“Faith in the dignity of the human personality, in brotherly love, in justice, and in the worth of the human soul, outweighing the whole material universe – faith, in a word, in the conception of man and his destiny which the gospel has deposited at the very center of human history – this faith isContinue reading “Maritain on faith and the democratic ideal”
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Grace in a graceless season: prayer, votes, and the real goal
Spare a moment and a prayer for the political types, please and thank you. I’m one of them. Public policy is part of my vocation. Times like these, I’m tempted to wish it were otherwise. This is a plague-on-both-your-houses time. Something C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity captures my attitude. I feel a strong desireContinue reading “Grace in a graceless season: prayer, votes, and the real goal”
The risk of being more like Mother Teresa
I saw the statue of Mother Teresa during a visit to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. earlier this year. A pleasing and apt tribute, but a little unsatisfying, and it took me a minute to figure out why: the image is fixed and still, while its subject was so oftenContinue reading “The risk of being more like Mother Teresa”
Ellen Kolb 