Category Archives: Education

12 Top Quotes from World Communications Days (2018-2023)

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Bill Schmitt

Listen to my conversation with Matt Swaim on the Son Rise Morning Show (5-22-23), discussing World Communications Day. Click here and jump to the 1:39 mark. This commentary was also published 5-21-23 in “Phronesis in Pieces” at billschmitt.substack.com. Today is … Continue reading →

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“Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown”

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Bill Schmitt

This commentary is a preview of content soon to be published in “Phronesis in Pieces” at billschmitt.substack.com. The coronation of King Charles III on May 6 provided a thought-provoking education in the inspiration and incompleteness of symbolism. For a Catholic … Continue reading →

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Are We Becoming Infophobes?

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Bill Schmitt

This commentary is a preview of content that will appear later in “Phronesis in Pieces” at billschmitt.substack.com. “Phobia” is one of the many words which have been repurposed these days, as in “transphobe” or “homophobe.” So, appropriately, as I coin … Continue reading →

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Shopping for Intelligence — No Artificial Ingredients

Posted on April 21, 2023 by Bill Schmitt

This is a follow-up to the “Googolplex” commentary, discussed on The Son Rise Morning Show on April 21. Please read that piece, found below, first. Look for this addendum in Phronesis in Pieces, at billschmitt.substack.com, in the coming days. Here … Continue reading →

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Acting Our Age: The ‘Generation Gap’ Regenerates

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Bill Schmitt

7 min ago This commentary first appeared in “Phronesis in Pieces” at billschmitt.substack.com. Please take a look at this publication on Substack. Current political discourse tends to spotlight society’s divisions based on race and gender. Get ready to deal more … Continue reading →

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God Unplugged: The ‘Remember Me’ Tour

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Bill Schmitt

This commentary first appeared in “Phronesis in Pieces,” at billschmitt.substack.com, on Feb. 27, 2023. As Lent 2023 begins, it’s time to book another tour with God. Such excursions can be customized—by Him, not us. He’ll give us glimpses of glorious … Continue reading →

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On World Communications: Love is News We Can Use

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Bill Schmitt

An updated version of this commentary will be posted today as a special edition of “Phronesis in Pieces” at billschmitt.substack.com. Pope Francis, posting his 2023 World Communications Day message, has reinforced the sense of urgency and purpose he consistently connects … Continue reading →

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Priest’s Word to the Wise: Love to Study, Study to Love

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Bill Schmitt

This book review first appeared in The Tablet, newspaper of the Brooklyn Diocese, on Dec. 3, 2022. “Theology” can be an off-putting, academic word. But a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn has emerged on a mission to enrich Catholics’ … Continue reading →

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Game of Kings, King of Games

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Bill Schmitt

First published in “Phronesis in Pieces” at billschmitt.substack.com on Dec. 19, 2022. The world of political reporting groans with a desperate need for graduates of the Shelby Lyman School of Journalism. This is a problem because there is no Shelby … Continue reading →

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The Abstract Arts, Framing Reality

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Bill Schmitt

Published 10/28/22 at billschmitt.substack.com, reprinted here with some modifications. Previously on Substack … We talked about the “Brights” as a movement of liberal atheists who introduced themselves in a New York Times commentary in 2003 and continued promoting their doctrines of illumination. Those ideas … Continue reading →

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