A Study Of “On The Character of Men And the Virtuous Life”: Part XXXIX.

Last updated on: November 24, 2011 at 2:00 pm By Henry Karlson

Introduction and Part II “The Son is in the Father, and the Spirit is in the Son, and the Father is in both. Through faith man knows all the invisible and intelligible realities. Faith involves a voluntary assent of the soul.”[1] (more…) Read more

Reflections on Population Increase (Part I)

Last updated on: November 23, 2011 at 3:46 pm By David Cruz-Uribe

Some months ago, I wrote a long post on population growth and the problems of over-population. I had intended to revisit this when the Earth’s population passed the 7 billion mark, but my colleague Brett, who also has written on population in the past, beat me to it. (No hard feelings!) I was too busy to comment on his post, but I have been thinking about the question and some of the issues he raised. And this seems an... Read more

My Man Newt?

Last updated on: November 23, 2011 at 2:44 pm By Sam Rocha

I’ve watched the vast majority of the GOP debates during this primary season. I am not a party member, but I do hope to find a major party candidate I can vote for this election cycle. I’m not sure why, but I fear being apathetic in my misfit politics. I am willing to vote for a single issue, so long as it can be actualized in the form of a policy change that has real implications for real people, people... Read more

The Black Iron Prison of the Self

Last updated on: November 23, 2011 at 8:36 am By Henry Karlson

“Where (or when) is (or was) the Black Iron world I was there but am here now. Did that world go out of existence? Did this one replace it? Is this world somehow irreal, maybe stretched like a skin over (and concealing) the other? In which case can the black iron world come back?”[1] One of the things which Philip K Dick sensed through his mystical revelations is that he was, at least at some time, trapped in a world... Read more

To a Companion

Last updated on: November 22, 2011 at 5:54 pm By Matt Talbot

I have walked the mile, and shared the road, with companions fierce and true. I have ridden trains Of freight and mail And realized the blue Of light and dawn and Angels’ aches and written of you, too. I have gone down, falling through sanity’s rail screaming down and dark; and then rose soft in gray-frost morn In People’s Holy Park And seen your face and took the flight with song of morning’s lark. Read more

Strife, Pain Is Love?

Last updated on: November 22, 2011 at 9:03 am By Henry Karlson

It’s amazing how much James-James’ chaotic world resembles Empedocles’ world of strife, and the Corpus Christi resembles the krasis formed by love – which brings me back to Aphrodite. And the krasis possessing one more dimension than James-James’ ‘horizontal’ world [ image of sphere with a plane through it] Is it even possible that ‘strife’ (plane) is ‘love’ (sphere) seen in one less dimension – i.e., imperfectly perceived? Only the sectioning perceived? The ‘spherical’ krasis viewed, in a limited sense,... Read more

Implementation of the New Roman Missal

Last updated on: November 20, 2011 at 3:03 pm By Mark Gordon

Without regard to whether you like or dislike the new Roman Missal, I’m wondering what your parish did in preparation for its implementation beginning next Sunday, the first week of Advent. For the past six weeks, my pastor conducted a comprehensive catechesis on the new missal in place of his Sunday homilies. He not only instructed us in the new wording, both spoken and sung, but used the opportunity to delve deeper into the history and theology of various elements of the... Read more

‘For many’?

Last updated on: November 20, 2011 at 11:16 am By Mark DeFrancisis

“It does not mean that some aren’t invited into salvation. We always understood and continue to understand that while ‘multis’ says many it means ‘all.'” –Cardinal Donald Wuerl Then, with all the potential for confusion over such a central tenet,with such enormous practical and spiritual consequences, why not just simply say ‘all’? Read more

Where is God? An Answer from Philip K Dick

Last updated on: November 20, 2011 at 10:02 am By Henry Karlson

Where is God? Why don’t I sense his presence in my life? These questions are ones which we often face. Even those who have had some tangible experience of God one day might suffer from the apparent lack of contact from God for many days or years afterward. If God is acting in our favor, if God is there and willing to meet with us, why don’t we see it? Philip K Dick, after his own unusual mystical experience in... Read more