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Catholics Can Certainly Vote For Joe Biden
Lot of discussion out in the wilds and thickets of the interwebs about whether Catholics can vote for Joe "Who Am I?" Biden. Many say Catholics cannot vote for Biden,…
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Against Papal Encyclicals — Guest Post by Richard Greenhorn
The program with papal encyclicals is the same: Every few years the windows of the Vatican open and a forty-thousand word puff of smoke is exhaled. No one quite knows…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: How Faith Arises
Previous post. The knowledge that is faith and its objects must come from above. This isn't just faith in God, but in all unprovable matters in which there is absolute…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: How We Can Love God
Previous post. Key quote: "because of [love], even difficult things are lightly regarded." Who, who has experienced love, can deny this? THAT SANCTIFYING GRACE CAUSES THE LOVE OF GOD IN…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: What Grace Is
Previous post. Another most simple chapter, which if you accept its premises, flows easily on. Key quote: "For divine love is causative of the good which He loves in anything,…
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Integralism As Liberal Despair—Guest Post by Richard Greenhorn
I point the reader to a fascinating exchange. Bishop Robert Barron had been confronted by a group of laymen pleading for some kind of leadership against the ghouls burning cities,…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: You Cannot Merit Divine Help In Advance
Previous post. Key quote: "knowledge of the supernatural end comes to man from God, since man could not attain it by natural reason because it exceeds his natural capacity." THAT…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Man Is Not Forced Toward Virtue
Previous post. This is a simple chapter, no longer controversial. It is not difficult to get us moderns to believe we are not required to act rightly. THAT BY THE…