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The Guidelines are Void
This rubbish has no legal or judicial or administrative force in the real world where we all live. Like last summer’s vacuous, vapid, and vacant SCOTUS decision, these so-called guidelines were a dead letter upon issuance. Like I said about…
Tagged with: human nature, line in the sand, natural law, orwellian, Prayer, reason, tyranny, western civilization
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Aquinas - Theology, Western Civilization
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Aquinas - Theology, Western Civilization
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.
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
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
The Decision is Void
Just so that we are all clear with respect to the SCOTUS ruling yesterday: the decision is contrary to reason, contrary to the laws of men throughout history, and contrary to the law of God. Consequently the decision is entirely…
Tagged with: civilization, constitution, moral law, natural law, null decision, scotus
Posted in America, Charity, Creation, Justice, Natural Law, Veritatis Splendor, Western Civilization
Posted in America, Charity, Creation, Justice, Natural Law, Veritatis Splendor, Western Civilization
Ideas have consequences
Where do our human rights come from? According to the Declaration of Independence, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these…
Tagged with: natural law, natural rights
Posted in America, Rerum Novarum, Veritatis Splendor, Western Civilization
Posted in America, Rerum Novarum, Veritatis Splendor, Western Civilization
Bloom where you are planted
Quoth The Author: It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose; you must start somewhere and have some roots. We Westerners are restless people. We move around (literally and figuratively) more than is probably…
Tagged with: ambition, bloom where you are planted, contentment, satisfaction
Posted in Ascent of Mt Carmel, Books, Charity, Western Civilization
Posted in Ascent of Mt Carmel, Books, Charity, Western Civilization
More proof of global warming
It snowed in June out west, just days away from the beginning of summer. Undoubtedly I am too stupid to see that this is obviously proof of global warming, just as it is also proof of global cooling, but I…
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