Reading suggestions from scholars—some long, some short…
Higher Education
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What Thomas Aquinas can teach students about happiness (and theology)
When it comes to how they spend their free time, why they study and what they envision for their life beyond the classroom, students are trying to pursue happiness. Too often, however, this wrestling does not go far enough.
Posted inColumns, Faith
Freedom in Discipline: Vince Lombardi
While the Super Bowl is a distant memory (in the age of day-trading, instant e-mails and online newspapers, anything that took place more than a month ago is a distant memory), it is by no means too late to talk about a book and a man intimately connected to championship football games.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
John Tracy Ellis and Catholic Intellectual Life: From June 3, 1995
In These Pages: From June 3, 1995
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
Theodore Hesburgh on what Cardinal Newman missed about Catholic universities
Let us not chide Cardinal Newman for writing in the middle of the 19th century instead of the middle of the 20th. But also let us not assume that what he had to say then had absolute and unconditioned validity for all such institutions in all times.