by ICLE Team | Sep 17, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
Many consider “cultural relativism” a new phenomenon. But people have long recognized that cultures differ in their moral beliefs and practices. It was not a modern anthropologist, but the Greek historian Herodotus who observed, “if one were to offer men to choose out...
by ICLE Team | Sep 11, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
I love directing Shakespeare’s plays. Since the words mean everything in a successful performance, I am always faced with the challenge of interpreting every speech, every difficult passage, every seemingly insignificant scene. I delight in discovering the dramatic...
by ICLE Team | Sep 11, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
Allan Bloom began his Closing of the American Mind with this memorable observation: “There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.” (25) College...
by ICLE Team | Sep 4, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
There are always students at the beginning of my Moral Theology course who wonder why the class matters. To them, “moral theology” is perhaps a pretentious way of getting immersed in a set of rules dictated by the Church. For a significant number of these students,...
by ICLE Team | Jul 21, 2017 | Member School Content, Raphael's Room Blog
By Bishop James D. Conley Fifty years ago this month, in July of 1967, a group Catholic university presidents and administrators met together at a retreat center in Land O’Lakes, Wisconsin, in Wisconsin’s northern forest, along the border with the upper peninsula of...
by ICLE Team | Jun 30, 2017 | Member School Content, Raphael's Room Blog
The liberal arts allow us the freedom to become more fully human by sharing as fully as possible in that which makes us distinct, and the freedom to flourish through the reality of our nature, our humanity, and, yes, perhaps even our divinity… Why My Favorite Nun Was...
