Saturday, April 4, 2015

We adore the cross (as, of course, an image of Christ himself) with the adoration of latria

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Blackfriars, Oxfo rd "there is a twofold movement of the mind towards an image:  one indeed towards the image itself as a certain t...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

The humility of the eternal Son

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Cod. Vat. Reg. lat. 316 , fol. 85v "O God, who by the lowliness of thy Son hast raised a fallen world: Grant to thy faithful people per...
Monday, March 23, 2015

“that entity—beloved of modern sectarians and romantics, but unknown to the early Middle Ages—‘the Celtic Church’.”

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     T. M. Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2000), chap. 6 ("The organization of the e...

"ideological extremism. . . . happens whenever a social movement requires us to deny reality. . . ."

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     R. R. Reno, "The gay movement," First things no. 252 (April 2015):  6 (4-6).
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...