A Schall Report on Things Current and Otherwise




A Schall Report on Things Current and Otherwise | Fr. James V. Schall, SJ | Catholic World Report


Thoughts on moving across the country, teaching, universities, and popes.

Basically, I
packed up my worldly goods at the Jesuit Community in Georgetown, gave many
things away, and shipped other books here to Los Gatos. I flew via San Jose
here on the first day of spring. It is a beautiful place. About seventy retired
or infirm Jesuits live here, many old friends and classmates whom I have but
rarely seen over the years.


What have I been
doing? Once I was set up with the normal household things, the staff and my
nephews set me up with a computer. I can still use my Georgetown e-mail. So the
world is suddenly as close or as far away as it was in Washington.


So
far, I checked the galleys of two books which are hopefully to be out in the
fall. One is entitled, Rational Pleasures,
to be published by Ignatius Press. I wrote this book while recovering from my
jaw cancer operation during the Spring Semester 2010 when I was not teaching.
The second is called, Political Philosophy and Revelation: A Catholic
Reading
, to be published in the fall by the
Catholic University of America Press. In many ways, this book is the summation
of my thinking about the nature, extent, and purpose of political philosophy,
where it fits into the “order of things”.


Also, I put
together for Jameson Books a manuscript entitled Schall at Georgetown: On
Being Liberally Educated
. This collection
contains essays that I wrote in The Hoya, Utraque Unum, and other Georgetown journals over the years. It
includes the “Last
Lecture,”
that was delivered last December 7 in Gaston Hall. The book is a
reflective summation of what I was doing, or at least thought I was doing,
during my many years at Georgetown. It reflects the memorable influence that
students, colleagues, and friends have had on my thinking about what makes
sense in the world.


Someone asked if I
would return for Georgetown graduation in May. My answer was: “Alas, I shan’t
be able to return for graduation. Missing it will break my heart, but not half
as much as being there.”


Having left a
place for a time, what does one miss?


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