Anthony Esolen: Threats of Murder at Providence College

https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/threats-murder-go-unpunished-providence-college

This article is a continuation of the previous, written on behalf of Michael Smalanskas, the brave student at Providence College who posted a sign affirming reality: because the Catholic teaching that only a man and a woman can feasibly marry is but a plain recognition of what is biologically, physically, and anthropologically the case. We do not need special revelation to tell us that the sun rises in the east, that two and two are four, and that the congress of the sexes requires the sexes. But we live in a time of political madness.

So after Michael was threatened with rape, and had for several nights to walk a gauntlet just to go to the bathroom and brush his teeth, and after the president, Father Brian Shanley, refused to meet with him or his father, and he became a marked man on campus, what could possibly be worse?

A murder threat is worse.

Anthony Esolen: Secular Superficiality Versus the Rootedness of Culture

Today at Crisis Magazine:

Much of the work of reclaiming our Catholic schools must be done, I am persuaded, outside of the religion and theology classes. It is good to have such classes. But if they are not also seen as laying the foundation for a veritable cathedral of cultural and intellectual learning, then we have wasted a tremendous opportunity. The people in our public institutions will never understand Tennyson’s agony of faith and doubt, because they will not be reading Tennyson at all—religion, you see. But what does it profit us if we cordon the truth off in the safe space of a religion class, and do not allow it to leaven everything else we learn? We have the chance not to be ignorant.

Read the whole essay by clicking on the below link:
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/secular-superficiality-versus-rootedness-culture 

Anthony Esolen: The Enemy Within (Providence College)

Anthony Esolen writing today at Crisis Magazine:

Last week at Providence College, a brave and devout Catholic student I got to know well last year during my own battles with the politically correct has had occasion to live out the words of Jesus: 

Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you (Mt. 5:11-12).
Here is what happened.

https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/providence-college-bullies-faithful-students?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrisisMagazine+%28Crisis+Magazine%29

Anthony Esolen: The Faithlessness of Public Education

Professor Anthony Esolen wrote today at Crisis Magazine.

https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/faithlessness-public-education?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrisisMagazine+%28Crisis+Magazine%29

I got a lot of searching and troubling answers to that question, and these persuaded me that, for all my suspicion of our large public institutions supposedly devoted to education, I had not come close to grasping how inhuman and soul-destroying they have become. They are places of neither faith, nor hope, nor love. Of course you do not seek faith, hope, and love at a shopping mall or those other places I have mentioned. But what if school, by its very nature, ought to be such a place?

Anthony Esolen: Profiles in Courage?

Anthony Esolen writing today at The Catholic Thing (the question mark is mocking the non-reaction of Canadian Catholics to the persecution of Jordan Peterson):

 I’m troubled by a curious neglect. Peterson is not a Catholic, or any kind of Christian, though he treats the Scriptures with respect. Why has he not been praised by the Catholics of Canada? Which prominent Catholics have rushed to support him, or to join him in his still lonely crusade for freedom of thought and sensible ordinary speech? As far as I can determine, no such support has been forthcoming. I may be wrong about this, and if so I apologize.

To read the essay, click on the link below.

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/02/28/profiles-in-courage/

Anthony Esolen: True Deiversity (Crisis Magazine)

Anthony Esolen writing today at Crisis Magazine:

You could not have, among the Christians of old, some people who still sacrificed to Bacchus and men who still went after boys and women who still procured abortions; that would have been the same old world, with a little perfume. So now we cannot have a diversity that means no more than conformity to the world. Things are clearer than ever. Unity in Christ alone can give the world the diversity it needs.

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2017/true-diversity-in-unity

Anthony Esolen: "Open Your Eyes Fr. Martin"

Anthony Esolen writing today at CrisisMagazine.Com:

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2017/open-eyes-father-martin?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrisisMagazine+%28Crisis+Magazine%29

Anthony Esolen: The Pleasures of Virtue

From The Catholic Thing today:

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2017/10/05/the-pleasures-of-virtue/

Virtue, as the perpetual adolescent known as modern man will not understand, is not a restraint upon freedom but a liberating power. If you abuse your knees you will not enjoy an alternative form of walking. You will be a cripple. If you abuse your moral powers, you will be a moral cripple.

Non-Judgmental Hypocrisy

From Anthony Esolen, writing today at The Catholic Thing Blog.

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2017/08/03/splinters-beams-and-clear-sight%e2%80%a8%e2%80%a8/