Sunday, July 15, 2012

"'the Devil is stupid.' Because of that, the Devil can only get his way with the help of stupid Catholics."

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     George W. Rutler, quoting St. John Vianney, in "Post-comfortable Christianity and the election of 2012," Crisis magazine, Ju...
Monday, July 9, 2012

"laws and decrees enacted in contravention of the moral order, and hence of the divine will, can have no binding force in conscience"

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"The doctrine on the necessary conformity of civil law with the moral law is in continuity with the whole tradition of the Church. Thi...

Lockwood O'Donovan on the "enviably balanced, penetrating, and, most of all, faithful theological comprehension of economic life" that is medieval usury theory

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     "A favorite argument of economic historians has been that the more plausible medieval objections to lending at interest are overco...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

A right: the power of an individual to perform a lawful action

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A "subjective [(as distinguished from objective)] right [i]s the power of an individual to perform a lawful action, or in other words,...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Hiddenness is the root of the matter

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"We learn that our friend's land has been overrun by invaders or stricken by famine, or that our friend has died; or, much worse, w...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

"doctrine must be carefully distinguished from life. . . . [W]e can be lenient toward errors of life", but not toward errors of doctrine.

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"With the utmost rigor we demand that all of the articles of Christian doctrine . . . be kept pure and certain.  This is supremely nece...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

"I never saw the books!"

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Thomas Dahill, Maria Grossmann (2006), via Anne Miniver Press .      Dr. Maria Schweinberg Grossmann, on why she returned to the Andov...