“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.”
― Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), “Fides et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason“
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“As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary. He told us to be not only ‘as harmless as doves’, but also ‘as wise as serpents’. He wants a child’s heart, but a grown-up’s head. He wants us to be simple, single-minded, affectionate, and teachable, as good children are; but He also wants every bit of intelligence we have to be alert at its job, and in first-class fighting trim.” C.S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity“
“At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.” G.K. Chesterton
Fragments
Our lives are more a mosaic of many fragments than a perfect narrative with a beginning, two middle acts, and a cohesive happy ending. Our lifelong task is to do the best we can with each opportunity as it presents itself. The invitiations to kindness and love are not always apparent, and there is no…
Afterward
Ed died a couple of weeks ago. We went to his funeral, incongruously in the stately beauty of St. Mary Church in Newport where the Camelot Kennedys were married. Regular readers have met Ed here in another post. He was the gentle and once suffering soul who lived in an unmaintained mobile home with…
Whispers Of Another Kind
Three paths are most commonly followed by those who acknowledge the whispers heard only in the soul. Two are dead ends.
Whispers
“Your calculations are correct, but your grasp of physics is abominable.” Albert Einstein Be bad enough to get a handwritten margin note like this from your professor on a freshman physics quiz. Imagine being an aspiring young physics scientist and mathematician getting this commentary in a letter from Albert Einstein in the nineteen twenties? That…
Lion (Part 3)
The third and final part of a series on Pope Leo XiV and artificial intelligence. A brief introduction to some of the issues and challenges that will confront our culture as the Industrial Revolution fell upon the late nineteenth century and Pope Leo X!!!.
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