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Bishop Richard Moth, Bishop of the Forces, has been bishop for about five and a half years over the armed forces. Pray for him. He will be...

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Today's Gospel deals with the authority of Christ.  A few bullet points. Christ came on the scene from the outside of the establishm...

A long time ago, I wrote in the perfection series about detachment. When one truly becomes detached from one's own desires and no long...

http://vocations.jesuits.org/life/Spirituality Look at the last video on this page. The explanation of the examen is superb. Something w...

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The walk through Fides et Ratio is half-way accomplished. Caritas in Veritate comes next. In the days gone by, encyclicals were read fro...

The Church, like a good mother, has watched over the forms of philosophy, especially in this modern era of mega-confusion. St. John Paul II...

It is an illusion to think that faith, tied to weak reasoning, might be more penetrating; on the contrary, faith then runs the grave risk o...

No comment needed for this obvious section.... The drama of the separation of faith and reason 45. With the rise of the first universitie...

Many people do not realize how, in this encyclical, and in other writings, St. John Paul II restored the eminence of St. Thomas Aquinas as ...

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...