Friday, July 18, 2025

Grammatical gender

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"Gender has the same root as genre and genus, so, in a grammatical context, refers to the category [or class] of a noun. . . .  English...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

My flesh (viscera), summoned to the resplendent (ignea) stars

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Ian Norman "Yea, it is even granted to restore the dead flesh [(viscera)] after its decease, and once again from its tomb the old form ...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

"a deficiency inherent to the Latin races"

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"The condition of Mexico, little satisfactory as it may appear, when compared to our own Republic, is greatly improved from what it was...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Martin Luther on the deserving and undeserving poor

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      "In the second place, this '[Give to] everyone' [(Mt 5:42)] does not mean someone who has or can have enough.  There are,...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

"Man's greatness even in his concupiscence, from having known how to draw an admirable moral order from it and make it into an image of charity"

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"Man's greatness even in his concupiscence.  He has managed to produce such a remarkable system from it and make it the image of tr...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

"When he took our flesh he dedicated the whole of its substance to our salvation”

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"quod de nostro assumpsit, totum nobis contulit ad salutem." What he assumed of ours, the whole [of it] he bestowed upon us for [o...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

How reliable was Mrs. Norman P. Judd, reminiscing approximately twenty six years after the event?

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"'Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day!  No, no, ....