Diligite iustitiam

At Princeton in June .

The Nature of Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages A history of natural philosophy: from the ancient world to the nineteenth century

Working with elementary school students, I noticed that when asked to give definitions, students usually just give synonyms. But this is tru...

Zenit: ON ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS "If a Man Has a Great Love Within … He Endures Life’s Problems More Easily"

While I was driving home and thinking of my recent hospital experience, I asked if part of the problem was not an inordinate desire for heal...

Fr. Z: Archbp. Marchetto’s book about “School of Bologna” and interpretations of Vatican II now in English NLM

We have often received reports through the MSM of the results of surveys trying to find the world's happiest country , and so on. The ...

op-stjoseph: The Dominican Spiritual Life A talk by Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P

(via op-stjoseph )

Zenit: On Christ and the "Fullness" of the Law "What Is This Superior Justice That He Demands?"

Someone in the OLOP Young Adult Group posted this video on FB: I was a bit curious, since I had heard one of Fr. Himes's homilies a...

Robert Araujo, Law as a Moral Idea  -- a short note about  Nigel Simmond’s Law as Moral Idea . Related: Natural Law “Externalism” v. Law ...

An interview with an old friar

Aquinas argues that we should love God more than ourselves, for example in the Summa Theologiae here (with reference to the angels and the ...

from 2008

Nathan O'Halloran, SJ, Moving forward with polygenism? I note that the author writes "proved" with scare quotes? The modern ...

Ite ad Thomam: Garrigou-Lagrange: The Error of Conceiving Mysticism as "Extraordinary"

Thomistica.net: Online Aquinas Lecture from the Center for Thomistic Studies Thomistica.net includes links to Germain Grisez, “The Restles...

Thomiastica.net: Thomistic Philosophical Terms (part 3)