Day: May 17, 2009

Brigid makes the news at Notre Dame today

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My now-deceased business associate Lou Ferraguzzi was always able to turn a neat phrase. And when we disagreed on something he’d say “Tom, you’ve been educated beyond your capacity.” Fr. John Jenkins, CSC, President of Notre Dame, has a Ph.D in medieval philosophy and has written scholarly articles on Thomas Aquinas. His decision to have the President … Read more

A little more on the issue of “does the end justify the means?”

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I was musing on this here Tom Faranda’s Folly: Torture: Does the end justify the means? last Wednesday when I answered this rhetorical question in the first line of the post “Of course not”. Here’s another op ed feature (from the WSJ) that argues the opposite. The writer attempts to justify our deliberate attacks on civilian populations in … Read more