Over the last few weeks I’ve been excitedly following the Synod on the New Evangelization, but I’ve been a little disappointed. Much of my concern surrounds the Synod’s latest focus, Islam, which was sparked by Cardinal Peter Turkson’s macabre YouTube video. I agree that Islam is important and deserves attention. No doubt it presents many …
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” – St. Augustine Because I’ve built up a large collection of extra books and resources, every week I give away some absolutely free, no strings attached. Each giveaway lasts seven days with a new …
In this video commentary, Fr. Robert Barron dismantles “scientism”, the dogmatic worldview holding science as the supreme source of all knowledge. Proponents of this maintain that as scientific discoveries continue to pour in, God’s existence will eventually be disproved. However, as Fr. Barron notes, God by definition is outside of space and time—outside of science’s …
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Flannery O’Connor, the great twentieth-century novelist, was known to have read St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica for at least 15 minutes each night. That helps explain how her macabre stories became so drenched in Thomistic virtue and Catholic sensibility. In one of her personal letters, she revealed, albeit tongue in cheek, how deeply St. …
My Journal of the Council by Yves Congar Liturgical Press, 1,100 pages, hardcover Yves Congar is widely hailed as a top Catholic thinker, but it wasn’t always so. In the 1950’s, along with Henri de Lubac and Karl Rahner, Congar was censured for what were perceived to be ‘progressive’ ideas. The Church’s fog …
