Tag Archives: friendship
Saint Augustine on Friendship
This paper was written in preparation for a talk at the 2006 Saint Benedict Center Conference. My talk — which was not a mere reading of the paper — is available on CD and MP3. The conference’s theme was “Catholic Friends and Family: Christening Society.” The conference was intended to be “A frank series of practical and doctrinal talks touching upon the proper Catholic living … More →
Holy Matrimony: Choosing a Partner
(This was written in preparation for a series of conferences on vocations and states in life that I gave at Saint Benedict Center in the Spring of 2005. Please see the end of this piece for a small table of contents with links to the other conferences.) There is an Arabian proverb that goes like this: “Choose your horse from a hundred, your friend from … More →
