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2017-12-13T12:44:15-04:00

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Is Love Nice?

Last updated on: December 13, 2017 at 12:44 pm By Chase Padusniak

These sorts of pieces often begin by letting the reader know where the word “nice” comes from. As a medievalist, I especially should delight in bringing this little bit of half-forgotten knowledge to light. It comes to us from the Latin “nescius,” meaning “ignorant” (itself coming from “nescire,” “to not know”) by way of French. By the late 12th century, it meant “silly” or “stupid.” One can observe its transition from its initial meaning to the one we know today... Read more

2017-12-07T13:30:00-04:00

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Byzantine “Advent”

Last updated on: December 7, 2017 at 1:30 pm By Chase Padusniak

Twitter and Facebook have made it more than clear that Latin Advent has begun. Devotionals are being posted, prayers recommended, and all sorts of exhortations are circulating through the digital world. It occurred to me that many people (you treasured few who waste bits of your time reading my work!) might not know much about the Byzantine version of this liturgical period, a preparatory time second only to the Great Fast (before Pascha, also known as Easter) for those of... Read more

2017-12-06T11:18:43-04:00

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Tax Plans, Graduate Students, and Bearing the Burden

Last updated on: December 6, 2017 at 11:18 am By Chase Padusniak

Most of what I write for this blog deals with, naturally enough, Catholicism. Sometimes I write reflections; other times I focus on socio-political questions. At times, I just address whatever of interest is going on in the Church. But every now and then, since I’m a graduate student, I weigh in on academia. This is one of the times. You see, a lot has been written about the GOP tax plan. Almost everyone knows something about it. What has received... Read more

2017-12-04T14:45:51-04:00

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Freedom: A Vexed Question

Last updated on: December 4, 2017 at 2:45 pm By Chase Padusniak

“To coerce a man is to deprive him of freedom—freedom from what? Almost every moralist in human history has praised freedom. Like happiness and goodness, like nature and reality, the meaning of this term is so porous that there is little interpretation that it seems able to resist.” – Isaiah Berlin Being American, I can’t help but hear the words “freedom” and “liberty” a lot. Every sporting event, never mind every communal gathering, finds its beginning in our national anthem:... Read more

2017-11-21T11:59:15-04:00

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Catholic Ideology

Last updated on: November 21, 2017 at 11:59 am By Chase Padusniak

It may seem rather odd for a Catholic to juxtapose these two terms, to place the Faith alongside a word that’s most often taken to mean a misguided viewpoint, even a self-serving way of seeing. Many would say that the whole point of becoming Catholic is to enter into a relationship with Christ and His Church. Our goal is to avoid refracted and insufficient ways of seeing, to pursue the greatest good rather than deficient, created ones. Certainly that is... Read more

2017-11-14T12:04:09-04:00

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Finding Yourself and Other Half-Truths

Last updated on: November 14, 2017 at 12:04 pm By Chase Padusniak

If I may begin abruptly: an ex-girlfriend once told me we couldn’t be together because she had to find herself first, and I’d heard that many times before—from friends, from acquaintances, really just belching forth in popping bubbles from the social soup in which we swim. It’s a common refrain, and, to be frank, one that gets disparaged quite a bit, especially within academic and Christian communities, in which bloggers, tweeters, and opiners of all kinds think themselves smarter than... Read more

2017-11-11T16:33:23-04:00

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1054: History, Myth, and the Making of a Schism (Full Essay)

Last updated on: November 11, 2017 at 4:33 pm By Guest Contributor

This post is a consolidation of an essay written by Nathan Smolin, a PhD Student in Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, originally published in three parts (which can be found here, here, and here). In order to make this long, but incredibly insightful, work more easily navigable and readable, I’ve republished it here. I hope it may benefit you, dear reader. Among the supposed “great dates” of history, one stands out strongly to those interested... Read more

2017-11-13T11:28:24-04:00

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What’s so Great About the Great Books?

Last updated on: November 13, 2017 at 11:28 am By Chase Padusniak

I’m currently at a conference at Notre Dame. Yesterday, I took part in a panel that, whatever its initial pretensions, ended up discussing concepts like “Great Books” and “humanism,” two nebulous, but, in their own way, important, topics. I owe much to my interlocutors, so I’d like to start by offering my thanks; the following (in)coherent ramblings are, at bottom, rooted in what they had to share. These questions seem worthy of address largely because there’s a lot of discussion... Read more

2017-11-27T17:51:24-04:00

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A Meditation on the “Jesus Prayer”

Last updated on: November 27, 2017 at 5:51 pm By Chase Padusniak

Over a month ago I decided I’d do a series of meditations: one on the “Our Father,” one on the “Hail Mary,” and one on the “Jesus Prayer.” Then my General Exams got in the way, taking me away from blogging for far too long. Finally, I’d like to complete this little chain of reflections. Why? Predominantly because I initially thought of these meditations as a way to improve my own prayer life, to more deeply involve my mind in... Read more

2017-11-03T08:47:04-04:00

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Vanity, Vanity

Last updated on: November 3, 2017 at 8:47 am By Chase Padusniak

I called a friend today, and after chatting about his insomnia and our mutual affection for certain philosophers, he hit me with something surprising: “well yeah; that’s because we’re both vain people.” It hit me hard, in the way I think fraternal correction ought. There was no accusation; rather, there was a sort of mutual condemnation—even if unintended—a verbal enactment of that reality we all ought to meditate upon: that I (each of us to ourselves) is the first among... Read more

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