When Are We Human?
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Not only has denying the full humanity of all biological human beings always been a mistake, it has shown itself repeatedly to be one of the worst mistakes we ever make.
Not only has denying the full humanity of all biological human beings always been a mistake, it has shown itself repeatedly to be one of the worst mistakes we ever make.
It’s curious, and perhaps not coincidental, that those who search out and seek to punish so-called hate speech haven't yet turned their attention to expressions of class hatred.
Once again we find ourselves in the synagogue of Nazareth, the village where Jesus grew up, where everyone knew him and his family.
He called himself the "little brother of Jesus," and he became a saint by bringing the presence of Christ's love to the poorest of the poor on the margins of the Sahara Desert.
Hannah Arendt worried about the blurring of distinctions between the real and the unreal, between truth and falsity.
A person who has not fallen in love with the God who gives himself in the Church cannot understand the life of the Church.
We have to learn 3 lessons about our appetites.
In our time, the saintly must prove itself to the political, which often stops up its ears. In the time of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) it was often the other way around: the political had to prove itself to the saintly.
On the development of a new morality.
We had been speaking by phone and volleying by e-mail with the regularity that marked our friendship for three decades...
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