Monday, October 09, 2017

Only a Latin Traditionalist Who Is a Thomist Could Have Written This?



Would non-traditionalist Thomists or Dominicans agree?

At any rate, the essay deserves a longer response, but I will say that charity has priority and primacy over all else. The problem may lie in St. Thomas's treatment of the virtue of religion, which may need to be reconsidered. (Can we say that religion is concerned with what is directed to the God as end, while the theological virtues are concerned with God as object, if religion is concerned with what we owe to God but charity is also owed to God?)

Saturday, October 07, 2017

Sex Differences and Intelligence

Men 4 Points Ahead

Renewal of the Liturgy

The preface Joseph Ratzinger wrote for the Russian edition of volume XI of his Opera Omnia --

Ratzinger: “Il rinnovamento della liturgia è fondamentale per il rinnovamento della Chiesa”
Pubblichiamo la prefazione di Benedetto XVI alla edizione russa del volume XI dell’«Opera omnia», edito dalla Casa editrice del Patriarcato di Mosca Nihil Operi Dei praeponatur

Zenit article

Ratzinger Foudnation


Eastern Christian Books: The Chaldean Catholic Church

Eastern Christian Books: The Chaldean Catholic Church

Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Love of Enemies

Monday, October 02, 2017

The Transfiguration of Christ

Baroque or Monastic?

Are they mutually exclusive, especially with the disappearance and revival of Benedictine monasticism in France after the French Revolution?

Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick on the Reformation

Sunday, October 01, 2017

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Roman Catholic Social Teaching Unlikely to Address This Point Any Time Soon

Crisis Magazine: Contemporary Tyranny and Catholic Social Doctrine by James Kalb

The usual view among Catholics is that public authority should look after all aspects of the common good. As a result, the social encyclicals have proposed a variety of responsibilities

Friday, September 29, 2017