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Francis X
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A Soulful Balancing Act
The rational soul is composed of these three powers: intellect, will, and passions Pixabay The picture above can be interpreted as the...
Colin Causey
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When Laws/Duties Conflict: A Catholic Perspective
Public Domain Sometimes in the moral life we find ourselves in a situation in which there seem to be two or more duties that are binding...
Colin Causey
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The Catholic Doctrine of Merit: Calvin's "No Contribution" Objection
A common Protestant objection to this doctrine is that even if our good works are the products of God’s grace...
Francis X
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What Will We Become?
Public Domain What will we become? Every great person was in the beginning a small, helpless baby in the arms of his or her mother. What...
Michael Snellen
2 min read
How Thomas Aquinas Says You Should Study
"Since you asked me, my dearest in Christ Brother John, how you should study in order to acquire the treasure of knowledge, I offer you...
Eric Scheske
6 min read
Pulling Thomas Aquinas Kicking and Screaming into the Twentieth Century
Josef Pieper’s views during the neo-Thomistic movement. Photo by Tom Parkes on Unsplash There are some authors who make you think, “I...
Eric Scheske
3 min read
When Drunkenness is a Mortal Sin Redux
Aquinas appears to make it pretty hard to get so drunk that inebriation, by itself, is mortal Photo by Motoki Tonn on Unsplash By Eric...
Michael Snellen
4 min read
A Simple Pear Tree Refutes Darwin
The Natural Law is Nature aided by Reason My pear tree “For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly...
Boaz Wildcat Goss
6 min read
The Goodness of God in a Lizard on a Leaf
The lizard who inspired this post Local woodland creatures know where the party’s at. It’s at my house. We always leave through the...
Eric Scheske
4 min read
Thomas Aquinas: Pinnacle to Obsolescence in 200 Years and Why It Matters
Aquinas knew there was something prior to essence and being. Western culture lost sight of it. The Summa (lest the reader think I'm...
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