Journalism is meaningful only when it helps us to learn the truth. It can be a genuine calling only when there is a truth that is good. Then it is right and necessary to help this truth to find its proper expression. The fundamental certainty that Good does exist and that we are created...
Dr. James Hitchcock | July 23, 2007 “It doesn’t make one iota’s difference.” Possibly that saying has become obsolete, but for a long time it was used to dismiss something as trivial and unimportant. In its origins, however, it was anything but. It actually tore the Church apart. For 200 years — roughly 300...
There is no such thing as a purely objective news report. Even photography, in which the possibility of pure objectivity was apparently found in the exclusion of every trace of a representational subject, contains a modicum of interpretation even if we leave out of consideration the manifold opportunitites it offers for manipulation. It is...
Introduction to The Meaning of Tradition by Yves Congar, O.P.The following story was told to me by an Anglican friend. He was a member of the delegation sent to Moscow in August 1956 to establish theological relations between the Anglican and Orthodox Churches. During the discussion the question of tradition and its relationship with...
“Let us make mankind in our own image, according to our likeness” (Gen 1:26). God wills the existence of human beings. Like everything else in the universe, they exist, not by mere chance or by a mere act or by mere power, but by a word that is love, truth, and meaning. God has...
It is important that you choose your career with care, so that you may really follow the vocation that God has destined for you. No day should pass without some prayer to this end. Often repeat with St. Paul: “Lord, what will you have me do?” – St. John Bosco
