13 Thursday Aug 2009
Nineteenth century Rome was not the uneventful place one may imagine. Rome of the 1800s saw Mazzini, Garibaldi, and their Masonic cohorts dare to assault the Vicar of Christ and send him into exile.
It saw fickle mobs capable of murdering priests and desecrating Churches, and heard such slogans as “Death to the Jesuits!” and “Down with the Pope!” shouted in the streets. Continue reading
06 Thursday Aug 2009
The gifts of the Holy Ghost resemble the infused virtues in a number of ways. Both are operative habits which have God as their efficient cause and the perfection of man as their final cause. Both reside in the human faculties and have right behavior as their material object. Continue reading
30 Thursday Jul 2009
“The friends of Christ do not tolerate hearing that the Mother of God ever ceased to be a virgin.” -St. Basil the Great
Introduction
“The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35)[1]
In God’s plan for our salvation, the only-begotten son of the Father was also to be the son of Mary. This is simply a fact of history. Continue reading
16 Thursday Jul 2009
02 Thursday Jul 2009
Posted in Articles Published in Other Venues, Theology
An explanation of authentic doctrinal development.
We hear a lot about doctrinal development. All too often, it is in the context of articulating some novelty that something is called a “development of doctrine.” Continue reading
25 Thursday Jun 2009
Posted in Articles Published in Other Venues, Theology
And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:85 And they went down alive into hell . . . and they perished from among the people. — Num. 16:31,33
The book of Numbers records the details of a rebellion violently suppressed by God Himself. Continue reading
18 Thursday Jun 2009
Posted in Articles Published in Other Venues, Mariology
For the better part of eight hundred years, Catholic Spain fought to liberate herself from Islamic occupation. The Reconquista, or Reconquest, as this war of liberation was called, began to make great strides in the second half of the eleventh century. Continue reading