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Finally, I Post a Small Tribute to the Cardinal The puzzling Roger Scruton recently penned a borderline-beautiful tribute to Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University. Check it out [http://spectator.org/archives/2010/09/17/the-idea-of-a-university]. Excerpt: > The university is a society in which the student

Something for Sunday Morning

“Meekness above all makes men masters of themselves.” St. Thomas Aquinas

Something for Sunday Morning

“Pray with great confidence, with confidence based upon the goodness and infinite generosity of God and upon the promises of Jesus Christ. God is a spring of living water which flows unceasingly into the hearts of those who pray.” St. Louis de Montfort

Wednesday

If Catholics led the good life that I see in my Mormon acquaintances, there would be no other churches. If we could just combine the Mormon goodness that its members exhibit (leavened with a little bit of wine) and combine it with Catholic theology, we'd have a real

Something for Sunday Morning

“The human will can be protected from sin only when the reason is preserved from ignorance and error.” St. Thomas Aquinas

Something for Sunday Morning

“Each person is like that which he loves.” St. Augustine

Something for Sunday Morning

"Pain allows us to accompany Christ on the cross. Suffering and contradiction purify us. . . Let is not abandon the cross by grumbling and moaning, complaining or giving in to sadness." Francis Fernandez

Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Piety and Death "It is difficult to fear death if one is very pious." Alas, KL has made me take spiritual stock of myself again. I never used to fear death, and then I had children. I then came to fear death . . . for their sake. Of course. And

Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn

The Robotic Soul "There is little doubt that atheism, agnosticism, and the denial of the other world are partially responsible for the rapid technological development which gave us, apart from exquisite instruments for mass destruction, various means to bridge time and space. . . Ortega y Gassets points out very adroitly

Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Medieval Man "Medieval man (like every deeply religious man) was eschatologically static. To him time was a relative conception because his center--God--stood at the same distance to the year 1300 B.C. as to the year A.D. 1300." The medieval man appeals to me, especially since I&