Critique of Marcuse’s theory of “eros” and politics, in relation to “woke” culture’s love of ugliness (emphasizing Marcuse’s overlap with Adorno). To help the channel: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/europos For expanded/written versions of videos: https://europos.substack.com/ Header image: Photo by Moises Gonzalez on Unsplash
Source: Margarita Mooney Suarez via comment.org. This article originally appeared on October 15th, 2021 in Comment, a publication ofCARDUS: www.cardus.ca. When I took a wrong turn while driving with students in Rhode Island in the summer of 2019, we found ourselves driving over a bridge clouded in fog, seemingly going […]
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via youtube.com Friends, why is art important? An uptick in vandalism against famous pieces of art, calling to mind outbreaks of iconoclasm throughout history, has raised questions about art’s value and purpose. On today’s “Word on Fire Show,” I discuss with Brandon Vogt why art matters. […]
Source: John F. Doherty via thepublicdiscourse.com. Printed with permission.Originally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ. Reason cannot become right reason unless the will is in love with the Truth; intellectual formation requires moral formation. And yet, as my previous essay argued, the […]
Source: Hello Irlandia via youtube.com. In the summer of 2014 a scandal arose in relation to the Tuam Children’s Home in Co. Galway in Ireland. It was alleged that the nuns who looked after children there from 1925-61 had maltreated them. In this video, historians Eugene Jordan and Brian Nugent […]
Source: Ascension Presents via YouTube What is truth? On this channel, we speak a lot about the teachings of the Church and how our society longs for these truths. But have you ever stopped and asked yourself what truth really is? There can be a lot of long, philosophical, complicated […]
Ever since my book What the Saints Never Said was published, people have asked me, “What is your least favorite apocryphal saint quote?” Some people expect me to answer with the classic faux Franciscan quote “Preach the Gospel, use words if necessary,” which is irritating because it reduces evangelism to “random acts […]
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Source: Catholic Answers on YouTube Have you ever tried to persuade someone that your belief was true and that person responds, “Well, there is no truth” or “It might be true for you, but not for me”? It’s a frustrating experience. This way of thinking, called relativism, can impede any […]