Dr. Peter Redpath writes,
Dear Colleagues,
As usual, I write to update you about some developments related to the Aquinas Leadership International (ALI) group, our affiliate organizations, and other groups interested in ALI’s work. If you would like me to include some information in a future monthly update, email me that request at my email address immediately below. If you have not received an email update from me previously, and/or would like to be excluded from future update announcements, simply email me at my contact address below. I will be happy to remove you from this list.
Please forward this email to anyone you think might be positively interested in receiving this information.
Finally, go to the link immediately below for additional information regarding upcoming conferences, and other announcements and events:
peterredpath@aquinasschoolofleadership.com
Best wishes,
Peter
Peter A. Redpath
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URGENT APPEAL TO DONATE IMMEDIATELY! EMERGENCY FUNDS DESPERATELY NEEDED TO HELP AQUINAS SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP COMMONSENSE WISDOM EXECUTIVE COACHING ACADEMY (CWECA) FUND SPECIAL GRAND OPENING, FALL 2021, DISCOUNT TO MEMBERS OF THE USCCB
In light of the recent letter sent to them from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/archbishop-vigano-slams-us-bishops-conference-for-claiming-biden-is-second-catholic-president
And extend a similar discount to the presidents and upper-level administrators at Georgetown, Notre Dame, and St. John's (NYC) Universities, similar institutions worldwide; and free tuition to:
His Holiness, Pope Francis!
Commenting on the USCCB's recognition of Joe Biden being elected as "the second president of the United States to profess the Catholic faith," Dr. Peter A. Redpath, CEO of the Aquinas School of Leadership, LLC remarked:
"As C.S. Lewis, Étienne Gilson, and James V. Schall, S.J., had well understood, just as science as a real genus chiefly exists in the scientific soul (psychology, psychological quality of habit/habitus and freely chosen actions of the scientist), as a real genus, the Catholic faith chiefly exists in the Catholic soul (psychology, psychological quality, habit/habitus and freely chosen actions of the Catholic soul: in that psychology).
In addition, since habits are specified by their acts, to be a Catholic president, a person would have to display in his prior political behavior: 1) a habitual tendency freely to choose to do commonsense, morally good political acts and avoid commonsense, morally evil political ones; 2) not seek to implement into social behavior activities that essentially incline to destroy, really undermine Christian/Catholic action in conformity with common sense and essential principles that enable really Christian/Catholic and common sense action to come into being, grow, and flourish in political existence, not destroy the essential principles and behavioral psychology of the very organization to which a person repeatedly and publicly celebrates being a member.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. And no organization (social, political, business, or any other) can operate at all, much less in a harmonious and healthy way, when its members mistakenly think they can really be members of this or that organization and apply in their organizational behavior contradictory opposite principles of organizational actions. Believing this can really happen defies common sense. To paraphrase Gilson, 'Common sense wisdom (philosophy) always buries its undertakers.' And this is the case whether these undertakers be ordinary people, people who purport to be religious leaders, or the organizations they purport to lead, like the Catholic Church!
To most self-defined, commonsense Christians/Catholics, and Americans with political common sense, the close-to-50-year political behavior of Joe Biden has manifested glaringly habitual tendencies toward acting politically like a neo-gnostic spiritualist, neo-Pelagian, and neo-Averroist self-promoter: someone who, when politically- and personally-expedient, wears his faith on his sleeve; but actually, in his daily political life, evinces the habitual behavior of someone out for personal and political gain who hates the real Catholic Church and real Christians. Ask the Little Sisters of the Poor who, he says 'inspire him' to run politically and who, simultaneously he says, politically he 'plans to sue.'
Apparently, some members of the USCCB and even Pope Francis find no difficulty in the Catholic faith simultaneously co-existing together with neo-gnostic, neo-Pelagian, neo-Averroistic double-truth principles in the soul of Joe Biden, and being the predominant proximate principles of his lifelong professional political behavior.
Biden's professional political life displays that of a man who: 1) believes that two truths exist: a public, psychologically Enlightened and progressive, scientific, political one, and a private and psychologically and scientifically backward, religious one; 2) that these two truths can essentially and simultaneously contradict each other and exist as such in his soul; and 3) when and if they do conflict in really possible choices, he must always side with psychologically Enlightened, public, scientific political truth over psychologically backward, unscientific, religious truth. His essentially irrational and psychologically unscientific and backward faith can never influence his essentially rational and psychologically scientific and political reason.
In some miraculous way, apparently, some Eminences who glory in the name Catholic Bishops and His Holiness find no rational absurdity in such a Catholic political and individual psychology, anymore than they do maintaining the false claim that Biden was actually recently elected president of the United States. Could the reason for this nonsensical claim chiefly be that, with all due respect, this inclines to be the psychological constitution of some Eminent Catholic Bishops and His Holiness themselves? Could Eminent Catholic Bishops, even His Holiness, be that lacking in Catholic/Christian, even ordinary human religious and political, common sense?
Impossible, you say? Who could dream of such a reality? How about James V. Schall, who, shortly before he died in 2019, sent me this short email message:
'Trump is so much smarter and shrewder than his critics. No wonder he is enjoying it all.'
And who, when I asked him what, more than anything else, could fix the problems in the US Catholic Church, gave me this immediate reply:
'All we need is one good bishop.'
And who (given the fact that most of them have been educated at Catholic universities like Georgetown, Notre Dame and St. John's [NYC]) should be surprised that this might really be the prevailing psychology of these religious leaders?
Not Fr. Schall, I surmise, who, I suspect, would agree that the US finally has had that one good bishop he spoke about: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò.
And not my former parish priest, and still friend, Fr. Frank Pavone, someone (as the link immediately below indicates) like Fr. Schall, is one good priest steeped in commonsense wisdom: https://youtu.be/dC-uihpqWOM
I urge some USCCB members, upper-level Catholic university administrators worldwide, to take advantage of this CWECA discount, and Pope Francis the free tuition offer, while they are still available; and I thank them for everything they have done in the past and continue to do to guarantee that the CWECA program cannot help but prosper and grow by leaps and bounds in the near and distant future: Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat!
From a commonsense wisdom perspective, which makes more common sense: that the sort of behavior of Pope Francis toward American Catholics described above and his recent behavior toward Chinese Catholics and Cardinal Joseph Zen are acts conceived 1) by an ex-Buenos Aires bar bouncer and janitor, or 2) career Deep State Vatican bureaucrats, canon lawyers?
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IF YOU MISSED THE ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT CWECA'S FOUNDING:
See the note immediately below from Jude P. Dougherty about the Aquinas School of Leadership Commonsense Wisdom Executive Coaching Academy (CWECA):
Dear Peter,
Permit me to express my amazement as your new academy takes shape. You have brought together an outstanding group of Catholic scholars to discuss the fundamentals of Western culture.The ten courses that I have examined are a virtual encyclopedia. The Catholic faith is under attack by a hostile media that is not even pagan. The pagans did not reject Christ, they did not know Christ. Modernity rules the air waves and the visual media. The Church needs the philosophical defense of its word and culture. Obviously, to defend the Church is to defend Western culture, bur readers need to be made aware of the treasure they have in this culture. If I read your intent correctly, it is to make all who are interested understand that treasure. I heartily endorse your efforts. May you succeed beyond all expectations. That is my prayer.
Jude
Jude P. Dougherty
Dean Emeritus
School of Philosophy
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
USA
New information about CWECA:
(1) to date, 30 commonsense wisdom educational consultants have started to develop, or have expressed interest in developing, syllabi and/or topics and programs to offer courses in commonsense wisdom at CWECA, including:
Owen Anderson (Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Arizona State University)
Colonel Adam Barborich (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka/Research Scholar, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, specialist in metaphysics/ethics/religious studies/Buddhism/Hinduism)
Eduardo Bernot (as of 1 January 2021, Chair of the Online Graduate Christian Wisdom Philosophy Program at Holy Apostles College and Seminary)
Scott J. Bloch, P.A. (Former Executive of the Office Special Counsel to the United States)
Robert Delfino (Professor of Philosophy, St. John's University, NYC)
Peter DeMarco (Founder and President of Priority Thinking, LLC, Rochester, NY: Executive Coach, Organizational, Ethics Facilitator, and Strategy Advisor)
Heather Erb (Professor of Philosophy, Lock Haven State University, Lock Haven, Pa.)
Richard Fafara (President of the Advisory Board of the International Etienne Gilson Society)
Kelly Fitzsimmons-Burton (Professor of Philosophy, Paradise Valley Community College, Phoenix, AZ/Founding Member of the Public Philosophy Society, General Editor of the Journal of Public Philosophy)
Daniel Fitzpatrick (Translator/Editor with Timothy Schmalz of Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio and Inferno)
John Ghostley (Educational Consultant/Author/IT Trainer)
Curtis L. Hancock (Former Joseph M. Freeman Chair of Philosophy at Rockhurst University; former President of the American Maritain Association and co-founder and President of the Etienne Gilson Socity [USA])
James Hanink (Former Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University [Los Angeles]/President American Maritain Association/Co-host of WCAT Radio Open Door)
Thaddeus Kozinski (Director of Academic Life and Teacher of Philosophy at St, Louis Obisco Classical Academy)
Rev. Dick Lincoln (Retired Pastor, Shandon Baptist Church, Columbia, South Carolina)
John Lyle, Esq. (Director of Research and Legal Affairs, Priority Thinking Institute/Member of the Board of the Chesterton Academy of Rochester, Rochester, NY)
Adam Martin (Translator Alabama/Germany Partnership, Birmingham, Alabama)
Andrew McLuhan (Director, The McLuhan Institute, Wellington, Ontario, Canada)
Arthur William McVey (Professor of Philosophy, Holy Apostles College and Seminary, Christian Wisdom Graduate Concentration)
Jason Morgan (Associate Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Reitaku University, Chiba, Japan/Co-director Aquinas School of Leadership School of Economics)
Joseph Pearce (Co-editor, St. Austin Review)
Marvin Pelaez (Founder of The Boethian Renewal/Co-director Aquinas School of Leadership School of Economics)
Angela Puglisi (Artist/Art Historian, Washington, DC)
John Rao (Associate Professor of History, Director of the Roman Forum/Dietrich von Hildebrand Institute, and former Preident of Una Voce America)
Peter A. Redpath (Founder and CEO of Aquinas School of Leadership)
Peter Phillips Simpson (Full Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
Commonsense wisdom of masters proposed to be covered include: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Confucius, Anicius Malimus Severinus Boethius, St. Aurelius Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Bonaventure, John Duns Scotus, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Marsilio Ficino, St. John of the Cross, John Poinsot, St, Ignatius of Loyola, Matteo Ricci, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, Giambattista Vico, Therese Lisieux, Charles Sanders Peirce, Hilaire Belloc, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Josef Pieper, Mortimer J. Adler, Georges Bernanos, Leon Bloy, Etienne Gilson, Jacques Maritain, Christopher Dawson, Romano Guardini, James Joyce, Rene Girard, Marshall McLuhan, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, J. R. R. Toklien, Singrid Undset, Shudaku Endo, Walker Percy, Dorothy Day, Graham Greene, John Henry Newman, Fulton J. Sheen, Dietrich von Hildebrand, James V. Schall, Raymond Dennehy, Ralph M. McInerny, Alasdair MacIntyre, John N. Deely, W. Edwards Deming, St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI.
Commonsense wisdom topics/programs to be covered include: Commonsense Wisdom from the Great Works of Western Literature; Commonsense Wisdom in Western History; Commonsense Wisdom in Papal Encyclicals; Commonsense Wisdom from the Great Works of Eastern Literature; Commonsense Wisdom in Southern U.S. Agrarian Writers; Commonsense Biblical Wisdom; Commonsense Wisdom in Confucianism; Commonsense Wisdom in Hinduism; Commonsense Wisdom in Zen Masters; Commonsense Wisdom in Miyamoto Musashi; Commonsense Wisdom of Great Japanese Catholic Authors; Commonsense Wisdom in: Aesthetics, Economics, Estimative Intelligence, Ethics, Psychology, Social Science, Leadership, Metaphysics, Politics, International Relations.
(2) Some of these courses are required for those pursuing a degree. Others are electives for those pursuing a degree OR not pursuing one. All deal with commonsense wisdom of exceptionally wise human beings from different well-known wisdom traditions.
(3) Jude Dougherty's note refers to his examination of some of these syllabi and programs developed by scholars from the Western Catholic wisdom tradition, including pagan Greek and Roman philosophers.
(4) Students who wish to enroll in courses to pursue a degree and a certificate will need to take a 15-lesson orientation course that discusses Mortimer J. Adler's masterful monograph:How to Speak. How to Listen. Students not pursuing a degree may also take this course. Whichever option a student chooses, completion of this course may later be used toward completion of degree programs, and taking it is not a mandatory requirement for taking courses within CWECA.
(5) The first orientation course will be offered asynchronously, and on a rolling basis, starting in mid-January 2021.
(6) Go to the following link for the MAY DAY! MAY DAY! announcement related to the rationale for founding CWECA: https://www.aquinasschoolofleadership.com/announcements
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Go to the link immediately below to view Fr. Peter Stravinskas's announcement about the Catholic Education Foundation's new graduate degree program for Catholic school administrators:
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Justin Streiff extends an invitation below from Americana Philanthropic:
This coming Thursday, December 3, at 4 pm ET, we're hosting our first Scotch Talks. Join Jeremy Beer, Abigail Alberti, and Matt Smith for a casual conversation on what we've learned about fundraising in 2020—how to prepare for the year ahead and apply these lessons in 2021.
Bring your favorite libation!—scotch, beer, or tea, and join us for this informal and exploratory conversation. If you have any questions you'd like to pose for the discussion, feel free to shoot me an email at justin@americanphilanthropic.com.
I look forward to having you join us!
Cheers,
Justin
Justin Streiff
Partner
American Philanthropic
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Go to the link immediately below for information about the Medieval Institute's post-doctoral fellowships
https://medieval.nd.edu/research/grants-fellowships/
Also, please send along calls and events to share with others about medieval and renaissance philosophy to
John Inglis
SMRP Sec. & Treasurer
SMRP on Twitter: @SMRPhilosophy
To renew SMRP membership click on: https://smrpblog.wordpress.com/join/
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Go to the link immediately below for information about the new Postil Magazine and its attempt to Unite Wisdom with the Soul: https://www.thepostil.com/about/
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See the information below about how to apply for a:
BOURSE D’ÉTUDE A L’UNIVERSITÉ DE TORONTO 2020-2021
Madame, Monsieur,
La Commission Fédérale des Bourses Étrangère (CFBE) décide d'accompagner les objectifs de l'Organisation Internationale pour les Migrations (OIM) en collaboration avec L'Université Toronto de Canada (U of T) et le soutien de l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) pour le respect des mesures barrières contre le COVID-19 (CORONA), lancent un appel à la candidature pour les bourses d'étude à cette année universitaire 2020 - 2021.
Ces bourses sont destinées aux ressortissants des pays en développement, des pays du tiers monde et des pays européens.
Les bourses couvrent la période d'un cycle de formation ou un maximum de six (06) semestres.
Frais de voyage: Le billet d'avion aller-retour est à la charge de la Commission Fédérale des Bourses Étrangère (CFBE).
CONDITIONS D'OCTROI DE BOURSE D'ETUDE UNIVERSITAIRE:
1- Avoir entre 18 et 50 ans au plus
2- Être de bonne moralité
3- Comprendre et parler correctement l'une des langues d'enseignement au Canada (espagnol, anglais, allemand, italien et français)
4- Être titulaire au moins du BACCALAURÉAT ou autres diplômes professionnel
Retirer de l'Université Toronto de Canada le formulaire de demande de bourse via son adresse électronique
Officielle: boursedetude.university@torontomail.com / boursedetude.utoronto@gmail.com / WhatsApp : +1 581 534 7109
NB : Laisser vos contacts whatsapp pour plus de communication
BONNE CHANCE
UNIVERSITÉ TORONTO DE CANADA
La Direction
Go to the link immediately below to apply for the 04 to 06 December 2020 Thomistic Institute's Symposium on Aquinas's 5 Ways of Proving the Existence of God:
https://thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events/symposium2020
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Go to the link immediately below to view information from the Daughters of St. Paul about upcoming online Christmas concerts:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgxwKjdxgpKMgkGTFBzLlDFXNsSvb
Also, Sr. Margaret Obrovac says to check out: www.pauline.org/virtualconcert
"Home for Christmas," the St. Paul Choir’s 2020, totally free, first-ever-online concert, will be viewable on YouTube, Thursday, December 3, at 8:00 in the evening, U.S. Eastern Time.
Of course, for us here across The Pond that translates into the wee hours of the morning on 4 December! So the sisters have graciously extended the viewing throughout the Advent/Christmas Season, so that wherever you are, you can schedule this 45-minute inspiring and entertaining musicfest whenever you’d like. In order to access it on YouTube, you will need to sign up for the updates at the above link. Be sure to watch Sr. Tracey’s 90-second invitation video, and get ready to sing your way into the season!
Donations Sponsorships for the Daughters of St. Paul annual Christmas concert requested to be given at: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/OTM4NDI=
Go to the following link to find other ways to help the Daughters of St. Paul:
A financial offering. Donate safely online: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/OTM3NjA= OR by check to "Daughters of St. Paul" (memo: "pandemic fund"): Sr. Patricia Mary Maresca, FSP / Daughters of St. Paul / 50 Saint Paul's Ave. / Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Sign up HERE for a huge Nov. 13-15, 2020 CATHOLIC MOM'S VIRTUAL SUMMIT (a percentage of your entrance fee goes to Daughters of St. Paul): choose "all access pass" where you can access all the talks even after Nov. 15 before the price goes up: https://www.cardinalstudios.org/moms-summit-home?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cardinalstudios.org%2Fa%2F34145%2FGoeb5nXt
Pray! Commit to pray for vocations to the Daughters and for our mission of spreading the Gospel through media.
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The journal Biosemiotics (https://www.springer.com/journal/12304) is expanding to include two new positions for Associate Editors:
They are especially looking for Associate Editors based in and representing scholarly communities in the regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Please send nominations or expressions of interest (no more than 2 pages), along with a briefCV, to Biosemiotics’ Editors-In-Chief Yogi Hale Hendlin (hendlin@esphil.eur.nl) and Alexei Sharov (sharov@comcast.net). Reviews will begin 20 December 2020 and will remain open until the positions are filled.
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See the information immediately below from Lewis Talbot City Internships, Founder & CEO:
+1 310 438 5329
+44 020 3808 4790
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We partner with traditional educators and leading employers across the globe to help close the skill and knowledge gaps that leave almost half of recent college graduates un- and under-employed.
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CI was founded in London, England in 2011.
Today, from its HQ in Los Angeles, CA and in partnership with leading employers across the globe, CI provides immersive and transformational experiences for students and recent graduates.
CI work-based learning programs may be undertaken in-person or remotely, and during the summer or semester, with work placements with leading employers in 9 industries and 20 locations globally.
Summer 2021 programs
Admissions for our summer 2021 programs have now been open for a little over two weeks, and we have received 600% more applications compared with the same period last year.
Accordingly, I encourage students interested in joining a summer 2021 in-person program to apply sooner rather than later here: www.city-internships.com/apply
Student aid for 2020/21
Correspondingly, we also anticipate our 2020/21 Student Aid fund to be drawn down earlier than any previous year.
And so, as well applying sooner than later, I also encourage interested students to review and secure their CI student aid awards as early as possible here:
CI Student Aid Calculator
(Our student aid, tuition rebate, and ambassador schemes, which provide non-repayable financial assistance of up to $2,013, $2,500, and $1,250 respectively, and may be combined, are applicable to all 2020/21 in-person and remote programs.)
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Go to the link immediately below to view the Acton Institute's recent announcement of US and Canadian mini-grants for research and teaching in free market economics:
https://www.acton.org/program/mini-grants-free-market-economics-scholarship-teac
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Go to the link immediately below to see the Trinity Forum's announcement of readings featuring selections from the gripping Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:
https://www.ttf.org/product/frederickdouglass/?mc_cid=3cb97250c8&mc_eid=445ac55ca4
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See link below for free online course being offered by Dallas Theological Seminary on Revelation:
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