Author Archives: Admin @ School of Thinking

What is the pedagogy of the Luciani School? Luciani Pedagogy has a provenance going back three major training influences: the School of Thinking online; The Scheyville Military Method; the Preventive System of the Society of Saint Francis de Sales. The three influences: • the School of Thinking online; • the Scheyville Military Method; • theContinue reading “The Pedagogy of the Luciani School”

The Learn-to-Discern Project is to train 100,000 Discernment Instructors to teach the cognitive skill of discernment to Catholic thinkers and others around the world. You can enrol here in the ten-lesson course (a lesson a day). You can do it once or repeat many times and all in your own time and place. You mayContinue reading “The ‘Learn-to-Discern’ Project”

Virtue-signalling (VS) is feeling morally superior, by virtue signalling, that one is holier-than-thou. But is it a sin? VS synonyms are: • judgmental • moralistic • pearl-clutching • preachy • priggish • sanctimonious • self-righteous WBG: Do a WBG on this proposition: Virtue-signalling (VS) is feeling morally superior, by virtue signalling, that one is holier-than-thou. But is it a sin?

Pope Francis was asked how he imagines hell if he really believes God forgives everyone who asks. “It’s difficult to imagine it,” the pope said. “What I would say is not a dogma of faith, but my personal thought: I like to think hell is empty; I hope it is.” One interpretation of the EmptyContinue reading “Is Hell Empty?”

The Luciani School will hold the first Roman Tutorial by the Founder, Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson from Melbourne, Australia. Pope Francis said in Laudato Si‘, para 61 that, “On many concrete questions, the Church has no reason to offer a definitive opinion; she knows that honest debate must be encouraged among experts, while respecting divergent views.”Continue reading “Rome 2023, November 28”

The theory of Free Will is the cognitive ability to choose between different possible courses of action, unimpeded. The idea of Free Will is closely linked to the concepts and behaviours of praise and culpability which apply only to actions that are freely chosen. Without impediment. Whether free will exists in humans is one of longest running debates of philosophy andContinue reading “Does AI Have Free Will?”

When a NASA robot scooped a cup of gravel from an asteroid 200 million miles away, scientists were stunned. Bennu, an ancient space island the size of the Empire State Building, didn’t look or behave like they thought it would. Early temperature readings led them to believe it would be covered in tiny pebbles. Instead, closeup images showed boulders andContinue reading “NASA needed help with a mission. The Vatican came to the rescue.”

It is the intrinsic claim of the Roman Church to be Catholic, not monolithic.  That’s why there are many ways to be Catholic, as history has recorded. Contemporary evidence of this axiom is the current Synod on Synodality. The bishops are certainly not speaking with one voice and nor are all the other participants. There isContinue reading “Synod on Synodality”

ROME – If the “smiling pope,” John Paul I, were alive today, he would stand as a counter-example to a social media-driven culture of “followers” and “likes,” according to the Church official in charge of his sainthood cause, refusing to sacrifice truth on the altar of popularity. The “smiling pope,” John Paul I Italian CardinalContinue reading “Cardinal extols Pope John Paul I as antidote to toxic culture of social media”