What is it about nature that is so appealing to some people and unattractive to others? Aristotle’s distinction between art (anything created by man from poetry to technology), and nature is useful here. Art (techne in Greek – the origin of
In a recent interview the President of Catholic University of America, John Garvy stated that “At Catholic universities there isn’t a rule that you can’t talk about God or faith or those kinds of subjects alongside whatever you’re doing in your
At Thanksgiving, we are fortunate enough to celebrate in the United States by eating lots of food…good food. We remind ourselves of what we really have by bringing it all out…not just food, but family and friends. But there is
This article on Francis endorsing evolution is getting tossed around everywhere like its another cave-in at Rome.
My favorite part is how the secular media (a bunch of communication majors) confidently comments on a topic, apparently without looking at existing Church commentary beyond
This weekend I attended a conference given by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on the Sacred Liturgy at my home parish, St. John Cantius. I have been visiting his blog off and on for a number of years and find his contributions
Religious practice continues to decline in the West, but why, and what does that have to do with the photo I just clicked on?
The typical educated person in the same society would explain this as Auguste Comte did: Man is moving
Because of my other website, many of you good people are friending me on Facebook who I’ve never met, but who want to know more about me. I’m fine with sharing…but, no offense, I don’t want to share personal items
I found the following letter, though dense, quite relevant.
From a letter to his son Michael Tolkien 6-8 March 1941
A man’s dealings with women can be purely physical (they cannot really, of course: but
Have you ever felt like you have so many choices to review that there’s no way you can ever choose and now you are paralyzed? Well you’re in luck, here at CatholiConnection we’ve developed a few different methods for eliminating
It’s becoming popular to recognize and ‘tweet’ about what wisdom would have told us 3000 years ago, 60 years ago and today. Technology’s connecting us to others – texting, Facebook, email – doesn’t necessarily fulfill our need for community. In fact, technology