2015-07-17T13:26:23-07:00

Last updated on: July 17, 2015 at 1:26 pm   By

Keith Michael Estrada is the founder of Students for a Fair Society at Franciscan University of Steubenville and is a member of the International Observatory of Young Catholics (Rome). Finishing his MA in philosophy at the aforementioned institution, he writes from Seattle-land, Washington. He can be reached at keithmichaelestrada.com. This is a guest post. ====================== Back to Europe. A third model was added to the two models of the 19th century: socialism. Socialism took two main paths — the democratic... Read more

2015-07-14T16:15:47-07:00

Last updated on: July 14, 2015 at 4:15 pm   By

Facebook blocked me from promoting my St. Paul talking shit piece yesterday because they think biblical religion is too vulgar. I thought I’d take it down a notch today with a post on theology and genitalia. There are breakthrough moments on two hour commutes home where you either find something that either keeps you from attempting a nap behind the wheel, or, otherwise you don’t end up writing blog entries. I’ve been listening to a four part series given by... Read more

2015-07-13T00:48:57-07:00

Last updated on: July 13, 2015 at 12:48 am   By

Pope Francis has been talking crap about capitalism again. According to The Guardian, the pontiff reached for some pungent words, reminiscent of what Keith Michael Estrada wrote in his guest post several weeks ago: In one of the longest, most passionate and sweeping speeches of his pontificate, the Argentine-born pope used his visit to Bolivia to ask forgiveness for the sins committed by the Roman Catholic church in its treatment of native Americans during what he called the “so-called conquest... Read more

2015-07-12T19:20:01-07:00

Last updated on: July 12, 2015 at 7:20 pm   By

Maybe it doesn’t show from this blog, given how many TOP10 lists I’ve written, that I didn’t really start reading until my junior year in high school. Reading T.S. Eliot’s poetry, Dante, and A Canticle for Liebowitz is probably what did it in the end. Once you start on those books there’s no going back. I suppose I’ve always been playing catchup ever since. As in other areas of life I don’t seem to ever catch up. And so it... Read more

2015-07-09T13:20:06-07:00

Last updated on: July 9, 2015 at 1:20 pm   By

You, no doubt, have heard it said (totally out of context) by Chesterton: Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists. But he also said in “Three Foes of the Family” (442-445): It cannot be too often repeated that what destroyed the Family in the modern world was Capitalism. No doubt it might have been Communism, if Communism had ever had a chance, outside that semi-Mongolian wilderness where it actually flourishes. But, so far as... Read more

2015-07-08T11:35:09-07:00

Last updated on: July 8, 2015 at 11:35 am   By

I found the weirdest piece of news on my day off from my new temp job. It’s ridiculous enough to write a post on it: A re-established and self declared Israeli Sanhedrin, the religious High Court composed of 71 sages, has declared that it is putting Pope Francis on trial unless he retracts his statement that the Jews have no right to the land of Israel or to Jerusalem. In February 2013, the Vatican officially recognized the “State of Palestine”... Read more

2015-07-04T13:27:14-07:00

Last updated on: July 4, 2015 at 1:27 pm   By

Independence Day is the quintessential holiday for lovers of liberty. But what if negative liberty is not really your thing? Some time ago reading atheist  Julia Kristeva on John Paul II got me thinking about an alternative holiday: Dependence Day. Then Holly Taylor Coolman’s reading of the treasury of merit reminded me of it. And so, if you’re Catholic, and you feel like the news cycle has really kicked your butt, consider reading the following posts for ideas on celebrating... Read more

2015-07-03T19:08:40-07:00

Last updated on: July 3, 2015 at 7:08 pm   By

Kevin L. Hughes is Chair of the Humanities Department at Villanova University. He is the author of Constructing Antichrist: Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages and Church History: Faith Handed On, along with articles appearing in journals such as Modern Theology, Theological Studies, Franciscan Studies, and the Heythrop Journal. His recent work on Henri de Lubac will appear in Reading Scripture as a Political Act and the T&T Clark Companion to Henri de... Read more

2015-07-02T13:29:28-07:00

Last updated on: July 2, 2015 at 1:29 pm   By

Savage Memory is an equally disturbing and humanizing documentary portrait of Bronislaw Malinowski, the Polish pioneer of modern anthropology. You might know Malinowski from used bookstore blushing perusals of titillating titles such as The Sexual Life of Savages and Magic, Science, and Religion. They are the intellectual’s equivalent of looking at dirty mags at the gas station–not that intellectuals aren’t ever caught doing the latter. The documentary, directed by Malinowski’s grandson, mainly focuses upon the family fallout of the Great... Read more

2015-07-02T01:09:36-07:00

Last updated on: July 2, 2015 at 1:09 am   By

Jean-François Garneau is a management consultant and an adjunct professor of management at the École des Sciences de la Gestion of the University of Quebec in Montreal. A Rhodes Scholar, Jean-François has held various executive positions within the Transportation Group of Canadian multinational Bombardier Inc. Prior to his involvement with Bombardier Inc., Jean-François was an adjunct professor of Management and Organizational Theory at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Montreal as well as the École Nationale d’Administration Publique of... Read more

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