Saturday, January 4, 2020

"But what one cannot do . . . is found their authority upon the authority of the Magisterium"

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"Tradition and Scripture alone contain [(Mais cela n'empêche pas la Tradition et l'Écriture de contenir seules)] the revelati...

"Harnack is in error on" the Hellenization of Christianity. "ignorance of ontology is ignorance of Christ."

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"from a historical and biblical point of view [the claim that the 'biblical, ethical Christology' of scripture was unfortunatel...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Grant, we pray, that we may feel her to [be] interceding for us

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. . . grant, we pray, that we may sense [(sentiamus)] her to [be] interced[ing] for us, through whom we were found worthy to receive the aut...

You who are "not an appraiser of merit, but a bestower of grace"

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. . . to whose fellowship grant us, we pray, admittance, [you who are] not an appraiser of merit [(aestimator meriti)], but a (liberal) be...

"Liberals have learned, at fearful cost, the lesson that absolute power corrupts absolutely. They have yet to learn that absolute liberty may also corrupt absolutely."

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Source       Gertrude Himmelfarb, On liberty and liberalism:   the case of John Stuart Mill (New York:   Knopf, 1974), as quoted by Pe...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

The blessed eternity of matter; or, rather, God is still incarnate

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"The flesh is redeemed and glorified, for the Lord has risen for ever.  We Christians are, therefore, the most sublime of materialists....

"real saints are the faithful, who have made light of the beautiful world; we here can't even make light of the ugly one."

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" Great are the people, real saints are the faithful, who have made light of the beautiful world; we here can't even make light of ...