This essay is the fourth in the series “Good Habits.” The discussion is based on my book of the same title. Creativity is a mental process for producing ideas that are both uncommon and uncommonly good, ideas that solve problems and resolve issues...
This essay is the third in the series “Good Habits.” The discussion is based on my book of the same title. The word “efficiency” frightens many people. Some see it as cold, regimented, and mechanical and think it makes life grim and joyless. Others...
The decline of America has been underway for decades and has dramatically increased in recent years. Signs of it are now evident throughout our society. Part 1 of this essay explained how Churches can help solve the problem by directly addressing...
I recently wrote that for many decades politicians have used “Separation of Church and State” to intimidate the clergy to be silent about “political issues,” and that most churches responded accordingly. One result I noted has been to deprive...
If this old adage is valid, then people my age will have some serious answering to do. The origins of this phrase date back to the statement that Whom the gods love; Best go first. Its history looks to the Greek historian Herodotus, who recounted...
College students are back in the classroom now that a new academic term has begun—but this year some of them will be tempted to take advantage of a new form of cheating previously unavailable: using A.I., or artificial intelligence. Programs such as...
Cardinal Dolan began a June 2023 essay by lamenting that “religious freedom—our first and most cherished liberty—has wrongly come to be seen by many in the United States as a partisan cause.” What dangerous people hold this disgraceful view? He...
Our form of government in the United States is surprisingly compatible with the long-standing social teaching of the Catholic Church. St. Pope John XXIII, in his encyclical letter, “Peace on Earth”, teaches, “Authority must be guided by the moral...
