Vatican II: Five views sixty years on
Everybody I know seems to be writing something on Vatican II these days and I began feeling a bit left out of the fun. So, I thought I would jump into the mosh pit of […]
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by bcadmin | Oct 16, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Features, First Things, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Joseph Ratzinger, Matthew Levering, News, progressivism, R.R. Reno, ressourcement, second vatican countil, Thomism, traditionalism | 0 |
Everybody I know seems to be writing something on Vatican II these days and I began feeling a bit left out of the fun. So, I thought I would jump into the mosh pit of […]
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 19, 2022 | Catholic educaton, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Features, interview, Jonathan Sanford, liberal arts, News, personalism, Phenomenology, Saint John Paul II, Thomism, University of Dallas | 0 |
Dr. Jonathan J. Sanford is President of the University of Dallas as well as a Professor of Philosophy. Sanford was at Franciscan University of Steubenville for thirteen years before joining the University of Dallas in […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 22, 2022 | Books, Budziszewski, Dante, Features, happiness, interview, News, Religion, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, Umberto Eco, Virtue, wealth | 0 |
Professor J. Budziszewski is the author of numerous books, including What We Can’t Not Know: A Guide (Ignatius Press), Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), as well […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 22, 2021 | Crucifixion, Essay, Eucharist, Features, Fr. Ronald Knox, Jesus Christ, Last Supper, News, sacrifice, Thomism | 0 |
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” —John 6:51 […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2021 | Columns, Features, Matthew Minerd, News, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Thomas for Today, Thomism | 0 |
Thanks to the fine work of Matthew K. Minerd a score of previously untranslated essays by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (1877-1964) are now available in English. The collection, entitled Philosophizing in Faith: Essays on the Beginning […]
Read MoreIntellectual confusion resembling a smog of the mind has been a deadening presence in Catholicism in the years since Vatican Council II. But here and there amid the swirling mists of bad arguments and lame analogies, a small yet significant body of Catholic intellectuals has stood firm in defense of clear thinking and good sense. […]
by bcadmin | Jan 5, 2021 | Alasdair MacIntyre, Aristotle, Catholic social thought, Essay, Features, Jacques Maritain, News, Plato, Polis, Pope Leo XIII, republic, Rerum Novarum, Thomism | 0 |
Since the ancient Greeks, there have generally been two opposing impulses for political thought. The first is summed up in Plato’s Republic, the second in Aristotle’s polis. The republic is large and relies on the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Flannery O'Connor, Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, News, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch, Thomism | 0 |
I recently started looking into nihilism… but then I realised it was pointless. For some, that joke is enough to expose the absurdity and illogic of a philosophy that holds that there is no meaning […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Analysis, Features, Flannery O'Connor, Jacques Maritain, News, Paul Elie, The new yorker, Thomism | 0 |
“That a good many Christians today kneel before the world,” Jacques Maritain observed in The Peasant of the Garonne, “is a fact perfectly clear.” Taking aim at the “new philosophy” he detected weaving its way […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | Adrienne von Speyr, Books, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Communio, Features, Fr. Louis Bouyer, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac S.J, Ignatius Press, interview, Jean Danielou, Joseph Fessio S.J., Matthew Levering, News, Nicholas J. Healy, ressourcement, Thomism | 0 |
Matthew Levering and Nicholas J. Healy, Jr., are co-editors of a new book of essays from Ignatius Press that highlights the important work of several ressourcement theologians while honoring the important work done by Fr. […]
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