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
(I may write more on the recent headline, which comes not as a surprise, that most ‘Catholics’ – and one must use that term widely nowadays – reject the Church’s teaching on ‘cohabitation’, companionate marriage or, in more technical terms, fornicatio simplex. For now, ponder these words from the great Saint Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica,[…]
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice (G.K. Chesterton)
A writer must at times take back, or at least re-form, opinions once vaguely and lightly and perhaps too hastily held. Even the great Augustine and Newman wrote their retractions. All part of that humility of Christian growth, one may hope. I finally watched, well, skimmed through, the ‘ritual’ held in the presence of the[…]
