After the trip to Poland, I met a friend in Geneva. I haven’t done any serious biking/packing since I was about 17 years old. That changed this summer.Geneva is a boring city by the way, don’t go out of your
The John Paul II Forum at my university organizes an annual trip to Poland for undergraduates, and this year I was asked to help organize it.
We are visiting the following places, with the hope of learning and teaching more
Of three stages to the PhD, two are down for the count. The dissertation remains.
This past semester I participated in the annual AMA meeting which was held in Philadelphia, PA.
The theme of the conference was “Thomism and Science.” In my paper, I explained why Thomas supports Aristotle claim that only one substantial form
Two years ago I posted that I would be leaving Chicago for Houston to attend this program. Now the broader university to which it belongs wants to close North America’s only center for Thomistic studies, basically because it wants to spend
Since 2004, the University of Fribourg has been offering a “philosophical retreat for executive staff” to some 15 candidates, aged between 40 and 50. “Before they came here, a lot of participants had had ‘toolbox training’ and were satisfied, but
On November 3-6, 2016 I delivered a paper in San Francisco again on the topic of custom. This was for the American Catholic Philosophical Association meeting on the topic of justice.
The highlight for me was to hear Father James
What you see in the photo above and below is the Pantheon, originally the church of St. Genevieve, the patroness of Paris. In the French Revolution, it was gutted and made into a temple of Reason, that is, a symbol of
Its been nearly four weeks since arriving in Houston and I consider myself ‘settled in’ as you might say. That’s me in the chair…
Well maybe not that settled in but I took the picture at your local watering hole.
Let’s
Having lived in Chicago for four years now, I can honestly say after all the bars and beaches, festivals and forest preserves, ethnic cuisine and enthusiastic government workers that my favorite place is Saint John Cantius Church.
I heard about