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(Tod Worner) Exploring the intellectual & mystical brilliance of the Catholic faith (Twitter @thinkercatholic).Physician. Word on Fire Editor-in-Chief

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When I’m defending, I want to make it the worst day of your life.
—ND point guard Hannah Hidalgo

Congratulations to the Fighting Irish men’s & women’s basketball teams for winning their season openers against Villanova in the Eternal City Tip-Off in Rome! ☘️☘️☘️

#goirish

@ndwbb @ndmbb @hannah.hidalgo3 by @catholicthinker

On the road we’re somebody else’s guests — and we play in a way that they’re not going to forget we visited them.
—Coach Knute Rockne

@notredame @ndfootball

#goirish by @catholicthinker

A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Blair Witch Project, and The Exorcist have scared the daylights out of a generation of moviegoers. And even though viewers startle and jump, chill and scream, they keep coming back for more. What is it that makes us crave a good scare? And where is God in the fright of such horror movies? Join me and Fr. Ryan Duns as we seek God in the darkness in his new book, Theology of Horror: The Hidden Depths of Popular Film on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast.

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https://www.wordonfire.org/videos/evangelization-and-culture-podcast/ep46-theology-of-horror-fr-ryan-duns/ by @catholicthinker

As fathomless as the human condition seems to be, there is little that captures it as well as the three word characterization: Dignified. Fallible. Redeemable. by @catholicthinker

The reason formation, not simply education, matters is that it knits your principles & skills deep in your bones. Education fosters a cerebral assent to a proposition. It is the stuff of the mind. But formation is the stuff of mind & soul. Education informs; formation ennobles. Be formed. by @catholicthinker

What happens when a man who is a faithful husband, loving father, celebrated lawyer, incisive writer, and devoted son of the Church is asked to either violate his conscience or face being imprisoned, hanged, drawn, quartered, and beheaded? If you are most men, you capitulate. But if you are St. Thomas More, you guard your conscience, deepen your faith, and gird yourself for the trial to come.

Join Hillsdale College Professor Stephen Smith and me as we explore the saint’s powerful prison letters in Smith’s new book, The Last Riddle: Advice on Living and Dying Well from the Imprisoned St. Thomas More, on The Evangelization & Culture Podcast.

(Link in bio) by @catholicthinker

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
—Rodion Raskolnikov, Crime & Punishment by @catholicthinker

While watching “You Can See Everything,” I found myself asking:

Is Elizabeth Holmes a visionary dreamer who was duped by Machiavellian lovers and invincible self-deception? Is Elizabeth Holmes a canny, sociopathic manipulator intent on maintaining a cynical fiction to manage her image and elude punishment?
What is the truth about Elizabeth Holmes?

It’s complicated. Or so it seems.

The Nesting Doll: Elizabeth Holmes and ‘You Can See Everything’

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#elizabethholmes #youcanseeeverything by @catholicthinker

Jane Austen is a genius. by @catholicthinker

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is enthusiastically lobbying our medical system to entrust AI to become our primary physicians. As a physician who has practiced internal medicine for nearly 30 years, I appreciate Emanuel’s enthusiasm. I really do.

But he is simply wrong.

(A little editorial I recently penned.)

https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/ai-doesnt-know-you-but-a-good-physician-does by @catholicthinker

I used to be so interested in the intellectual strains of politics. Classic liberalism, Burkean conservatism, etc. Now, I’m just bored & alarmed by the intellectual incuriosity of both parties. It’s just rabid spasms of rage & unthinking babbling talking points. No Ciceros here. *Sigh* by @catholicthinker

It’s good to be successful, but it’s great to be significant.
—Coach Lou Holtz

#goirish

@notredame by @catholicthinker