A report on the Aquinas-Barth conference

Op-StJoseph: Thomas Aquinas - Karl Barth Dialogue

Pope Paul VI, Honor St. Thomas by studying his thought (via Rorate Caeli)

For those who cannot receive the Holy Eucharist under either species because of allergies, would the frequent reception of the Anointing of the Sick be a suitable or permitted alternative for fostering their sacramental life?

John Finnis on the Good of Marriage

Marriage: A Basic and Exigent Good (via Mirror of Justice)

I have something in the works on the difference between "traditional" Thomistic moral theology/philosophy and the New Natural Theology regarding human goods. I maintain that in the former, the good to which we aim or which we intend is understood [primarily or exclusively] as an activity (or action), while it is understood within the NNLT as some sort of state or quasi-habit. This has an impact on the question of whether there is a single good which constitutes human happiness (and how various goods are integrated).

One could ask whether a model of practical reason is descriptive or normative. Some features of human practical reasoning are universal -- means-ends, the relationship of human desire to a (perceived) good (even if this is denied in a particular moral theory), the nature of practical reason as being focused on human action. Some aspects are present only to those educated (or raised) within a specific tradition.