Temple University in Philadelphia is the third largest university in Pennsylvania; it enjoys a worldwide reputation for research, scholarship, and education, and has international campuses in Tokyo and Rome, in addition...
On the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear the familiar term Kingdom of Heaven. It must be quite important because we hear it often; but do we clearly know what it refers to? Other similar terms are: the Good News, the Gospel, Jesus Christ, the...
An insightful rabbinic metaphor views the Torah or the teaching that came down from God at Sinai as a giant light that passed into a prism atop the mountain. The light then refracted into several lights, each light...
This essay continues the previous parts discussing my book Changing Attitudes, published in 1998. Part 2 ended by noting that the principal reason for academic deficiency is that mass culture has undermined young...
The soul that journeys to God, but does not shake off its cares and quiet its appetites, is like one who drags a cart uphill. St. John of the Cross (1542-91) It is important that we build spiritual muscle. One of the...
This essay continues the analysis presented in my book Changing Attitudes, published in 1998 and even more relevant in 2025. A recent cartoon showed a blackboard with “A, B, C. D. E. F. G” written on it...
A compassionate, kind-hearted man named Jack was the activities director at an assisted living facility for the elderly. He and the rest of the staff frequently made a special effort to reach out to the patients...
This memorial of the Faithful Departed should be seen as a grace-filled attempt at focusing on the Reality in which we are called to live: the Reality of the Mystical Body. Unfortunately, the commonly used name we give...
A young woman named Mary was just starting out as a high school teacher in the early 1960s. She very much wanted to succeed, but things were quite difficult—mainly because of one particular student: a senior named Bill...
While we can acquire knowledge through books and other educational material, wisdom is more than obtaining knowledge. The more we know, the more we realize how much we do not know. Wisdom can develop from knowledge...
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