Liber locorum communium
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Love what is admirable, but hate the sin
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"How can Dante, for example, so obviously admire his own teacher, Brunetto Latini . . . and nonetheless place him in Hell? If Bru...
Ideas have consequences
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"ideas do have a drift and a tenor of their own, and basic theological choices do have inherent costs which are not always perceptible ...
Confidence in God
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James McAuley "took from [the retired bishop of the Papuans Alain de] Boismenu one lesson above all: that pessimism, in the bishop’s w...
"When people are invited to participate in what Newman took to be the doctrines of liberalism, set to an accompaniment of polyphonic music, they stay home and watch soccer instead."
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Thomas Joseph White, "The metaphysics of democracy," First things no. 280 (February 2018): 29 (25-30) .
Friday, March 9, 2018
"'not . . . a dog's chance'"
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"During the Second World War, [John Middleton] Murry poured his energies into sustaining ['Dick'] Sheppard's pacifist ...
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