Friday, October 25, 2019

"why we have no trouble in being kind to heretics, and no repugnance in rubbing shoulders with them"

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     "If heretics no longer horrify us today, as they once did our forefathers, is it certain that it is because there is more charity ...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

"a technology is not simply a technique that may be employed for good or ill"

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"a technology is not simply a technique that may be employed for good or ill but bears within itself a value system and a worldview—per...

"What John Paul II has done with . . . his establishment of the John Paul II Institute, with its branches in every continent, cannot now be undone."

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      Stratford Caldecott, "New sins:  technology and the frontiers of Catholic social teaching," Communio:  international Catholi...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

"technology is never merely technology. It reveals man and his aspirations"

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"Technology — it is worth emphasizing — is a profoundly human reality, linked to the autonomy and freedom of man. In technology we expr...

"I am the resurrection and the life."

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"All the efforts of technology [(technicae artis)], however beneficial, cannot allay human anxiety, and the prolongation of biological ...

"he raiseth up the soul, and enlighteneth the eyes, and giveth health, and life, and blessing."

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Ravenna, Museo Arcivescovile, Cathedra of Archbishop Maximian ἀνυψῶν ψυχὴν καὶ φωτίζων ὀφθαλμούς, ἴασιν διδούς, ζωὴν καὶ εὐλογίαν.    ...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

"The certainties of physics might establish an intellectual foundation, and philosophical ambiguities may delight, but not much compares to the roar of a bike."

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      Matthew B.Crawford, as quoted in  The chronicle of higher education,  8 April 2015 .