Saturday, February 25, 2017

"what was visible in our Savior has passed over into his sacraments"

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"Quod itaque Redemptoris nostri conspicuum fuit, in sacramenta transivit; et ut fides excellentior esset ac firmior, visioni doctrina ...

"What we need is not a depoliticized science but a more political science—that is, a science unembarrassed about the legitimate role of politics in resolving what we now call scientific disputes."

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     Ari N. Schulman, "Science anxiety," The hedgehog review:  critical reflections on contemporary culture 18, no. 3 (Fall 2016)...

Love, even intermediated love, will carry you

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     "Whence the power of love to conquer even the worst terrors?  In its purest form, it is the love of God.  But just as Dante could ...
Friday, February 24, 2017

"Toleration . . . is required only for the intolerable."

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     Bernard Williams, "Toleration:  an impossible virtue?" (1992), in Toleration:  an elusive virtue, ed. David Heyd (Princeton: ...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

The falcon's sole chance of hearing (and honing in on) the falconer

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"In the exitus of creatures from the First Principle one observes a sort of circulatio or regiratio [(= regyratio < re-gyro, -a...

"some notions are so fatuous that only intellectuals could possibly believe them."

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      Kyle Smith, "Immoral acts," The new criterion 35, no. 6 (February 2017):  41 (40-43) .  Smith is referring to Bertrand Russe...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

"I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth."

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     St. Thérèse of Lisieux, as quoted at CCC 956n495, which cites The final conversations, trans. John Clarke (Washington, DC:  ICS, 1977),...