Crawford Barton: Badlands, San Francisco, 1977

reading through a primer on karl rahner's theology and isn't his theory of the transcendent person/knowledge just aquinas's uncaused-cause theory but from the perspective of the person/an a priori logic

Vittoria Ceretti & Mona Tougaard by Sebastian Faena

- 032c Magazine, Summer 2023

wish i was a late republican roman girl

i would listen to speeches by cicero at the rostra. i would read caesar's commentaries on the gallic war in the roman forum. i would fear invasions from the germanic tribes. i would marry a man with a purple bordered toga and distinguished ancestors and follow the mos maiorum. i would get proscribed and have my property confiscated and be declared an enemy of the state

Bacchus and Ariadne by Eustache Le Sueur (French, 1616-1655), (about 1640), oil on canvas, 175.3 x 125.7 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[F]reedom is not something which one has, like a motor in a car, a tool which can operate for good or evil according to circumstances. It is, rather, who one is as one creates oneself in time and relationships, the person one has already become, and the person one proposes to be in the future. * * * [O]ur most original freedom has to do with the disposition of ourselves as whole persons. Our individual acts of freedom, from the most insignificant choices to important decisions about vocation, career, marriage, and family are truly free only inasmuch as they mediate and concretize our transcendental freedom. [. . .] As Rahner characteristically says, freedom is not the ability to do this or that, but the power to decide about and actualize ourselves.

"Starting with the Human", Anne E. Carr, in A World of Grace: An Introduction to the Themes and Foundations of Karl Rahner's Theology (Leo J. O'donovan ed. 1995)

Henry Jones Thaddeus (1859-1929) "The Wounded Poacher" Oil on canvas Realism Located in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Bryan LeBoeuf, Age of Man, 2003

A Marriage in Extremis, 1868

François Marie Firmin Girard, 1838-1921

St John of God sister checking blood smear, Derby Leprosarium, 1948

Catherine of Siena, Prayer 10 (1379) (Noffke trans.)

deleting files makes me so scared what if i Needed That