Moral Courage
Which one of us would fail to respond enthusiastically to the courage of heroes, who in moments of grave danger, risk their lives to...
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Pleasure and the Saint
Ambiguity is the cause of many philosophical errors. One clear example is Aristotle’s claim that all things desire the good. Apart from...
Willful Blindness
One of the episodes in the Gospel that has always moved me particularly is the story of the blind man of Jericho: upon hearing that Christ..
Flaws in Our Icons
In every society there are icons: some people who because of their talents, their personality, or their successes have become role models...
Long Live Bareness
The trial Jewish women dreaded most was barrenness. To be unable to conceive was considered not only tragic but also shameful. Let us...
Human Demotion, Supernatural Promotion
Deeply grieved by the death of a great and most lovable spiritual leader, Father Benedict Groeschel, we should not forget that he has not...
In Defense of Feeling
Anyone acquainted with the history of philosophy knows that many of the great thinkers have looked down upon feelings. Fleeting...
Joseph's Tears
The one character in the Old Testament that stands out as an unmistakable figure of Christ is Joseph, Jacob's son by his beloved Rachel...
Recalling a Hero
How easily do we forget! How easily heroes, who should be our role models for today, are classified in historical documents, which we file..
The Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, Part II
Pierre Macq, Rector of the Catholic University of Louvain (CUL), claims that the University is not in conflict with the Catholic Church...
The War on Symbolism
According to Plato, "Any change except to eliminate an evil, is an evil." It is easy to caricature this assertion and label Plato a...
Tranquility or the Cross: The Dangerous Appeal of Buddhism
Innumerable men long to escape the waves of meaningless violence, and to some, Buddhism seems to offer a solution. It is associated with...
We Will Be Judged by our Ability to Accept Defeat
I wonder whether former President Bill Clinton has ever given a speech without mentioning “the American Dream.” The dream to which...
The Secular War on the Supernatural
In 1965 my husband Dietrich von Hildebrand and I had a private audience with Pope Paul VI, in which my husband "shot from the hip" as...
Two Souls One Flesh: The Divine Invention of Man and Marriage is a Prodigious Mystery
When at the age of eleven, I took a course on seventeenth-century French literature—French is my beautiful mother tongue—I made the...
The Tears of the World "Lacrimae rerum" - Virgil, Aeneid
Recognizing how we hurt other people can be the first step in becoming more charitable to our neighbor. One of the sad facts of human...
The Blessings of Old Age
We know neither the day nor the hour. In our sick and violent society, in spite of the laws of statistics, no young person has any...
Suffering, A Crushing Burden: Allowing the Burden to Sanctify and Not Destroy Us
If there is one thing we all dread, it is suffering. A newborn baby will already respond with screams to any discomfort...
Mary, Queen of Widows
Mary is the gem of God’s creation. For God made great things in her ("quia fecit in me magna qui potens est"). She has been honored as...
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