Where Are We Going? And How Do We Get There?
By DONALD DeMARCO I am not a very good reader. Speed reading is not in my DNA. I pick up a book or a magazine and commence reading. But I do not get very far. A provocative sentence stops me in my tracks. I am compelled to meditate on the sentence and draw from it all the intellectual nourishment that it provides.An example of my “read and stop” method is a sentence I came upon from an obscure text in the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: “Although man has a natural inclination toward his ultimate end, he cannot attain it by natural means but by grace only, and this is because of the eminence of that very end.” This is…Continue Reading