Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. The quote is from the entry for August 20 in The Wisdom of Fulton Sheen: 365 Days of Inspiration, copyright 2021, published by Blue Sparrow, …continue reading
From a collection of quotes by Catholic Archbishop Fulton Sheen, then entry for August 7: The new atheism is not of the intellect, but of the will; it is an act of free and eager rejection of morality and its demands. It starts with the affirmation of self and the …continue reading
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was the highly popular face of American Catholicism for decades in the Twentieth Century. A cause for sainthood for Archbishop Sheen is currently active with the Vatican. In these highly polarized times, I have found Sheen to be calm, forthright, unstinting in defense of the Catholic …continue reading
On Thursday, August 19, 2020, detectives arrested a male adult suspect who is believed to have been involved in several incidents of indecent exposure and lewd acts with minors. On May 10, 2020, a social media post of an exposure incident was reported to detectives who immediately began investigating the …continue reading
The holy season of Lent leads Christians to relive the experience of the first disciples, puzzling over the sayings and actions of Jesus of Nazareth, asking questions, scratching their heads, gradually accepting alongside those disciples that he was more than merely human. Then the Romans killed him. Despite warnings from …continue reading
I suspect, with Professor Allan Bloom, that Plato wrote in The Republic to teach us what “pure justice” might be like in practice, with certain extraordinary consequences in family, property, and state, so that we would not in fact choose it in this life if we could avoid it. — …continue reading