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Moral Duties in a Muddied World

Jon.nine Wrote: May 08, 2012 8:51 PM
For Tacitus X Wrote: Inspired to read Eliot, T.S. by President Obama Neither famous to my knowledge and less profound than many I thought, a thought I thought I would share: Preludes IV His soul stretched out across the skies That fade behind a city block, Or trampled by insistent feet At four, and five and six O'clock: And short square fingers stuffing pipes, And evening newspapers, and eyes Assured of certain certainties, The conscience of a blackened street Impatient to assume the world.
Jon.nine Wrote: May 09, 2012 2:36 AM
If I had an editor the second sentence would not have survived in tack. Put simply, the stanza struck me. I doubt it is famous, and that Eliot wrote greater verse. And what was playful at the time didn't stand the test. Oh, well. Besides, the quote stands for itself.

Vatican City -- In an election season in which the White House has instituted a policy that puts unprecedented limits on the constitutional right to freedom of religion, questions of conscience, duty and spiritual and moral obligation are of critical importance.

A conference at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences had some related thoughts and warnings. The Vatican think tank was founded in 1994 and is meant to facilitate a continuing dialogue between faith and reason, between the social sciences and the social thought of the Church.

To an American sitting in on the conference, some of its sessions amounted to...

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