Requiem Memorial Mass for Paul Joseph Sweeney, Feb. 11, 2 pm
On February 11 at 2 pm, Fr. Chris Wyvil OSB will celebrate a memorial Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of our dear friend and fellow student and […]...
New Seminar: reading Stratford Caldecott’s Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment
Message from David Alexander: Our next book selection is Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Stratford Caldecott. I want to suggest everyone procure their copy and we meet […]...
Pierre Manent’s Beyond Radical Secularism, updated notes
Pierre Manent’s Beyond Secular Radicalism Preface Manent begins with a reflection on the political formation of modern France. Many of his reflections apply more broadly to Europe, and […]...
Knowledge of Christ seminar, message from Sam Pell
It was great to meet you all a few weeks ago and discuss St. Thomas Aquinas. We will continue our study this month with a discussion of Lonergan’s appropriation and […]...
Paul Joseph Sweeney, obituary
As published in The Hour: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thehour/obituary.aspx?n=Paul-Joseph-Sweeney&pid=183026409 Paul Joseph Sweeney, 63, died on the evening of December 4, 2016, after a courageous three-year fight against cancer. Born on March 15, 1953, in […]...
Paul Sweeney, Requiescat in Pace
Please know, dear friends, that our friend and fellow reader and student, Paul Sweeney, age 63, has died, last Sunday evening at about 7:30 at the end of a long […]...
Judgment in Aristotle, two natures
As a qualification on how we are to understand judgment in Aristotle, please note that, in the kind of analysis which we find in Aristotle and also in the manner […]...
Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, 1a, q. 84, Notes
Notes on Aquinas, Summa Theologiae 1a, q. 84 ST 1.84: How does the human intellect know bodies (which are beneath it) ST 1.84.1 Does the soul know bodies through the […]...
New Manent Seminar: Beyond Radical Secularism
Message from David Alexander: I would like to propose that we read Beyond Radical Secularism by Pierre Manent and do so on the following schedule: 26OCT- parts 1-5, to pg. […]...
Greek Discovery of Mind, Socrates, notes
Socrates The intrusion of the systematic exigence into the realm of common sense is beautifully illustrated by Plato’s early dialogues. Socrates would ask for the definition of this or that […]...