“Love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss,” says the psalmist. But mercy might involve remission of punishment. Doesn’t that violate justice, which means giving each person what is due to him, honor for good, penalty for evil?
I wasn’t planning to post today, but my eye was caught by the news headline, “There’s a New No. 1 In Presidential Rankings.” Based on a new Pew Research Center study, the article breathlessly reports that Mr. Obama is now more popular than any other recent president.
Yes, yes, I know I posted a lot of talk and audio links yesterday, but I’ve got a new one.
Humanae Vitae 50th Anniversary Academic Symposium, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., April 2018
This is just to let all you video and podcast lovers out there that several new items have been added to my Listen to Talks page.
Veritas Forum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, October, 2003
Interview with Ratio Christi, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, February, 2018 -- Audio Only
Veritas Forum Lecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, February, 2018 -- Audio Only
Am I responsible for the historical sins of white folk against black?
Certainly not because I shared in them; I didn't.
Certainly not because my ancestors did; they hadn't arrived in the country yet.
Nor because my skin is the same color; if you insist on talking about ethnicity, I am of Polish and Ukrainian extraction, not English.
I guess I am still be thinking about last week’s theme, the two kinds of discontent, because the curious saying in Robert Browning’s poem, Andrea del Sarto, came back to me the other day: "Ah, a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"