The top row is composed of images of Catholic saints, leaders and thinkers who have shaped the Church’s attitude toward the social, political and cultural spheres:
(L to R) – Pope John XXIII, St. Thomas Aquinas, Oscar Romero, Pope Pius XI, St. Thomas More, Pope Paul VI, G.K. Chesterton, Pope Innocent III, St. Augustine, Pope John Paul II, St. Basil the Great, Pope Benedict XVI, Dorothy Day, Pope Leo XIII, Michael Novak, J.R.R. Tolkien, Bl. Teresa of Calcutta, St. Maximus the Confessor, David L. Schindler, and St. Francis of Assisi
The bottom row is composed of images of significant political thinkers, cultural leaders and social critics who have shaped the world in which we live and to whose ideas we must respond with Christ’s message. They are the originators and revolutionaries, so to speak, of our contemporary ideas of democracy, captialism, despotism, communism, distributism, utilitarianism, liberteriansim and critical theory:
(L to R) – Alexander Hamilton, Simón Bolívar, Adam Smith, Niccolò Machiavelli, John Locke, Jürgen Habermas, Karl Marx, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Plato, Ludwig von Mises, J.S. Mill, Martin Luther King, Jr., Aristotle, Hannah Arendt, Vladimir Solovyov, Thomas Hobbes, Bono and José Ortega y Gasset
These figures, among others, collectively represent the matrix in which responsible and informed socio-political discourse occurs, where faith and practical reason may truly flourish.
April 5, 2008 at 1:18 pm
What? Not ONE Jesuit? But we assassinated Lincoln, secretly run the Vatican AND the US postal service!
April 6, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I have enjoyed your site thus far, but with regards to the banner… Bono? In the same row as Marx, Locke, Rousseau, et. al? What major treatise on philosophy or political theory has Bono written?
September 30, 2008 at 12:46 am
I realize this could probably be manifested in Dr. King, but how is Gandhi not up here?
September 30, 2008 at 9:12 am
What major treatise on philosophy or political theory has Bono written?
Dude, The Joshua Tree rules.
November 15, 2008 at 9:07 pm
You should have put Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and John Lennon in the bottom of the banner if you are going to put Bono there. ;)
jn
November 15, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Could also use some more women and dudes who aren’t white. :)