Friday, May 28, 2021

"even His infirmity was the consequence of His power."

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"cuius et infirmitas fuit ex potestate."      St. Augustine, City of God xiv.9, trans. Dods.  Latin from CAG (428/83).

Scheeben on metaphysics

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"without metaphysics and speculation one cannot treat at all, worthily and exhaustively, things that by their nature belong to the high...

"For an animal such as man, what is natural is affirmed by culture." Or, perversely, not affirmed by culture.

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"money and the resurrection are opposed as two systems of possibility:  the system of the virtual and the system of the living.  I am u...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

"The good use the world that they may enjoy God; the wicked . . . that they may enjoy the world would fain use God"

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"The good use the world that they may enjoy God:  the wicked, on the contrary, that they may enjoy the world would fain use God [(boni ...
Monday, May 24, 2021

"May our hearts dream of you, | May they perceive you in sleep"

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Georges de la Tour (detail) "May our hearts dream of you, May they perceive you in sleep. . . ." "Te corda nostra somnient, t...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

St. Augustine on gravity

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"I don't care to inquire why they cannot believe an earthly [human] body can be in heaven, while the whole earth is suspended on no...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Edelstein on the Catholic roots of the "preservationist" concept of in/unalienable rights

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Stanford University      "In a superb, erudite piece of intellectual excavation, Edelstein argues persuasively that already in the late...