Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. (Cicero, +43 B.C.)
Day: November 8, 2024
Trying to Build Your Own Do-It-Yourself Magisterium
It’s kind of sad to read Gerald McDermott’s[1] lament on the state of modern Anglicanism, striving to find a locus veritatis – a place wherein they may find the truth. The problem, of course, is that only the Catholic Church founded by Christ has the ‘fullness of truth’, of which she is the ‘pillar and bulwark’.[…]
Duns Scotus and Pope Benedict
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Hall Wednesday, 7 July 2010 John Duns Scotus Dear Brothers and Sisters, This morning, after several Catecheses on various great theologians, I would like to present to you another important figure in the history of theology. He is Blessed John Duns Scotus, who lived at the end of[…]
Where Has All the Farmland Gone?
RFK, Jr. explains in three minutes, and it’s worth pondering. If this is the case with pig farming, what’s next? And what might be done? If there’s a central message from Pope Leo XIII’s landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum, it’s that private property – and farms especially are requisite for the freedom of a nation. Take[…]
Gregor Mendel, Priest and Scientist
Gregor Mendel of Austria (1822-1884) was a young priest in the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austria, who in his spare time he studied in his monastery garden the reproductive patterns of the garden pea. From these studies Mendel was able to determine certain laws at work which determine the inheritance of dominant[…]