by margaritamooney | May 1, 2018 | Catholic Social Teaching, Happiness, Human Flourishing, Public Events, Sociology of Religion
Introductory remarks as moderator at the Giussani Series on Faith and Modernity event “Can a Modern Person Still Reasonably Believe in Divinity?” Tonight we gather as a way of recalling the life and writings of Luigi Giussani. Fr. Luigi Giussani is well-known as the...
by margaritamooney | Apr 15, 2018 | Catholic Social Teaching, Happiness, Human Flourishing, Intentional Communities
“I won’t get anything done this weekend!”, I lamented to a friend over lunch the day before I took a group of students to Regina Laudis, a women’s Benedictine monastery, for the weekend. Then I listed for her all the work I felt I could have been doing that weekend:...
by margaritamooney | Sep 3, 2015 | Critical Realism, Happiness, Human Flourishing, Virtues
Is Viktor Frankl’s life a story of resilience or vulnerability? It’s both, I think. Frankl survived the Nazi concentration camps and went on to an influential career as a psychiatrist and writer. Yet, he never forgot how his experiences of pain and...
by margaritamooney | Feb 6, 2015 | Happiness, Higher Education, Human Flourishing
On September 16, 2014, I published this article in Public Discourse. College students, like everyone else, want to be happy. Educators should help them ground this desire for happiness in acts of virtue. Students at a one-week seminar on happiness I co-taught recently...
by margaritamooney | Feb 6, 2015 | Catholic Social Teaching, Human Flourishing
On May 8, 2014, I published this article in Public Discourse: “Balancing career and family should not be framed as a women’s issue. All people—male or female, married or single—must draw boundaries between their work and their personal life, for their own good...
by margaritamooney | Jun 17, 2013 | Human Flourishing, Sociology in General
This post originally appeared on the Black, White, & Gray blog. Sitting in his office perched above the hills in Berkeley, California, yesterday I got to meet one of the legends of sociology: Robert Bellah. Among other accomplishments, Bellah’s co-authored book...
