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Gratitude
St. Thomas writes: It is only right that we should be grateful not merely to those whom we think have found the truth and with whose views we agree by following them, but also to those who, in the search…
Tagged with: Aquinas, charity, disagreements, discover the truth, gratitude, truth
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Charity, Humility, Uncategorized
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Charity, Humility, Uncategorized
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
Another Newman Quote of the Day
My first elementary lesson of duty is that of resignation to the laws of my nature, whatever they are; my first disobedience is to be impatient at what I am, and to indulge an ambitious aspiration after what I cannot…
Yes, we have no bananas
Nobody’s perfect. That includes ministers of the local ecclesial communities and Catholic parishes. Some folks would have us believe that it is intolerable for any cleric ever to sin, and that those ministers who habitually do wrong prove that Christianity…
Tagged with: apologetics, ministerial scandals, morality, pastors, sin, truth
Posted in Apologetics, Catechism, Ecclesiology, Veritatis Splendor
Posted in Apologetics, Catechism, Ecclesiology, Veritatis Splendor
No peace for individualists
Quoth the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church: Those who proclaim themselves to be the sole measure of realities and of truth cannot live peacefully in society with their fellow men and cooperate with them. (CSDC §142) Truth…
Tagged with: catholic, individualism, libertarianism, peace, social doctrine, truth
Posted in Charity, Faith, Fides et Ratio, Magisterium, Revelation
Posted in Charity, Faith, Fides et Ratio, Magisterium, Revelation
You know what I’m saying?
Brilliance.
Overheard at Mass
During the homily today our pastor quoted the following from the majority opinion of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Lawrence v. Texas: At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of…
That’s what I keep saying
If the Church, the faithful guardian of truth, lose the truth, by whom shall the truth be found? —St. Francis de Sales Exactly. And this is why Protestantism destroys any hope whatsoever of ever discovering revealed truth: because the Protestant…
Tagged with: divine revelation, truth
Posted in Apologetics, Ecclesiology, Epistemology, Fides et Ratio, Infallibility, Lumen Gentium, Protestantism
Posted in Apologetics, Ecclesiology, Epistemology, Fides et Ratio, Infallibility, Lumen Gentium, Protestantism
Aquinas, Etc. 
No room for black-or-white thinking
Posted in Charity, Comment Guidelines, Fides et Ratio