Saturday, February 4, 2017

"The universe of creatures will never [be allowed to] fall back into nothingness."

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"Thomas, who recognizes without hesitation that the creature is nothing by itself, will never say that the creature is nothing in itse...

Who knew?

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 "progressive labor reformers embraced the minimum wage for its power to exclude as well as to uplift.  The minimum wage  would, more...
Thursday, February 2, 2017

Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit as Head and Heart of the Church ("Spiritus sanctus est cor Ecclesiae")

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     "Thomas was not original in speaking of the Holy Spirit as the soul of the mystical Body.  But he was alone in his epoque ( Marti...

Luke 18:11

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"There were certainly no crying Statue of Liberty memes for the Syrian Christian and Iraqi refugees who were effectively barred by the ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

"to teach half of any whole is really to teach no part of it." Or, "[Mere Christianity] is in fact no [Christianity] at all."

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"the Establishment, for instance, accepts from the Catholic Church the doctrine of the Incarnation; but at the same time denies that Ch...

"the actions of saints are not always patterns for us"

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Actions can be "indifferent in the abstract, not in the concrete.  Eating, sleeping, talking, walking, may be neither good nor bad, vie...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

The preacher as man of Sodom

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Honore Daumier, The Destruction of Sodom, c. 1850. "The living Word that enkindles and enlightens hearts is only present where the...