So maybe it wasn’t an official endorsement but here’s part of Pope Benedict XVI’s Easter Vigil homily on 07 April 2012, where he hammers home an essential point:
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I thought I would share a few relevant quotes this morning:
“If people are scandalized at the Truth, it is better to allow the birth of scandal, than to abandon the Truth.”
Pope Saint Gregory I,
For those of the more academic bent, please consider reading Étienne Gilson' book “Thomist Realism and the Critique of Knowledge” (Réalisme thomiste et critique de la connaissance, Vrin, 1939.). As my friend said, it's “drop everything” good!
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All is relative…relatively objective that is. Whether things are small or large doesn't matter because these are descriptors. They words that we invented. Things are the size that they are despite whether we can wrap our heads around them with
“True law is right reason in agreement with nature ; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from
wrongdoing by its prohibitions…It is a sin to try to alter
Back in 2006, when I was a senior in high school I was in physics class and our physics teacher, Mr. Scott, showed us the Van de Graph generator. I thought to myself, cool…lets make one. After doing some research,
Before the weekend break, in my post
earlier, I mentioned that the distinction between atheism and theism is probably the most ancient and serious distinction that has been around. The question of when and why religion began appearing on the earth is something that has always intrigued me. Did the arrival of the practice of religion predate therevelation of God
I just have to share this video:
You thought I was talking about another kind of extremism, didn't you?I'd really like to examine how that word has come to
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22 February 2012
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The Lenten season offers us once again an opportunity to reflect upon the very heart of Christian life: charity. This is a favourable time to renew our journey of faith, both
It can be both. Today from the Cardinal Newman Society we see the effect that writing on the internet can have. My comments are in blue and emphasis in bold:
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