Charity transcends mere virtue. Yet once this charity exists, it fulfills all virtue, as the New Law fulfills the Old and as grace fulfills nature. Charity is the heart and soul of all virtue.
As I said, relativism says there are no absolutes. Absolutely no absolutes.
Angels just see it all at once; they see all the individual applications of the general principle in the general principle
And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values into laws, or 'society's standards.' A law is enforced only by force. So yo...
All the way to Heaven is Heaven, said Saint Catherine of Siena. We
After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you m...
A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added o...
These relativists turn out to be not relativistic at all about one thing: their relativism. That's their one nonnegotiable absolute.
The will can obey the passions instead of the reason, and this accounts for the fact that we often know what is good and what is evil—even what is good for us, what is truly best for us, for our own u...
The way in which He worked miracles, namely because He worked miracles . . . of His own power, and not by praying (petitioning), as others do. .
The species or nature with which we make our choices is fallen, sinful, selfish, and stupid; and we cannot by our own power attain the deepest and final end of our desires, union with God, eternal hap...
The mere necessity brings with it a dispensation, since necessity knows no law. . . .
The Western form of ignoring real spiritual evils by building a technological heaven on earth. Both are doomed to failure,
The Lutheran alternative to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation which is called consubstantiation, in which the bread and wine are not changed but added to, so that Christ becomes really prese...
Other little wooden fences can come down too. How? When? God only knows.
Life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it is an old-fashioned quest made on our own two feet.
God is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of god. music is a language more profound than words. how often have you heard a great piece of music and felt that? gr...
Don’t confuse scepticism as an attitude, or a method, with scepticism as a philosophy. Socrates was sceptical in temperament, and his method was to question everything. But he believed in absolute tru...
Desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection—indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of d...
Bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When