Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
As Canadians celebrate ‘Gay Pride’ across this fair dominion, I thought a bit of clarity on what it really is we are being asked to celebrate might be in order. In light of Saint Thomas’ notion of ‘friendship’, we should be clear to distinguish what we might term homo-philia, chaste same-sex friendship, from homo-eros, sexual[…]
Whether charity is a type of friendship? (II-II q. 23, a. 1, resp.) According to the Philosopher (Ethic. viii, 2,3) not every love has the character of friendship, but that love which is together with benevolence, when, to wit, we love someone so as to wish good to him. If, however, we do not wish good to what we love,[…]
