“Can a Catholic be a socialist? The answer is obvious. No, not in a million years, why would you even ask? Pius said no one and no means no. But it’s not so obvious.”

«Freedom is more than freedom from restraint or control or authority. Freedom, in its deepest sense, is for something. True freedom of this kind, freedom for happiness or the good life, can even face unjust restraint, control, or authority and retain the dignity of being free. The only way a person can find freedom from unjust restraint or immoral control is because they first have this internal sense of freedom for something. The person who has this internal sense of freedom can never be a slave, even if they are in bondage. When freedom is just the absence of authority, it quickly can lose its sense of responsibility and sense of what it is for. This kind of freedom becomes purely external and loses the real internal soul of freedom. This is the “Braveheart Freedom” that will get you killed.»

“Education cannot be institutionalized or corralled […] if you care about the art of teaching, you will need to have more than schooling in your heart and mind. Beautiful teaching requires an explicit, philosophical interest in education—in the widest sense. A gifted teacher always sees more to things than the institution or the profession dictates. Any teacher worthy of the name sees the person. In this minimal sense we all can strive to be teachers; and for some of us, teaching is a vocation.”

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