Column: As This Jesuit Sees It...

My experience is that students who are in the midst of making this mistake — which is basically doing a good thing for the wrong reason — often find themselves feeling deep down that something is not right.

In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, I’ve wrestled with the question: How could a good and all-powerful God let such a terrible thing happen?

The proper effect of a liberal — or freeing from self — education is, however, that our souls should be “set in a flame.” The first step in any liberal education is, indeed, simply “to hear Plato.”

Archbishop Tafunga emphasizes that human tradition in Africa recognizes evil and its need of individual and corporate reconciliation.

The method of execution was meant to send a message: The Jesuits were shot in the head to destroy the brains that were the font of ideas that challenged a repressive system.

Somehow Hoya peacockery can be easily transformed from comical to menacing, from pitiable to credible in this time of decisions about withdrawals.

Something in my soul resonates with Samuel Johnson’s suggestion to read five hours a day. I am an advocate for getting an education in spite of college.

Millenials on the Hilltop bounce from one activity to the next in a dizzying array of clubs, teams, group projects, social events and internships. All this efficiency and productivity — but at what price?

Most of us want to get things right, to move toward the answer to our deepest questions. We also know that on our good days, our progress is two steps forward, one step back.

A friend told me that she, her husband and her family were to spend time on the Mendocino coast in Northern California, where “it should be very cold and foggy, a refreshing change after D.C.!”