By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing, May 12, 2022
Michael Pakaluk, an Aristotle scholar and Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, is a professor in the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. …
The most fundamental problem that confronts a Christian, in my view, is how to answer to the Passion of Our Lord – how to prove, as it were, that we have begun to appreciate it, and are grateful for His suffering and death for us.
Every other matter we may like to occupy ourselves with – “political theology” and church-state relations, corruption in the hierarchy, the putative decline of culture and society, the latest twisted fads, liturgical abuses, theological controversies –these, by comparison, are distractions. We are fundamentally unjust, in Plato’s terms, as we do not “mind our own work” first of all. …