Reason is His voice, His interior prophet, in our souls. We call that prophet conscience. (St. Thomas used two terms for it: synderesis was the awareness of its reality and truth and authority and rul...
Prayer is not only conversation, it is transformation. It is not only light, it is fire. And the closer you get to Him, the hotter the fire gets. Words begin to melt. The first word that melts in His...
Our attempts at charity without God, our attempts at charity before faith and hope, all fail because they are based on ourselves and our own false sufficiency and our own righteousness as their founda...
It is faith (trust) that affirms that the light, the ultimate truth, is perfect love. (That’s because there is only one God, and He is both.) Therefore faith is the key to this absolute love of truth.
Christians are good citizens, and take human laws very seriously, for religious reasons, not just for secular reasons. That’s why they are better citizens than atheists, and certainly better citizens...
Catholics have seldom had the difficulties and embarrassments many Protestants have had about creation vs. evolution. Ever since Augustine, they have interpreted Genesis‘ days non-literally.
Between 50 and 75% of entering freshmen at large Catholic universities typically identify themselves as believing and practicing Catholics. Only 25-50% of graduating seniors do the same.
As society grows, it knows more and more about less and less. It knows more about the little things and less about the big things. It knows more about everything and less about Everything.
5. You can’t prove a lot of things that it would be lunacy to deny—for instance, that human reason is trustworthy, that it is not being hypnotized by a demon at every moment. Of course that thought is...
Sacramentally present at Mass—this Church is either God ‘s own or it is the devil’s own.
The person who is committing the sin of sloth may be doing nothing visible that is wrong. Yet he is rejecting the presence of God, refusing the joy of love.
Each practical moral virtue has two opposed vices, a too much and a too little (e.g., cowardice and foolhardiness, or insensitivity and self-indulgence). Theoretical truth also usually contrasts with...
Dulia is like a high but finite number; hyperdulia is like the highest number out of a finite number of finite numbers; latria is like infinity.
Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not.
But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside,
A certain participation in happiness can be had in this life, but perfect and true happiness cannot be had in this life.
Now in giving honor to one’s parents or to the gods, as indeed the Philosopher says, it is impossible to repay them measure for measure; but it suffices that man repay as much as he can, for friendshi...
Every human soul craves the good, the true, and the beautiful absolutely and without limit. And it is precisely about these three most fundamental values that the gap is the widest. Ordinary people st...