Viktor Frankl and Man’s Search for Meaning.
In 1942, Nazi guards stripped a psychiatrist of everything—his coat, his name, his life’s work—but they accidentally gave him the one discovery that would change millions of lives. The guards at the concentration camp intake made a calculation. They shaved the 37-year-old man’s head. They tattooed a number on his skin: 119,104. Then they found […]
Men of Good Will: Unite!
(Excerpt from “Call to Unity”A radio address delivered on 02 Jan 44 , by Fulton J. Sheen} Men of good will: Unite! The principles which once were taken for granted, because beyond legal controversy or human manipulations, are today challenged. When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he stated it was “self-evident” that man […]
George Washington’s Letter to Newport
Washington promises no sanction to bigotry, and no assistance to persecution. By Michael Feldberg George Washington’s Letter to NewportWashington promises no sanction to bigotry, and no assistance to persecution. By Michael Feldberg On August 17, 1790, Moses Seixas, the warden of Congregation Kahal Kadosh Yeshuat Israel, better known as the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, […]
Perfect Fear Casts Out All “Luv”
PETER KREEFT Have you ever noticed the amazing fact that most modern “religious educators” try to remove the very thing the Bible calls “the beginning of wisdom”? I mean, of course, fear — “the fear of the Lord.” An army of modern psychologists is on the side of the educators rather than on the side […]
Love is Not Tolerance
BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN Christian love bears evil, but it does not tolerate it. It does penance for the sins of others, but it is not broadminded about sin. The cry for tolerance never induces it to quench its hatred of the evil philosophiesthat have entered into contest with the Truth. It forgives the sinner, […]
Joy
PETER KREEFT Joy is more than happiness, just as happiness is more than pleasure. Pleasure is in the body. Happiness is in the mind and feelings. Joy is deep in the heart, the spirit, the center of the self. The way to pleasure is power and prudence. The way to happiness is moral goodness. The […]
Hope
PETER KREEFT We creatures of time are constantly moving into the future, and our eyes are usually facing forward. Hope is like headlights. It is not easy to drive without headlights in the dark. A revitalization of the forgotten theological virtue of hope would go far toward healing the tensions in the Church between liberals […]
Darkness at Noon: The Eclipse of the Permanent Things
PETER KREEFT We all know what Christianity looks like when viewed from the standpoint of modernity. In this essay I shall try to turn the truth tables and see what modernity looks like when viewed from the standpoint of Christianity. My point of view is what C. S. Lewis called “mere Christianity.” “Mere Christianity” means […]
Come on a Guilt Trip With Us
MARK LOWERY Too Much? Too Little? What’s the right amount of guilt? I’ve been poring through the Holy Father’s encyclical Veritatis Splendor and came upon a line that stumps me. In criticizing the “Fundamental Option” theory, he says, “But from a consideration of the psychological sphere one cannot proceed to create a theological category . […]
Can we be sure of anything?
CHARLES E. RICE “We cannot be sure of anything!” “Are you sure of that?” “Of course I’m sure!” This dialogue is not wholly imaginary. If you asked the average high school student, Catholic or otherwise, whether, apart from mere sense impressions, he could know anything with certainty, he would answer that he could not. Nor […]