Thursday, March 26, 2020

Pseudo-Luther?

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"He is a bad tree and cannot produce good fruit; a dunghill, and can only exhale foul odors. He is so thoroughly corrupted that it is a...

Pseudo-Luther?

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     " The woman’s will, as God says, shall be subject to the man, and he shall be master (Gen. iii. 16); that is, the woman shall not ...
Monday, March 23, 2020

"There is ultimately no 'non-integralist' position."

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"Political philosophy may be its own science with its own principles, as scholastics like to say, but these principles rest on the ofte...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

"I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance infect and pollute others, and so cause their death as a result of my negligence."

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"This is said as an admonition and encouragement against fear and a disgraceful flight to which the devil would tempt us so that we wou...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Dr. Larry Chapp on Dorothy Day

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"many of [the many Catholic Worker houses and farms still in existence] really no longer identify as Catholic in any meaningful way. Th...
Monday, March 16, 2020

"at least spiritually": that other extra Catholicum ("Since I cannot now receive Thee sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart")

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"My Jesus, I believe that Thou art present in the Blessed Sacrament.  I love Thee above all things and I desire Thee in my soul.  Since...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Quarantine as cloister: "'experienced populations,' well-organized institutional responses, . . . [integrally] resourceful strategies for survival"

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Times of Israel "One of the chapters of [St. Charles Borromeo’s] Constitutiones [et decreta de cura pestilentiae] is devoted to spi...