When we acquired Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine earlier this month, I was quite pleased, but a commentator’s question stuck with me. He said: “You know, it is amusing, but does it really contribute to a magazine whose ‘purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society’?”
My answer: Yes.
The very fact that Dr. Boli is amusing is indeed a contribution to the advancement of our purpose. Fr. James Schall’s thoughts in a recent article may shed some light: