February 11, 2010
Dear Mr. President,
I am a nineteen-year-old citizen who is imploring you to note an issue that is holding back this great nation from reaching our fullest potential. I can’t tell you how glad I am to hear you say that you look at man-made climate change with scientific consideration. With scientific backing, one [...]
I recently came across John Cornwall’s Hitler’s Pope, published in 1999 by Viking Press. Just reading the Prologue and the first chapter was enough to convince me that this was not the type of solid research I was looking for. Not only was the author’s bias obvious, but his facts were more than dubious. In [...]
Our third level of education is the human or liberal — the training of man as man (how to think, how to act, and how to express oneself eloquently with both tongue and pen). A liberal education presupposes the earlier levels. If you can’t stay alive, you won’t be able to train your intellect. [...]
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Posted 07 December 2009
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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Our Lord Himself is the Educator par excellence and in the Great Commission, which was His last directions to the apostles before His ascension, He gave His Mystical Body a teaching mission: “Going, therefore, teach ye all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. [...]
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Posted 07 December 2009
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Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Powers of Life as They Transcend the Material: The Acquisition of Wisdom and the Transmission of Culture
by Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
[This talk was given at the 2009 SBC Conference, October 31, 2009. It was very well received (with a standing ovation). What is posted here are my notes from [...]
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Posted 06 December 2009
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Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued]
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926)
On the Christian Training of Children
Chapter XIII. – How a Christian Mother Should Prepare Her Child for Confession.
The sincere confession of sins and faults in union with a sincere sorrow for [...]
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Posted 06 December 2009
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Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued]
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926)
On the Christian Training of Children
Chapter VI. – How the Christian Mother Should Combat Pride in Her Child.
In the last two chapters I have briefly pointed out how a Christian Mother may successfully [...]
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Posted 19 March 2009
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MATHEMATICS AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION (part two of two)
by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
Now in an attempt to determine the influence of mathematics on the mind of a Christian, it would be folly to ignore the fact that after twenty centuries of Christian living, it is impossible to name one single patron saint for mathematics. There are [...]
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Posted 19 December 2008
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by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
Plato and Liberal Education
III. The Epochs in Plato’s Educational System
The key for Plato’s system of education is the Greek word μουσικε (sounds like “musikay”) which has survived in our modern languages in such words as “music” and “museum”. To the Greeks the term had a wider signification, including within its comprehension [...]
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Posted 03 December 2008
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by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
Plato and Liberal Education
II. What is Liberal Education?
We are used to distinguishing between two kinds of education: liberal and vocational. But Plato, while recognizing the need of developing the practical arts and professions, reserved the term “education”, at least in its absolute unrestricted sense, to what we would call liberal education. [...]
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Posted 02 December 2008
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