
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