Brad Bursa

Some Principles from Luigi Giussani on Authentic Education In his 1973 TV short “There’s No Time for Love, Charlie Brown,” Charles Schultz issued one of my favorite critiques of contemporary, utilitarian education: Linus: What’s wrong, Charlie Brown? Charlie Brown: I just got terrible news. The teacher says we’re going on a field trip to an…

Apparently, there’s no such thing as sin anymore. I needed to fact-check a couple of points in my Ignatian Examen handout. Rather than head down to my office to get my tattered and taped Louis J. Puhl, S.J. 1951 edition of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, I thought I could do a quick Google…

A Brief Catechesis on CCC, §31-43; §51-53 Note: This is a slightly modified catechesis I wrote for the Stella Maris Become Catholic program. Picture this. You’re viewing a painting in an art gallery and you notice all sorts of things about the painting. Color. Form. Lines. Curves. You see brush strokes. You see the whole…

A lesson from lectio on the importance of silencing the tongue. She crinkled her brow. Disapproval. We were sharing reflections while praying lectio divina as a small group of adults at the parish. We were praying with Matthew 11:28–30. “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.…