Pope Francis recently addressed a conference in Trieste, Italy, on the theme, “At the Heart of Democracy.” He began by invoking Blessed Giuseppe Toniolo’s definition of democracy: “that civil order in which all social, legal, and economic forces . . . cooperate proportionally for the common good, ultimately benefiting the
Cover image via Gospel Media Library. Once when I was teaching an institute class on the Book of Mormon, I lined up two scriptures and asked a question that I thought would be easy. As it turned out, it wasn’t. There is a point in Nephi’s record of the wilderness
We are caught in the appreciations of things by endowing them with names, but the nature of the world is nonverbal, has nothing to do with words at all. We cannot apprehend the true nature of reality beyond the veil of the nominal.—A reflection on Jung from Cormac McCarthy’s personal
Blaise Pascal wrote: “How I hate these stupidities: of not believing in the Eucharist, etc. If the Gospel is true, if Jesus Christ is God, where is the difficulty?” (Pensées §199). Pascal’s point was that if one accepts the rather incredible premise that there is a God who loves the