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Yearly Archives: 2005

What makes a university ‘great’?

Milwaukee’s Marquette University has been in a bit of a flap. Marquette’s athletic teams had long been known as the “Warriors.” When the politically correct...

Extremism? Whose extremism?

During the recent, raucous debate in the U.S. Senate over what’s procedurally kosher in considering a president’s judicial selections, opponents of several Bush nominees...

How doctrine liberates

A lot of press coverage of Archbishop William Levada’s nomination as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) revisited some...

Great expectations

A few days after the election of Pope Benedict XVI, a dozen men friendly to the new pontiff met for dinner in Rome. Judging...

What’s in a “milieu”?

Pope John Paul II’s spiritual testament, which was read to the College of Cardinals a few days after his death and later released to...

The greats make a come-back

Although my high school years coincided with the Age of Aquarius, I was spared the kind of reading lists that now imagine Dan (DaVinci...

Baseball, theology, and guilds

There’s more than enough blame to parcel out in major league baseball’s steroids scandal. Ownership ignored the problem because juiced home-run numbers were reviving...

What Benedict XVI means

ROME — The election of Pope Benedict XVI means many things: a resounding affirmation of the pontificate of John Paul the Great; an overwhelming...

Europe’s present, America’s future?

What do Konrad Adenauer, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and the two Augustines (Hippo and Canterbury) have in common? Or Bach, Bacon, Becket, Bede,...

Tales from eight conclaves

The next conclave will be strikingly different from its predecessors: there will be a far larger and much more diverse group of electors; the...
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