Saturday, April 28, 2018

"the material nature of men having been . . . made an enemy of sin"

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"His nature or essence is double, because as mediator between God and men (1 Tim 2.5), he must fittingly restore the natural relations...
Monday, April 23, 2018

The indefectibility of Rome as ensured by "the complex structure of the ecclesial constellation itself"

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"As the guardians of orthodoxy, the best among [the popes] sometimes found themselves obliged to resist [heretical] emperors to the...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

"Nature, invoked at the beginning against convention, has itself become a convention."

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     "Rights are detatched from nature and thus without any anchor.  They multiply and proliferate in a chaotic profusion.  As original...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Syria as "willing to fight to the last Egyptian"

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     "The [Syrian] shelling of Israeli settlements escalated meanwhile, reaching various levels of lethality throughout the [second] da...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

"A song is a thing of joy; more profoundly, it is a thing of love."

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"Canticum, res est hilaritatis; et si diligentius consideremus, res est amoris." A song is a thing of gaiety; and, if we reflect...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Countervailing institution

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"In [Slezkine's] account, the Soviet experiment failed, half a century before the country's actual collapse, because it neglect...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Catastrophes in law

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     "When the laws regulating human society are so formed as to come into collision with the nature of things, and in particular wit...