ShareThe Vatican has created a marvelous virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel. Click on the link and you are taken to an interactive 360 degree view of the chapel. Move around the chapel, zoom in and out on the 26 sections depicting Biblical eras and characters. Follow Michelangelo’s history of the world from creation through [...]
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ShareThe Society recently received this letter from Jerome Gilmartin: My wife Marie and I have two daughters whom we love dearly. Both, however, lost their Catholic Faith in college. Drawing on many reliable sources, The 7-Step Reason to be Catholic, 2nd Ed: Science, the Bible and History point to Catholicism (Imprimatur) is my effort to [...] ShareThe National Catholic Bioethics Center encourages more Catholic colleges include bioethics in their curricula. The piece mentions the support for adding bioethics courses by Msgr. David Liptak, co-director of the Pope John Paul II Bioethics Center at HACS. Our graduate bioethics program works in collaboration with NCBC to provide a unique educational opportunity that can [...] Share ShareFrom the Lumen Christi Institute website: It’s a good thing, almost everyone would say, to want to know things; that view is certainly bone-deep in our universities and colleges, as well as in the church. But there are different ways of coming to want to know things, different ways of training and forming the appetite [...] ShareNotes Timeliness of Saint’s Moral Theology VATICAN CITY, JUNE 16, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas is timely even today, says Benedict XVI, who pointed to the saint’s emphasis on natural law. The Pope took up the teachings of Aquinas today, continuing his catechesis on the Christian culture of the Middle Ages [...] ShareNorthwestern University (Evanston, IL) is hosting its 4th Ethical Theory and Political Philosophy Conference, May 20 – 22. The event is free and open to the public. Details and program are listed here: http://www.philosophy.northwestern.edu/conferences/moralpolitical/program.html Of particular interest is the closing address by Christine Korsgaard entitled “Reflections on the Evolution of Morality.” Dr. Korsgaard is a [...] ShareFrom the Institute’s site: This Institute began in December 2004, during the sesquicentennial celebration of Saint John the Evangelist Parish in Stamford, Connecticut. Efforts progressed and continue to acquire the entire patristic corpus by the Abbe Migne, as well as other important and modern critical editions of patristic works. To date, Saint Monica’s has acquired [...] Share The beatification ceremony for Cardinal Newman is taking place this September in England and the Holy Father himself is going to be the presider. Events celebrating the beatification and the Papal visit also include a public mass in Scotland, a prayer vigil in London, an audience in the Westminster Hall (trial site of St. [...] |
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