Angels are made of pure spirit (mind and will) without matter, without bodies. Therefore they must communicate by mental telepathy.
Ancient ethics always dealt with three questions. Modern ethics usually deals with only one, or at the most two. The three questions are like the three things a fleet of ships is told by its sailing o...
That’s why contraception is wrong by nature: it’s a limit, a Wait! Hold! No! Not quite! We won’t give each other Everything)
See C. S. Lewis’ essay Meditation in a Toolshed for this crucial distinction.) The
4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man’s loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.
When the soul no longer conforms to the will of God, the body no longer conforms to the will of the soul.
Our primary practical commandment in this life, to love our neighbors: it is not only for their and our good in time, but also preparation for our and their eternal blessedness.
Democracy is probably intrinsically the best form of government, not because all men are equal in wisdom and virtue, or because all men are so good and wise that they should be given as much power as...
Are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore,
You can be just as certain that God will give you little pieces of Heaven, little appetizers for Heaven, for the rest of your life on earth as you can be certain that He will give you the fullness of...
When you’re in a burning building looking out of the twentieth story window down to the street and all you see is clouds of billowing smoke, you have to choose to believe the firemen below who tell yo...
We see that the universe is full of all sorts of species. Every possible rung on the cosmic hierarchy is filled. There are no gaps. Below us there are intelligent animals, like apes, then less intelli...
Truth is unchanging. The principles of morality are unchanging. The human essence is unchanging. Therefore there is no hope of a New Man, Heaven on Earth, Babel Rebuilt, a Brave New World, or Superman...
Thus the quintessentially conservative dogma of Christ’s divinity as the pre-incarnate eternal Logos is the basis for the quintessentially liberal hope that good pagans can go to Heaven. He is indeed...
There is a legend that in every age God spares the world the destruction it deserves only because there are a certain number of Abrahams, righteous men and women who keep the world alive by their righ...
The ultimate reason we must become holy is that that is the only way to become real.
The second reason was to make public and visible an invisible spiritual reality. This is the purpose of all the sacraments. Indeed, it is the fundamental purpose of matter itself.
The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause.
The more you treat someone you hate as if you loved them, the more you will find yourself loving them.
The Exodus also = salvation; Egypt = sin; Pharoah = Satan; Moses = Christ; the Jews = the Church; the Red Sea = death; the wilderness = Purgatory; the Old Law = the New Law; the gospel; the old Mount...