Abandoned is the daily prompt. So here are a few thoughts I have that are related to the idea of abandonment somehow. St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle were abandoned by Descartes. This was a colossal blunder in the history of…
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Abandoned
Tagged with: abandoned, abandonment, books, catholic, jesus, movies, music, television, the Cross
Posted in Ascent of Mt Carmel, Etc
Posted in Ascent of Mt Carmel, Etc
Music
Music is the WordPress daily prompt. I don’t remember a thing about Aquinas or Aristotle’s views of music, so I will have to go “off topic” (that never happens!) for this. 😃 At the moment I am listening to The…
Tagged with: blue danube, cranberries, Ingrid Michaelson, james ward, kubrick, more piano please, music, this is the day
Posted in Etc, Uncategorized
Posted in Etc, Uncategorized
St. Augustine on the Veneration of the Saints
As part of his critique of paganism St. Augustine in City of God condemns the tradition of making “gods” out of dead heroes and great men of the past; this is one theory as to how Rome came to have…
Tagged with: Augustine, catholic, city of God, saints
Posted in Apologetics, Augustine, Books, city of God, Saints, Western Civilization
Posted in Apologetics, Augustine, Books, city of God, Saints, Western Civilization
Ancient Quotation of the Day
I like this aphorism from Horace (quoted by St. Augustine in City of God, I.3 online here; I quote from this edition): New vessels will for long retain the taste Of what is first poured into them.
American Capitalism is Broken
American Capitalism is just plain broken. Why do I say that? Because American Capitalism has in essence declared that its god is the Almighty Dollar. And in such circumstances as these, the problem identified by Pope St. John Paul II…
Tagged with: capitalism, social doctrine, social justice, social teaching
Posted in America, Charity, John Paul II, Natural Law, Rerum Novarum
Posted in America, Charity, John Paul II, Natural Law, Rerum Novarum
Maritain on Epistemology
Maritain is a valuable antidote for the skepticism and subjectivism that is so prevalent today. Conclusion IX – The truth of knowledge consists in the conformity of the mind with the thing. It is absurd to doubt the reliability of…
Tagged with: empiricism, knowledge, maritain, philosophy of st thomas, truth
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Books
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Books
Huddled Masses
In today’s Gospel (Luke 4:16-30) the Lord Jesus demolishes the expectations of those who (not without reason) called themselves God’s chosen people. Just as Elijah was sent not to a widow of Israel but to a Sidonian woman, and just…
Tagged with: America, charity, huddled masses, immigration, statue of liberty
Posted in America, Charity, Natural Law
Posted in America, Charity, Natural Law
No longer strangers
This post is inspired by this and this. Jesus said that what is outside a man cannot make him impure or unclean. Instead, it is what comes out of a man — out of his heart — that makes him…
Tagged with: charity, clean and unclean, immigration
Posted in Charity, Veritatis Splendor, Western Civilization
Posted in Charity, Veritatis Splendor, Western Civilization
Matthew 24:42-51
Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed…
A living wage
This continues to pop up on news sites I visit. The original report does not say a whole lot about the man’s motivations although they do come across as a genuine concern for the wellbeing of his employees; this story…
Tagged with: charity, living wage, rerum novarum, social doctrine
Posted in Charity, Rerum Novarum, Western Civilization
Posted in Charity, Rerum Novarum, Western Civilization
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