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by bcadmin | Nov 11, 2022 | enlightenment, Faith, fake news, fides et ratio, News, Philosophy, reason, skepticism, St. John Paul II, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch | 0 |
Catholics are rightly fond of quoting Pope John Paul II’s opening line in his encyclical Fides et Ratio: “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 5, 2022 | Daily Quote, News, St. Thomas Aquinas | 0 |
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: ‘U…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 10, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, Autumn, Featured, News, October, Sacrament, St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica | 0 |
I sometimes joke that I sin less in October. But it might actually be true. God seems to be more on my mind during the fall, and, therefore, it seems easier to seek out and cooperate with his grace.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 5, 2022 | divinity, God, gods, henotheism, monolatry, monotheism, News, Saint Paul, St. Clement of Alexandria, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch | 0 |
There is a somewhat hot debate today about whether the Bible teaches there is only one God (monotheism) or whether God is the chief god among many gods (henotheism) but who alone should be worshiped […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 1, 2022 | Faith, fides et ratio, Jesus Christ, News, Pope John Paul II, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Apostles, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Hb 1:2-3; 2:2-4 • Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 • 2 Tm 1:6-8, 13-14 • Lk 17:5-10 “Lord, I would seek you, calling upon you—and calling upon you is an act of believing in […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 29, 2022 | anger, judgment, News, Social media, St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, The Dispatch, vice, Virtue | 0 |
Christ famously taught: “Judge not, that you be not judged” (Matthew 7:1). As Aquinas points out, Christ by no means intended to rule out all judgments about another person’s actions or character. Rather, he was […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 24, 2022 | Catechism of the Catholic Church, God the Father, Jesus Christ, Lazarus, News, parables, Pharisees, prophet amos, Sermon on the Mount, st jerome, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Am 6:1a, 4-7 • Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 • 1 Tm 6:11-16 • Lk 16:19-31 As we hear the various parables from the Gospel of Luke, it is good to keep two things […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 23, 2022 | Aquinas, Instrumentalize, News, St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, U.S. & World News | 0 |
When reflecting on and teaching about St. Thomas Aquinas or any of the great theologians or philosophers, there is a danger of using the master to promote one’s own thought, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | Featured, Natural Law, News, Philosophy, St. Thomas Aquinas | 0 |
Despite the fundamental importance of the natural law, it is often neglected, shunned, or misunderstood. We have a certain connaturality with the natural law so that a person can live and profit by it without having to philosophize. Nonetheless, it is important to shed light on the natural law, especially for those for whom it […]
by bcadmin | Aug 16, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, civil society institutions, Columns, liberal-democratic tyranny, Marxist Nicaragua arrests Catholics, Modern Catholic Social Teaching, News, Polish Solidarity, Robert Royal, Robert Royal's "What’s Happening to Civil Society?", Ryszard Legutko, St. Thomas Aquinas, Subsidiarity, The Catholic Thing, totalitarianism | 0 |
The Marxist government of Nicaragua placed a Catholic bishop and several priests under house arrest last week and closed a…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 19, 2022 | 2022, Anselm of Canterbury's ontological proof, Blaise Pascal, Brad Miner, Brad Miner's "To Live Is to Choose", Columns, God’s grace, Is 64:3 and 1Cor 2:9-10, News, Pascal's Pensées, Pascal’s wager, Rem viderunt causam non viderunt, St. John Henry Newman, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Catholic Thing, wager gin that God exists | 0 |
I was reading the description in a very fine novel of a death and burial when the thought crossed my…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 17, 2022 | Aidan Nichols, Corpus Christi, Essay, Features, Holy Eucharist, Jesus Christ, News, Pope Urban IV, Real Presence, Sacraments, spiritual union, St. Thomas Aquinas | 0 |
Before establishing the feast of Corpus Christi in 1264, Pope Urban IV called upon the services of St. Thomas Aquinas for the composition of prayers and hymns for the liturgical celebration of the feast. These […]
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