Saturday, July 13, 2019

"Being in dialogue should not be confused with authentic vitality. In fact, dialogue is not always a sign of vitality. It’s sometimes a sign of decline, decadence, and capitulation."

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"A living Thomism must not only transmit the integral knowledge of principles, but also engage contemporary issues in the service of ev...
Friday, July 12, 2019

"We must esteem them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject"

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"And since in choosing or rejecting opinions of this kind a person should not be influenced either by a liking or dislike [( amore vel...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe": The sacrament, much more so than the resurrection and ascension, demands of us a parallel (and meritorious) faith in the humanity, too

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"Thirdly, it [(the fact that the body of Christ is in this sacrament in very truth, and not merely as in a figure or sign )] belongs to...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

"If you recoil from solitude, . . . you are politically disabled"

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University Archives & Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Boston "in a society stressing as strongly as America do...

"Modern racist ideology is an Enlightenment project."

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"Just as religious believers will tell you that 'true' Christianity played no part in the Inquisition, secular humanists insist...
Friday, July 5, 2019

"Whenever it has appeared as an organized movement in modern times, atheism has always allied itself with pseudo-science."

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     John Gray, Seven types of atheism (New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), 14.  Gray himself:  "repelled by the first five va...

Theology as "enjoy[ing] a real epistemological transcendence by relation to the philosophies that it utilizes"

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"Christian theology, as St. Thomas Aquinas understands and practices it, is not philosophy [as] applied to religious questions.  It h...