At a recent Sunday Mass, the priest introduced an unfamiliar word: anagoge (pronounced AN-uh-goh-gee). It’s used today to mean a spiritual or allegorical interpretation, usually of Scripture, but he used anagoge in its original Greek sense, “a leading upward.” He then encouraged us to look upward more often, even literally, to the heavens rather than
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Reflecting on the loss of a loved one, C. S. Lewis wrote in a 1960 letter to Peter Bide: “One doesn’t realize in early life that the price of freedom is loneliness. To be happy one must be tied.” In a few short words, Lewis utters one of the central paradoxes of human existence, a contradiction with
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Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, or formal pastoral letter, in May, titled “Magnifica Humanitas.” In this encyclical, he tackles some of the most pressing questions regarding modern social debates, namely, the use of artificial intelligence, providing several prudent warnings for all of us, whether Catholic, Protestant, or not religious at all. AI Is
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While recently visiting my daughter’s house to celebrate the high school graduation of my twin granddaughters, I mentioned Gelett Burgess’ collection of poems for children, “Goops and How to Be Them.” Instantly the two graduates, a couple of their siblings, and my daughter chanted in unison that book’s first poem, “Table Manners.” The Goops they
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The “vibe shift” is real. By “vibe shift,” I mean the shift from American family values to complete cultural degeneracy over the last 30 or so years. At the risk of sounding morose, the recent right-wing victory party over Pride Month is severely misguided. However encouraged we may be at the progress made against corporate
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“But the fountain sprang up and the bird sang down Redeem the time, redeem the dream The token of the word unheard, unspoken” – T. S. Eliot, “Ash Wednesday” In his poem “Ash Wednesday,” T. S. Eliot famously borrows the language of St. Paul in order to image the paradoxes of faith. “For you were once
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