We must return once more to the New Testament. In the eleventh chapter of the Letter to the Hebrews we find a kind of definition of faith which closely links this virtue with hope. Ever since the...
The real insight of Augustine’s psychological analogy for the Trinity is not its “explanation” of the fecund mystery of the divine nature, but rather its discovery that the mind is a create...
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Catholic theology takes for its proper object the mysteries of faith PER SE. Evangelical theology, on the other hand, takes as its proper object the mysteries of faith PER SCRIPTURA. Thus while t...
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If evil is a privation of good, it is necessary that arguments in favor of evil suffer an analogous privation of reason. This is why arguments in support of immortality are bereft of intelligibil...
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> A Catholic friend of mine had a very good conversation recently about the latest CDF clarification regarding Catholic Theology of the Church and how it relates to the Orthodox. 'What is m...
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Secundum Mentum Divi Thomae
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The fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (381) did not intend to define the manner of the Spirit’s procession from the Father, but only to affirm, in language acceptable t...
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Some scientists, especially the popularizes, claim to embrace philosophical materialism for scientific reasons. Yet, many philosophers know that there are no scientific reasons for philosophical ...
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Most scientists are not philosophers. As such, some scientists commit the same intellectual errors typical of other non-philosophers. The antireligious bias and vehemence of some popularizers o...
I will not give in, because I oppose it. Not my pride, not my spleen, nor any other of my appetites, but I do, I.
The following questions are taken from the authorized English translation of the Catechism of St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, 1821 to 1867, whose official title is A Full Catechism of the O...
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The idea of Sacred Tradition has undergone a great deal of development over the centuries. The material distinction between Scriptural Doctrine and the Doctrines of Tradition was not made a forma...
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Some thoughts I had yesterday at Mass regarding the differences between the Western Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. The spirituality of the Western Church – borrowing a metaphor from s...
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I answer that God is in things in certain common and special ways. He is in everything by essence, according to which he is in a thing as an efficient cause is in its effect; by presence, accord...
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Sometimes the suffering of Christ is described as the effect of God’s wrath pored out on the Savior who stands in the place of the sinner. The form which this divine wrath takes is the abandonm...
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'I had rather believe all the fables of the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince Atheism...
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God our Father, you taught the gospel to all the world through the preaching of Paul your apostle. May we who celebrate his conversion to the faith follow him in bearing witness to your truth. We...
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I wrote the following as a graduate student for a course in Pauline Soteriology. It obviously does not reflect expertise in either the Pauline epistles or the New Testament in general. This is b...
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In 1436 he was made Bishop of Nicæa by John VIII Palæologus – though he was not destined to ever see his diocese – and asked to accompany the Emperor to the Council of Ferrara, in part to p...
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Selections from Eric Cohen 's article in First Things, 167 (November 2006): 26-30. ....The trouble is that most scientists — at least most modern biologists, whose work dominates the public...
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The following is the first paragraph of an article published in the British Critic for July 1841. Written in the twilight of Newman's confident Anglicanism, it is a brief - and somewhat biting -...
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From ZENIT Documents published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since the Second Vatican Council to 2005 are now available in one volume….The book is dedicated to Benedict XV...
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Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY. After years of archaeological work, Vatican officials announced they have identified the tomb of St. Paul beneath the Rome basilica dedicated to the apostl...
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ARTICLUS UNICUS Objection 1. It seems that Santa Claus does not exist, because Christmas gifts may be given to us by various good elves, and so there is no need for Santa Claus. Obj. 2. Fu...
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Pope Benedict apparently made a peaceful visit to Istanbul, Turkey this week. The papers are reporting that the theologian is also quite a diplomat. Although the primary purpose of his visit �...
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