Interesting series:

Josef Seifert on the nature and importance of freedom:

1  Are we free? Are we persons?
2  Why nothing is left of Jewish Christian Faith if we are not free.
3  But are we free? Five questions.
4  What Is Freedom? Can We choose Radically Different Lives?
5  Inner Freedom and Cooperative Freedom
6  Are we really free? Can we know it?
7  The first three evidences for human freedom
…  to be continued

John Crosby on the philosophy of John Paul II:

1  Flying With Both Wings: Why Christians Need Philosophy
2  Worthy of Respect: The Personalist Norm
3  Interiority of Human Persons
4  Persons Are Unrepeatable
5  Human Freedom
6  Freedom and Truth
7  Self-Donation
8  Embodiment
9  Embodiment and Morality
10  Solidarity

The Christopher West controversy:

•  The Nightline interview that started it all
•  Alice von Hildebrand's critique
•  David Schindler's critique
•  Fr. Angelo Geiger weighs in
•  A word by West himself
•  Janet Smith's defense
•  Michael Waldstein's defense
•  Schindler responds to Smith and Waldstein
•  Janet Smith's second counter
•  Fr. Angelo Geiger weighs in a 2nd time
•  West's response to the controversy

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Recent posts:

•  Christians in public 
•  Satanism in the Vatican (3)
•  Freedom has to come from within (2)
•  Al Qaida calls for more murder 
•  Intimidation vs. freedom in religion 
•  Son of Hamas fingers Allah as the source of Islamic terror 
•  Josef Seifert calls on PAV President to step down (4)
•  Intimacy without love: an illustration 
•  Bill Buckley on the morality of the last days 
•  Intimacy without love damages the spirit (24)
•  Kleist’s take on modernity (5)
•  Lenten Reading 
•  Christian and Islamic visions of love 
•  Conflating toughness and bullying (1)
•  Ayn Rand’s false philosophy (2)
•  Gift and grateful striving: Personalist Insight of the Day (PID) (2)
•  The curse and the gift of being Irish (2)
•  Defeating corruption 
•  Equality of persons 
•  A must see documentary on person-destroying ideologies 
•  From Pope Benedict 
•  Mugged by the ultrasound (2)
•  The Gospel of Life 
•  Martin Luther King, Jr., personalist 
•  What makes you suffer? 
•  Nancy Pelosi’s Archbishop explains the meaning of freedom 
•  The beginning of love 
•  The moral vacuum in western world makes Islam appealing to women (3)
•  Between the knockers and boosters of modern culture (2)
•  Christmas reading and listening recommendations (1)
•  The Incarnation: the glorification of humanity 
•  A sign of hope 
•  The marriage debt (2)
•  On not wanting reality 
•  Weigel on just war theory 
•  Environmentalism’s assault on persons 
•  Apprehension vs. seeing 
•  Cloning and the right to ignorance (2)
•  Ecclesiastical dysfunction 
•  Criticizing modernity (2)
•  Sexual revolution coming under fire from former liberals 
•  Communion (9)
•  Stigma and motivation 
•  Von Hildebrand on gratitude 
•  The role of philosophy (3)
•  Thanksgiving as an interpersonal act 
•  Personalism in education administration (2)
•  The origins of religion 
•  An anger image 
•  Why a theology of the body? (3)
•  Great movies about life behind the wall (2)
•  The fall of the wall 
•  Continuing the TOB discussion (45)
•  Christopher West breaks silence; answers critics (75)
•  Scientific evidence for the importance of fathers 
•  Why Benedict did what he did 
•  Two views on children 
•  Moral bankruptcy among the elites (1)
•  Recommendation reading and viewing about China under Mao 
•  The big difference between Mother Teresa and Mao Tse Tung (2)
•  Man: the dressing animal (3)
•  Scientistic dogmatism vs. God and human dignity 
•  Remembering two great personalists 
•  Another frowned-upon emotion (1)
•  Podles on anger and the virtuous life [updated] (4)
•  Newman’s conversion 
•  The goodness of lamenting 
•  Two must-read articles on sexuality and porn (3)
•  Weigel at Immaculata (16)
•  Newman on perfection (2)
•  More on ideology (1)
•  Personalism and NFP 
•  What’s wrong with ideology? (1)
•  What’s happening in Europe? 
•  The incommensurability of justice and mercy (6)
•  Who will we stand with? (1)
•  A 9/11 anniversary tribute 
•  Bad news for religious liberty 
•  The rising cult of experts (1)
•  Benjamin Franklin on anger 
•  The incipient personalism of romanticism? (11)
•  Freedom 7: The first three evidences for human freedom 
•  Freedom 6: Are we really free?  Can we know it? 
•  What divides us? (7)
•  Freedom 5: Inner Freedom and Cooperative Freedom (6)
•  More on Christopher West 
•  Freedom 4: What Is Freedom? Can We choose Radically Different Lives? 
•  A child psychologist’s insights on anger (20)
•  Stevenson’s wrath (2)
•  Anniversary of the death of Newman (4)
•  Tocqueville’s definition of individualism 
•  Ronda Chervin on Anger (2)
•  Suggested weekend reading (1)
•  Anger, passivity, bureaucracy (2)
•  Where’s the wrath? (60)
•  Persons and power 
•  Emptiness (1)
•  Who really inspires the political left? 
•  The limits of central planning 
•  What freedom is not