For love concentrates on the object, sex concentrates on the subject.
For love concentrates on the object, sex concentrates on the subject. Love is directed to someone else for the sake of the other’s perfection; sex is directed to self for the sake of self-satisfaction...
Facts themselves do not give knowledge
Facts in our day are not the same as the facts in the time of Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas. But the principles by which these facts are interpreted have not changed, for common sense remains essentiall...
Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator.
Celibacy is not the absence of a passion; it is rather the intensity of a passion.
As in Eden there took place the first espousals of man and woman, so, in her, there took place the first espousals of God and man, eternity and time, omnipotence and bonds. In
As all men are touched by God’s love, so all are also touched by the desire for His intimacy. No one escapes this longing; we are all kings in exile, miserable without the Infinite. Those who reject t...
Another evidence of this same disrespect for rational foundations is the general readiness of the modern mind to accept a statement because of the literary way in which it is couched, or because of th...
A man who makes himself a godmust hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked. But God can become a childand talk in parables and never lose His Divinity.
The modern world has rejected for the last three hundred years (after believing in it for the first sixteen hundred years), namely, the virgin birth of Jesus from His Mother, Mary, who is a virgin.
Hunger is not just an economic problem. It is a moral and spiritual problem.
[A] young husband with an unfaithful wife, who is consecrated and dedicated to continence, eats daily of the Bread of Life so that the bride may one day return to both the home and the faith.
Two principles inspire much of the personal and social dealings of many a citizen in our land: What can I get out of it? and Can I get away with it? Evil is confused with good, and good is confused wi...
Truth never appeals to us unless it is personal.
Totalitarians are fond of saying that Christianity is the enemy of the State—a euphemistic way of saying an enemy of themselves.
To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own...
Thus He did at a marriage feast what He would not do in a desert; He worked in the full gaze of men what He had refused to do before Satan. Satan asked Him to turn stones into bread in order that He m...
These are but a few specimens of philosophy which is no longer conscious of its own intrinsic worth, and which sees no higher mission in life for itself than applying the categories of the material to...
Their mockery is something like we hear today. Germany prays to God; America prays to God; England prays to God: On whose side is God? The implication being that God must necessarily be a geographical...