Today’s One-Liner (#330)

Eventually, as a tribute to Maritain’s influence on me and on many others, I wrote The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain: A Spiritual Life, and I advise any reader captivated by this little sketch…

In Pursuit of Holiness

Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), a Frenchman, a layman, and a convert to Catholicism, became one of the most prominent figures in the Thomistic Revival. During World War II, the Maritains found themselves with other exiles in…

Seeking the Wise

In a touching essay, Professor Ralph McInerny recalled listening as a young man to the last lecture the French Thomist philosopher Jacques Maritain gave one autumn night in 1958 at the Moreau Seminary on the…