Seek and you shall find does not refer to anything else: long life, conquest of earthly enemies, freedom from pain, disease, death, betrayal, weakness, and so on. But it does refer to God and to that...
Sacraments are that literal, that physical. Salvation is very physical. If the woman with the hemorrhage had touched the hem of St. Peter’s garment instead of Christ’s, her faith alone would not have...
Play and mirth is also necessary for the intercourse of human life and to cheer the heart of man. This is why God invented not just water but also wine (Ps 104:15).
Physical emotions are moved by chemicals, nerve endings, weather, digestion, hormones, and a thousand other things in the body or the physical world. Animals can’t love without physical emotion. Angel...
One of the reasons lust is bad (not the only reason) is that it makes you stupid. Like any addiction, it blinds your vision to everything else and focuses it on the one thing that is the object of you...
Modernism and Fundamentalism are popular—they are two quick and easy answers to a complex question.
John’s privilege among prophets is somewhat analogous to Mary’s privilege among women. No prophet is closer to Christ than John. Christ did not call him the greatest of all the prophets and more than...
It is significant that in most languages there is a single word for the essential virtue regarding both of these two relationships, which are the only two relationships where we cannot pay all that is...
It is much easier to fail to love your parents than to fail to love your children. That is why there is a commandment that commands love and respect to parents, but not to children. In an age of abort...
In fact, educated people can justify sins more easily than uneducated people can, because they are clever enough to rationalize their sins away.
In essentials, unity; in inessentials, diversity; in all things, charity.
Greed for the things money can buy (natural wealth) is a bad thing, but it is finite. You can only enjoy a finite amount of food or drink, houses or cars, or even sex. But greed for money (artificial...
For we are not pure spirits who happen to be trapped in bodies. We are not even spirits who only have bodies, for we do not have bodies as we have possessions. We are bodies as well as souls.
First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth...
Even if it were within her legal right and authority, it would harm more than help. It might be argued that it is like capital punishment today: the state has the right to use it if necessary, but sin...
But we will probably never see this, never move from original selfishness to universal charity and unselfishness, without the intermediate step of the family.
But a sneer can be a greater crime than a murder subjectively, for a sneer means You are beneath contempt, you are sub-human, you are worthless scum, you are not even worth taking the trouble and time...
Becoming saints is the meaning of life. It is why we exist. It is why God created us.
Atheism robs death of meaning. And if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? For death is the end of life. Here
Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia—that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another—but not the other half—that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on b...