Book excerpt

Aquinas, Augustine, and Aristotle on good government, as summarized by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

John Henry Newman on the manner of speech fitting for Christian faithfulness

Theologian Vigen Guroian reads “Lenten Spring,” a gardener’s meditation on the anticipation of new life, material and spiritual. (16 minutes)

Oliver O’Donovan on how authority and language connect us with reality and thus sustain community

Oliver O’Donovan on the difficult but essential task of reading our times

Benedict XVI on what threatens true academic freedom

Romano Guardini on the precious potential of limited images to reveal divine realities

David Thomson on the formative powers of television

Lesslie Newbigin on not knowing everything

Josef Pieper on why philosophy needs theology

Joseph Ratzinger on the partnership of faith and reason in the coherence of love and truth

Jacques Maritain on how human societies must account for the full nature of human personhood