“Because of a radically new idea of nature, first promulgated by Galileo, Descartes, and Bacon in the early seventeenth century, modern thought has come to teach the uselessness of natural knowledge for ethics. Science deliberately broke with ordinary human experience and gained knowledge through the mathematization of nature. It rejected natural teleology, the belief that living things are purposive and goal-directed beings, who pursue naturally given ends, fulfillments, or purposes . . .”

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Leon Kass, M.D. “The Hungry Soul”

 

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Saturday Text and Talk: Themes of the American Founding.

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May 12: The Idea of Rights and Our Founding; Mr. Jeff Turner
May 19: Natures’s God and the 1st Amendment; Dr. James Patrick
May 26: Civil War Amendments and a New Nation; Mr. Robert M. Randolph
June 2: General Welfare & Catholic Social Thought; Dr. Thomas Watts
Lecture and Luncheon: 11 am – 12:30. Lunch at noon.

The Music of Gershwin with Thomas Shivone. June 2.

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Celebrate an American classic, the music of composer George Gershwin, with The Walsingham Society at this special concert featuring bass-baritone, Thomas Shivone of the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia. Mr. Shivone will be joined by guests Allison Sanders and Joshua Stewart, also from the Curtis Institute. Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. More information here: Gershwin concert

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