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the future of the world stands in peril unless wiser men are forthcoming (Gaudium et Spes, 15)
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Saint Vincent of LĂ©rins and True Development of Doctrine
Here is a very good take on Saint Vincent of LĂ©rins (+445) and the complex question of the development of doctrine, on which Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman also wrote a millennium and a...
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And with regard to ourselves, how deservedly do we keep the feast of the Assumption with all solemnity. What reasons for rejoicing, what motives for exultation have we on this most beautiful day! The...
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Douglas Farrow’s Thoughts on Smudging and the Sacraments
An intriguing and insightful take here from Dr. Douglas Farrow, a fifth-generation Canadian and professor of theology and ethics at McGill university. My talk at our recent Wojtyla Conference was on the 'Sacramental Nature...
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The Empathy of Edith Stein
An intriguing take on Saint Edith Stein from the perspective of empathy, on which the saint wrote her dissertation, an important topic in our world so immersed in suffering. That said, secular authors should...
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Nagasaki’s Own Nightmare
The Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, and another one on this day, August 9th - just to make sure they got the message, we may presume - thereby obliterating...
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A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil. (Saint Dominic, +1221)
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Therefore, since each of us possesses God in his heart and is being transformed into his divine image, we also should cry out with joy: It is good for us to be here – here...
