Tag Archives: Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania

A number of weeks ago my attention was drawn to an issue raised at a local Catholic School to which the son of a close friend of mine attends. The situation was as follows. In line with the recommendation that ...

I realize there is so much that I don’t know. I am limited by the breadth and depth of my inability to fully perceive events and ideas. Reading gives me knowledge, but not wisdom – study may give me information, ...

On some occasions after an essay is published I receive a response from readers giving me their opinions and sharing perspectives from their life experiences. After the publication of The Critical Mass – Part I, I was called by a ...

My father once told me the story of a woman who was praying in front of an Icon of Our Lord in a Church. As he recounted the story, a second woman had overheard the first woman’s fervent prayer, which ...

I ask the reader for patience as I present a series of vignettes, to hopefully unpack what I believe to be an important message. First, my grandmother was a Polish woman gifted with a sardonic wit. One day someone announced ...

Dead Souls (B) Yet that the individual seeks to meditate highlights that within this burgeoning market of meditation, there is an aboriginal element yearning within the most atheistic or agnostic man or woman which understands that they indeed have a ...

Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that: “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” In fact it is a curious thing, that we never cease being perplexed at why our friends are attracted ...

A cynic or perhaps better said, a realist, could quite plausibly add that the capacity of the Church to validly celebrate the Sacrament of Marriage has been significantly compromised since the disintegration of the family unit in the Western World; ...

I want to speak today about the wisdom of the child – the beauty of innocence – the freshness of new life; a life that brings light unto the darkness too often found in the world. If I was to ...

Part I Joseph Heller’s novel Catch 22, tells the tale of a United States Air Force bombardier in World War II, John Yossarian, who defines as his enemy anyone who is attempting to kill him. Armed with this definition of ...

As a Retreat master at an all-boys Catholic College, it is part of my duty to invite priests to the Retreats, often to celebrate the Eucharist but mainly to hear the confessions of the students. When I create a roster ...