Saturday, March 14, 2015

"The Catholic Church was willing to lose the kingdom of England, and by extension the entire English-speaking world, over the principle that when a first marriage is valid a second is adulterous".

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"And on communion for the remarried, the stakes are not debatable at all. The Catholic Church was willing to lose the kingdom of Englan...
Friday, March 13, 2015

misericordiae ianua

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Wikimedia Commons "O God, Who hast willed that the gate of mercy should stand open to the faithful; look on us, and have mercy upon...

"God does not will the damnation of anyone under the formality of damnation, nor anyone's death as death, because he wills all men to be saved, but he wills it under the formality of justice."

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"Deus non vult damnationem alicuius sub ratione damnationis, nec mortem alicuius inquantum est mors, quia ipse vult omnes homines salvo...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Wag more, bark less

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Isle of Thanet Gazette "I have often found that the most interesting original records of Magna Carta, as of much else, have gone un...

Smiley on Philby

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     "When Philby arrived in Moscow in 1963 he had never before actually visited the Soviet Union.  It may well have been a brutal shoc...

A free man

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"In their self-protective understanding of the duties of high office in the national security state—in their refusal to face up to and ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Domini est salus, domini est salus, Christi est salus;
Salus tua, domine, sit semper nobiscus.

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Of the Lord is salvation, of the Lord is salvation,           of Christ is salvation; May your salvation, O Lord, be always with us. ...