Saint Thomas and Merit
(Here is, for your perusal, Saint Thomas' teaching on charity - or divine-like love, 'willing the good' - is the principle of merit, rather...
Sympathetic Nature
MANY PASSAGES in Scripture, both the Old and the New Testaments, are disconcertingly violent, as in today’s Gospel:
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom...
The Thirty Third Sunday’s Eschaton
Beware that you are not led astray (Lk. 21:8). ⧾
The sacred liturgy again today directs our attention to the eschaton, the teaching about the...
From Marx to Gaia
People who are not governed by God
Will be ruled by tyranny.
William Penn
What an extraordinary convergence of events. As the Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky lay...
The Lawyer Who Put the Logic of Darwinism on Trial: Phillip E. Johnson’s Gift...
On the first of November, at the age of 79, Phillip E. Johnson died at his home in California. Johnson was a gifted author...
Unnatural Family Planning
In a conclave of atheists, agnostics, and secular progressives, a seminar to discuss the human sexual drive would certainly speak about the most anatomically...
The Eucharistic Reign of Christ
‘Truly, I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise’ (Lk. 23:43). ⧾
From the moment that Our Lord spoke these words, the...
God love you, Fulton J. Sheen
Da per matrem me venire
Grant that I may come to Thee through Mary.
(Motto of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen)
The good people of Peoria Illinois are...
A Liturgical Primer for Advent
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (Lk. 21: 36).
The first Sunday of Advent marks...
The Baptist and the Second Sunday of Advent
Angelus, Second Sunday of Advent, 7 December 2003
1. "Prepare the way of the Lord, clear him a straight path" (Lk 3: 4).
This invitation of...