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The State in America and the United Kingdom have supported a lie that these governments are faith-based. These are not. This lie makes Cat...

If you give people the knowledge of who they are and who God is then they will choose God. This is what I mean by getting back to metaphys...

The thirst for truth is so rooted in the human heart that to be obliged to ignore it would cast our existence into jeopardy.  Again, he...

Sometimes in an encyclical, a line "jumps out" at a person. Here is one from Fides et Ratio, the focus of this half of the series,...

In yesterday's Benedictine Divine Office, which I use, and is called the Monastic Diurnal , at None , the reading from Wisdom 10:10 wa...

The word berserker comes from the ancient connection to the Viking raiders, called the  Úlfhéðnar. The word is  berserkr. His ( Odin...

And goes with today's readings. Those bloggers, who are seeing fault in Voris for some odd reason, need to watch this. Hey, this ...

This could be called the lament of the remnant. Those who have stood up for the Pope, the Church, Christ in the world have met with the...

The great tragedy of so many Catholics, a theme on this blog for years, is anti-intellectualism. This tendency to see reason as not necessa...

One begins, always, with Scripture, and the conviction that there is a knowledge "peculiar to faith" which enlightens the mind. ...

....the whole universe of knowledge has been involved in one way or another. Yet the positive results achieved must not obscure the fact tha...