Monday, April 27, 2026

Sating one's hatred under cover of correction

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"Third, he should strive in all charity to correct the sins of others, and this is indicated by the words judging without dissimulation...

"It belongs to charity to be at peace, but it belongs to wisdom to make peace by setting things in order"

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 "caritatis est habere pacem, sed facere pacem est sapientiae ordinantis."      St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae II-II.45.6.ad...
Friday, April 17, 2026

'Orthodox' means orthodox in life as well as faith

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"Orthodoxy isn’t up for negotiation, and it isn’t subject to member surveys. Nor is it cleanly detachable from moral and social questio...

for His own sake, for my sake

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"one may adhere to a thing in two ways: first, for its own sake; second, because something else is attained thereby. Accordingly charit...

"It is impossible to trust too much in the Divine assistance" properly understood (below)

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"Thus faith can have no mean or extremes in the point of trusting to the First Truth [(in hoc quod innitatur primae veritati, in this, ...

Liberal Christian nationalism

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       "There is a name for [Ryan P.] Burge's preferred cocktail of religion and civics, Church and state.  It's Christendom.  ...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

"many who are in a state of grace suffer from dullness of mind"

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"multi habentes gratiam adhuc patiuntur mentis hebetudinem."      St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae II-II.8.4.Praet 1, trans. F...