Incoming Light
Friends and students had asked me to indicate the authors who have had the greatest influence on my life and thinking. I restricted the list to authors of recent times.
First Review of Kelly Anthology (link e tradução portuguesa)
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/bernard-kelly-and-the-vigor-of-lay-thought tradução portuguesa (resenha em inglês publicado no The National Catholic Register, 12 de maio de 2018): Bernard Kelly e o vigor do pensamento leigo Gerald J. Russello A CATHOLIC
What “catholic” should also mean
καθ’ ὅλου — there it is in its original form, dolled up in those adorable Greek letters (romanized it would be kath’olou, meaning something like ‘in a general way’, or ‘according to
The 99% Percent Problem
How often do we hear that over 90% of this, or 95% of that, or even 99% of something else surprisingly dwarfs the remaining percents in the calculation, and that
Images and Symbols
The crucifix is an image; the cross is a symbol. The distinction is not academic. When we compare the imaginative universe of Islam and Hinduism, for example, we find in
Consciousness and/or Conscience?
In most modern Romance languages, the appropriation of the Latin word conscientia was made to do double duty as the word they use both for psychological consciousness and also for
The Difference between Difference and ‘Diversity’
Paradox, anyone? How about this: In order to be different at all, you first have to be the same. But another paradox is even more counterintuitive: those who today preach
Christian Diversity – what does it really mean?
We are accustomed to hearing that the prodigious multiplication of Christian, especially Protestant, denominations – some estimates bring the number close to 30,000 – is evidence that Christians are hopelessly
Choice as Bondage
In the picture you see my father, wondering why his oldest son is taking a snapshot of a supermarket row of breakfast cereals. I’ve seen longer rows than this, but
The Goodness of the Sixth Day
GOOD-FRIDAY, 1613, RIDING WESTWARD. LET man’s soul be a sphere, and then, in this, Th’intelligence that moves, devotion is; And as the other spheres, by being grown Subject to foreign
Moving and changing (mudando-se e mudando)
I have been absent from my own blog for several weeks due to a prolonged illness in February, after which — hardly out of the woods health-wise — I was greeted
On Being Brilliantly Wrong
Though serious Christians may differ on how to characterize an ‘inerrant’ Bible or an ‘infallible’ Magisterium, consensus ought to be forthcoming regarding the errant and fallible character of every other source