Category Archives: Essays
Modern Tech / Ancient Wisdom
Considered from the perspective of someone pondering the ideals of Catholic education, there is a certain tension communicated by the phrases “ancient wisdom” and “modern technology.” We might even feel an impetus to cast it as “Ancient Wisdom vs. Modern Technology.” And why not? It seems obviously right to extol …
Poetry ~ God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with …