There is an ancient story of an Emperor who encountered a philosopher on the road. The Emperor threatened him, saying “What use are you...

Growing up, we all learned the Golden Rule (all of us, that is, except Peter Pan): “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”...

Although five books of the New Testament have traditionally been attributed to the apostle John, modern scholarship has identified two of...

In a previous article in this collection (“One Party Rule”), we discovered that there is really only one true political party in the...

Did you ever say to yourself, “If only I had known then what I know now?” Say it’s Tuesday night and you have an English test coming up...

Ask anyone passingly acquainted with American poetry to tell you the title of his favorite Robert Frost poem and you might expect to...

Robert Frost’s 1916 poem, The Road Not Taken, appears to be a comment on existential angst and the human condition; and on one level it...

(The text of this one act play is taken from Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 Encyclical on The Condition of the Working Classes, Rerum Novarum. I...

In Roman Catholic liturgy, the Eucharistic Prayer, the central event of the Mass that incorporates the Transubstantiation of bread and...

No, our title does not refer to a pub in London…though if it did, I would certainly be having a pint there. Rather it refers to a poem...

Beyond the works of Wagner (The Ring),Tolkien (Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit) and, of course, Marvel Comics, most of what we know...

On Christmas, we celebrate the birth of Jesus, a Nazarene who Christians believe is the Christ, the Messiah foretold throughout Old...

Language, the principal medium of human reason, comes in three voices: systematic, poetic and mythic. Each voice lets us probe the...

No, not the movie…the Eucharist! Much of Christian eschatology is organized around two concepts: Apocalypse and Parousia, ancient Greek...

The world we live in seems to consist of discrete entities, i.e. objects and events with size, shape and/or duration (in other words,...

What is real…and what isn’t? It seems at times that this question defines the entire project of our lives. As very young children, we...

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.” In high school, if not before, most of us were...

At least since the Enlightenment, Westerners have been looking at the world in a very particular way. We have successively become...

In its introduction to the Book of Revelation, the New American Bible (Revised Edition), currently the official translation of the Roman...

From the Industrial Revolution to the Dotcom Revolution, intellectual, social and economic history was dominated by the struggle between...