The ultimate question, of whether or not modern technology ought to be embraced, depends ultimately upon what kind of values it instills within society.
Most people for most of history understood that the purpose of educating a child was to produce a wise and virtuous adult. And just as an acorn is made to become an oak tree, so a child is made to become an adult, designed for family and friendship and community and hard work and, ultimately, heaven.
Pilgrims to Rome on their tours of the great papal basilicas invariably find their way to Santa Maria Maggiore, which in the Borghese chapel houses
The liberal arts, traditionally grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and music, are the intellectual skills that allow one to carefully observe, record, discuss, and respond to questions about what reality reveals to us. But how can we then say that these arts are freeing?
The importance of ritual for man is part of what he is. Man is not only homo sapiens or homo politicus, but he is also homo ritualis. Rites are a part of every man’s life because being ritualistic is an intrinsic characteristic of man.
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Newman’s Idea of a University stands as one of the greatest works on the nature of education. It arose from his efforts to found a Catholic
The Republic is the most complete attempt by Plato to articulate and answer the question, “What is the best way of life for a human being?” It is
Dr. Amir Sabzevary has spent the last thirty years teaching philosophy and religion. Today, he joins John to talk about the journey of both teaching
This week on the Magnus Podcast, John and Larissa talk moral theology with high school teacher, Rocky Brittain and attempt to answer difficult moral questions
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