Like O'Connor (and despite the fact that he grew up in a time of saccharine devotional piety), Paul Horgan knew that there is nothing less sentimental than Catholicism, because Catholicism is realism. And he knew the reason why Catholicism is realism: because it is through the Incarnation, a real event at a real time in a real place, that God's unsentimental, cleansing, and all-powerful love is decisively revealed — the divine mercy that is, according to the parable of the Prodigal Son, the defining characteristic of God's interaction with the world.… A God That Grounds All Things.
I share Hart's reservations regarding the idea of God implied in Intelligent Design theory.
… Who knew? Socrates Rises with Christ.
The argument about the immortality of the soul arose from political grounds. It was the experience of the city unable to deal with justice that led Plato initially to despair about justice in the universe itself. Out of the trial of Socrates, we find a young man whose whole life became absorbed in justifying the goodness of human existence itself. This is the philosophical experience that must be explained.(Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
… Your Own Personal Religion.
You should practice your religion as you practice an art, because it is one.
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