“Private Vices … may be turned into Public Benefits”, Adam Smith’s belief that when an individual pursues his self-interest under conditions of justice, he unintentionally promotes the good of society. Self-interested competition in the free market, he argued, would tend to benefit society as a whole by keeping prices low, while still building in an incentive […]
We don’t feel comfortable in the Church because it is full of sinners. But it would be even less comfortable if it was full of saints.
I recommend this psalm as a prayer to all of us who spend their days immersed in technology and science. I find it important to remind ourselves of who is the moving power behind all of that that we analyse and measure. Sometimes I hear theologians saying that the more we discover how complex the […]
For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. 1 You, Lord, showed favour to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob. 2 You forgave the iniquity of your people and covered all their sins. 3 You set aside all your wrath and turned from your fierce anger. 4 Restore us […]
A Desire for God’s House 1 How beautiful are the places where You live, O Lord of all! 2 My soul wants and even becomes weak from wanting to be in the house of the Lord. My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. 3 Even the bird has found a […]
I continually meet people who believe that training students in the Catholic intellectual tradition and the skilled trades is not merely a paradox (which I grant), but a contradiction. “Some people are meant for college; others for the trades,” I often hear. But there is something profoundly anti-Christian about this seemingly harmless statement. It is […]