The Home of Responsibility

The Home of Responsibility

The crisis of responsibility, which is obvious to anyone today, first took root in our homes. We should then address it in our home life. For, of course, home is the ‘home’ of responsibility. There is no context that so clearly demands taking responsibility for others...
Spending Wealth for the Common Good

Spending Wealth for the Common Good

We know that how we earn and spend wealth are significant issues. But often due to the press of life we do not give these the reflection we should. ‘Practical’ demands tend to override deeper human considerations. Our philosophical and theological traditions have much...
Making Stability in the Home

Making Stability in the Home

Our lives today are marked by changeability. Where we live, where we work, and the cast of people with whom we share a life—even if we stay in the same place—change at an unprecedented rate. Other key things also change regularly, such as the basic tools of our work,...
Singing in the Home: Is It Essential?

Singing in the Home: Is It Essential?

“Only the lover sings.” Though St. Augustine’s rightly famous words strike us as true, we perhaps do not immediately grasp a corollary: love calls for and even demands singing. To sing—at least in a certain way—both expresses and cultivates the very love from which it...
A Husband’s Place: Forging Peace in the Home

A Husband’s Place: Forging Peace in the Home

A husband and father struggles to discover his place in the home. What exactly is his mission and how does he go about achieving it? A proper notion of peace, and of home, can offer clarification. Augustine’s definition of peace is my all-time favorite definition....

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