Friday, March 20, 2026

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Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age (Pope Saint John XXIII)

Faith is an act of the intellect, assenting to the divine truth, by command of the will, moved by God through grace (Saint Thomas Aquinas)

A Danse Macabre of a Debate

Concerning the other night’s ‘debate’, allow me to offer the following enthymeme, a sort of summarized syllogism described by Aristotle: When a society loses faith, it loses reason. When we lose reason, we lose manners....

Denis, Leonardi and Newman

We have two saints on the universal calendar today, and one blessed yet to be put thereon, who will be canonized this Sunday. In historical order, the first is Saint Denis, patron of Paris, her...

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe (Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, +1890)

A spiritual guide should be silent when discretion requires and speak when words are of service. Otherwise he may say what he should not or be silent when he should speak. Indiscreet speech may...

All grace flows from mercy, and the last hour abounds with mercy for us. Let no one doubt concerning the goodness of God; even if a person’s sins were as dark as night, God’s...

Be not sad, for the joy of the Lord is our strength. (Nehemiah, 8:11)

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