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Articles by James Patrick

About James Patrick

James Patrick is a teacher and sometime apologist, founder and chancellor of the College of Saint Thomas More in Fort Worth, 1981-2011, and presently Senior Fellow of the Dallas-based Companions of Christ the Teacher, a society which seeks to promote and exemplify teaching, especially teaching the great heritage of Christian wisdom, as a work of mercy and a God-given vocation. His books include studies of Oxford philosophy, early American collegiate education, and the Gospel of John.

Reflections from the ruins

September 2, 2018 James Patrick 21

The reform will begin when the Church again unambiguously teaches the Gospel complete. […]

Law and Lawfulness, Obedience and Justice

October 17, 2015 James Patrick 0

When a moral norm that had been honored in Christendom for two millennia came tumbling down, to my knowledge only one person in any official position, a county court clerk in Ashland, Kentucky, protested its […]

Why They Do It

August 4, 2015 James Patrick 0

An early account of the shooting of four marines and one policeman reports that the day before his July 16th shooting rampage Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez was researching internet sites that encouraged martyrdom for the sake […]

The Culture of Grievance and the Necessity of Gratitude

May 15, 2015 James Patrick 0

The problem posed by the Baltimore riots is not racial but endemic, for it is the problem of a society that is too often aggrieved. The background for this culture of grievance is egalitarianism, the […]