Dr. Judea Pearl, professor of computer science at UCLA, is the father of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was executed by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in 2002. In this article Dr. Pearl speaks about Daniel's life as a journalist, and about the Daniel Pearl Foundation which includes people from all religions and cultures—Christians, Jews, and Muslims...
Sidney Gottlieb is Professor of Media Studies at Sacred Heart University. This is a slightly revised version of a talk delivered on March 1, 2006, at Sacred Heart University as the inaugural Honors Program Lecture.
This is a lightly edited transcription of the talk delivered by Sister Prejean at Sacred Heart University on October 31, 2000, sponsored by the Hersher Institute for Applied Ethics and by Campus Ministry.
Rebecca Abbott is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Sacred Heart University.
Anthony J. Cernera is President of Sacred Heart University.
Joan K. Johnson is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Communications Faculty at Sacred Heart University.
Sacred Heart University Commencement Week 1995 Awards Night Baccalaureate Address. Michelle C. Loris is Professor of English at Sacred Heart University.
Pope John Paul's encyclical deals with themes of utmost concern to all of us. It confronts many of the questions of ethics and morality that address the ethical malaise pervading our contemporary society and is a profound analysis and evaluation of modernity offering a significant and comprehensive alternative. As such it not only concerns the faithful among the Catholic Church...
In this chapter of the encyclical the Pope responds to the basic question of morality: "How can obedience to universal and unchanging moral norms respect the uniqueness and individuality of the person and not represent a threat to his freedom and dignity?
John Berkman writes about the first and third chapters of John Paul II's encyclical Veritatis Splendor. The first chapter is a study of the nature of Christian discipleship, examined through the lens of St. Matthew's account of Jesus
Toni Morrison's novel Jazz wrestles with the problem of romantic love and desire. Using the framework of a violent, adulterous love affair, Jazz dramatizes the displacement of the female self in romantic love. Morrison's story shows that while romantic love is a desire for mutual recognition and must allow for sameness and difference to coexist simultaneously, in a social system...
The essays in this issue of the Sacred Heart University Review, by Dr. Michelle Loris, Dr. Mariann Russell, and Dr. Angela DiPace celebrate the superlative work of a major American novelist, Toni Morrison.
Book review by Robin McAllister. Gottlieb, Sidney, ed. Approaches to Teaching the Metaphysical Poets. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1990. ISBN 9780873525299; 9780873525305 (pbk.)
This paper was presented as a talk to the Sacred Heart University Philosophy Club on April 25, 1991.
Maggie Scarf presents a paper on the research for her book Intimate Partners, a book about marrriage. The statistics show that one in two first marriages end in divorce; the prospect for remarriage is even worse. She discusses the technique of writing a genogram, a history of each partner's emotional relationships, all the way back to childhood, to see the origins of how marriage...
Louis D. Grey reviews the book Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences by John Allen Paulos. New York: Hill & Wang, 1988. By "innumeracy
Monika Hellwig poses questions. What is specifically Catholic? What makes Catholic individuals, institutions, traditions, practices, characteristically Catholic? How do those characteristics relate to the Catholic Church as Church, as institution and as community, and as a community of witness to others? How can we pass that on when we no longer have the inclusive shaping of the...
Maggie Scarf presents a paper on the research for her book Intimate Partners, a book about marrriage. The statistics show that one in two first marriages end in divorce; the prospect for remarriage is even worse. She discusses the technique of writing a genogram, a history of each partner's emotional relationships, all the way back to childhood, to see the origins of how marriage...
In this essay Christopher Lasch characterizes two cultures in society, one a culture of possibility and abundance and the other the culture of limits and constraint. He exemplifies this conflict of cultures by discussing views on abortion and family policy by the two groups. The conflict of cultures is more a class confict than a political party conflict. The author's intent as...
Jacqueline Rinaldi reviews the book Thought and Vision: A Critical Reading of H.D.'s poetry by Angela DiPace Fritz. She calls this book, the first full-length study of H.D.'s poetic achievement, an important and engaging book. It contains a chronological study of H.D.'s fifty year poetry career, with the most complete poem-for-poem explication yet published.
Father David Tracy speaks about his belief that American Catholic religious and intellectual life are strong today and promising for the future. He uses the reflections of John Henry Cardinal Newman to illustrate that different Christian interpretations of Catholicism are possible in the face of different life and cultural experiences, while still maintaining unity within the...
Dan Wasserman, syndicated political cartoonist for the Boston Globe, speaks about his political caricatures of Reagan, Bush, Dukakis, and others, much of it during the 1988 election campaign. This talk was delivered at Sacred Heart University on November 15, 1988 as part of a lecture series dedicated to the memory of Daniel Friedman Gottlieb and Max Dickstein.