Liber locorum communium

The mysterious stranger in the Epilogue to Cormac McCarthy's Cities of the plain ( The Border trilogy: All the pretty horses, The cross...

"for this reason, these elements, perceived as 'goods' by some, are not 'benedictable,' I would argue, because they are...

"Neither the Old nor the New Testament knows any clear difference between 'moral' and 'doctrinal' reality.  The terms ...

"When Jacob blesses his grandsons, he does so not to provide them with a new ring of protection in a dangerous world but to bring on th...

"if we do not know ourselves in the waking world what chance in dreams?" The mysterious stranger in the Epilogue to Cormac McCar...

"'Were I only to lift my finger I could have twenty-five thousand of [the Indians] sweep into this city and, even with their bare h...

"In general, it is not permitted to provoke the persecutor."  Indeed, Hurtado's comment on "the famous canon of the Counc...