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Thomas Aquinas

The Divine Authorship of Scripture

"Now because the literal sense is that which the author intends, and the author of holy Scripture is God who comprehends everything all at...

The Queen is Dead. Long Live the Queen

The Death and Life of Speculative Theology A Lonergan Idea By Ryan Hemmer Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2023. Pp. 184. $95 Review by Eugene R. Schlesinger In our context...

Sloth, Charity, and the Christmas “Pause”

By Thomas Kincaid Did you know that every year — every single one — New Year’s Day is exactly one week after Christmas Day? Of course...

The Evangelical Edge

 This is the second of three reflections on hierarchy. Part one is here. By Christopher Wells Digging deeper into the origins of hierarchy, one comes to...

Aquinas as Anglican

The following short essay appears in a new translation of a minor work of St. Thomas Aquinas: De Sortibus: A Letter to a Friend...

How to Be an Angry Christian, According to Thomas Aquinas

People are angry. Given everything that’s happened in 2020, combined with the unlimited opportunities created by the internet for expressing our anger, this might...

(Don’t) Take and Eat: The Eucharist and Spiritual Reception

By Junius Johnson It is a strange moment in the life of the Church: to show love to our neighbors we refrain from what is...

St. Dominic & The Florida Project

These are gut-wrenchingly difficult communities to consider. And yet their characters, or at least their real-world counterparts, are my neighbors, whom I am called to love and to serve. St. Dominic would have me ask, “What about them is good, true and beautiful?”

Materialism: Science or Philosophy?

Materialism is not a scientific theorem. It is, rather, a philosophy — and not a well thought out one.

Finding Hope in a World of Optimism

Our culture tends toward optimism, but is it a Christian virtue?

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