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A Fearful Homage
“In matters of strict faith and morals, a Catholic must give unwavering assent. In matters of discipline, a Catholic must cede absolute obedience, but can legitimately pose questions as to expediency and effectiveness.”
Of Giants and Jesuits
“While [The Jesuit’s] charism was to be Mother Church’s Fifth Column, St. Ignatius recognized they would fail this high vocation without the cultivation of surpassing sanctity and razor-sharp intellects.”
Whither Our Catholic Churches?
“Every Catholic Church is a book. In fact, so is every building made by man. They tell a story.”
Lex Orandi Lex Aedificandi
“Modernism is an ideology of the old seeking eagerly to justify both its vice and its ennui. Orthodoxy is the adventure of the young who are hungry for the adventure which is ad maiorem Dei gloriam.”
Brick by Brick
“For buildings define man, they place on display what a man knows about himself. Buildings are truth in stone.”
Is Love Really All You Need?
“Love is not some homogenized virtue, one size fitting all. Its legitimate expressions fan out like a rainbow, and its array of lights is dictated by truth.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Anyone?
“Catholics must begin to lean their heads upon the wisdom of St. Thomas, as he often leaned his head on the tabernacle as he wrote.”
A Caricature of Charity
“If the ideologues truly looked at the poor, they would not see poor men, but simply men.”
I Love Texas
“When you love seriously, you don’t wince at the serious things necessary to protect the people and values you love.”
The Priest as Hercules
“The priest is hero in the tradition of Odysseus and El Cid. Men seek him for both light and strength and he supplies both in abundance.”
In Praise of Heroic Priests
“Amidst the dark clouds of crisis that surround Mother Church, it is well to take notice of God’s rays of hope.”
God Bless America?
“Ultimately obligations are those kinds of acts which are owed to the truth, and ultimately to God, the First Truth.”
The Properly Angry Catholic
“Toleration cedes ground to the enemy, and he begins his next assault on higher ground than he did before. “
What in the World Is a “Worship Space”?
“Under the umbrella of ‘worship space,’ they stretched terms used by the Church beyond comprehension. “
Why Valentine’s Day Is Named After a Saint
“In the end, romance on earth leads to the final Romance of Heaven.”
A Modest Proposal to End the Vocations Crisis
“Holy Church understands that an intimate ontological bond exists between the Holy Eucharist and the Holy Priesthood: an eclipse in appreciation for the one inevitably leads to a decline in interest in the other.”