The meaning of life is to become a saint.
Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your w...
Philosophy says truth, literature shows truth.
Likewise the subjection of woman to man results from the perfection of the male and the imperfection of the female sex.
Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world,
Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Thérèse said, on her deathbed, Everything is grace.
Since the foe of the human race was vanquished not as by God but as by man, as Pope Leo says
He rewards our efforts with peace and joy.
Each
We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to whatever we cannot part with that is less than God, our true good. And that includes ourselves--...
St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.
Revelations
Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.
Philosophy makes literature clear, literature makes philosophy real.
Only Judaism and Christianity are religions of public record, eyewitnessed facts.
Mercy is Truth clothed; judgment is Truth naked.
In a sense all the way to Heaven is Heaven (St. Catherine).
If a government is built on the principle of benevolence similar to that of a father towards his children, that is, a paternal government . . . , in which subjects are treated like children who have n...
Heaven will do to earth what the New Law did to the Old: not replacement but consummation (Mt 5:17).
Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.