Mar 26, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart
Janus, Terrorism and Peacemaking For it was a witty and a truthful rejoinder which was given by a pirate to Alexander the Great. The King asked the fellow, ‘What is your idea, in infesting the sea?’ And the pirate answered with uninhibited insolence, ‘The same as...
Mar 24, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review: Compassionate Fire: The Letters of Thomas Merton & Catherine de Hueck Doherty (Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 2009) ed. Robert Wild. I owe much to Catherine Thomas Merton Father Louis, in some strange mysterious way I never...
Feb 22, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart
The Jewish Tradition, at its noblest and finest, has bequeathed to the Western Tradition a high and noble ethical vision. The oral prophets such as Elijah and Elisha never flinched from staring down power when those in power used it in a way that abused...
Feb 3, 2011 | Author - Lazar Puhalo, Author - Ron Dart
A video symposium on religio-political incendiary language from the murder of Hypatia to our current crisis. David Goa asks, ‘Is there a way to hold to a serious faith commitment without demonizing those that genuinely disagree with us?’ In this interview,...
Jan 26, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart
Thomas Merton: Peacemaker I think that Thomas Merton could easily be called the greatest spiritual writer and spiritual master of the twentieth century in English speaking America. There is no other person who has such a profound influence on those writing on...
Dec 18, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
The name of Erasmus will never perish John Colet (1516) Erasmus has published volumes more full of wisdom than any which Europe has seen for ages. Thomas More The chief aim of Erasmus in his life’s work as a humanist scholar was to restore theology....
