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Imagining the Real: Poetry, Story, Myth

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Poiesis delights and entertains us. A novel, a play, a myth retold, even a song: true art is never mere entertainment.…

Telling Lies

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A society no longer bound by an underlying universal logos is bound only by an irrational rebellion against reality, by…

Loaded Words

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In the beginning was the Word. Human beings, made in the image of God, share in this utterance, this Logos. Language,…

Quintessentially Human: Language

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What is language? We are born into it, already attuned to the rhythm and syntax of our mother tongue. In our first…

"By Their Fruits..."

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When a plant grows to maturity, it bears fruit. This comes naturally. In the human situation too, bearing good fruit is…

Saying "I Do"

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What does it mean to be an adult? Some think of maturity in terms of self-possession. But what if adulthood is actually…

Adulthood: Entering the School of Life

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An adult is a grown up, someone who has developed to the point of maturity. He or she has “graduated from school,” so…

Adulthood: Man Fully Alive

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A troubling new trend suggests that instead of being an adult, it is sufficient “to adult” when necessary—that is, to…

The Vulnerable Body

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To be embodied is to be vulnerable. Vulnerability strikes us as negative and with reason, rooted as it is in the word…

Sex and the Mystery of Being Human

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As the late political philosopher Augusto Del Noce said, the sexual revolution was the most revolutionary because it…
Humanum: Issues in Family, Culture & Science
Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family
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Washington, DC 20064