#Aquinas

Timothy Massaro

word_water_wine

We Protestants need to recover a view of knowledge that transcends what we are inheriting today — how we view doctrine and facts. We’ve inherited a positivist view of knowledge

Reginald

dePiperno

Socrates, Plato, Aeschylus, and Aristotle, agree that a person cannot be truly happy unless he is wise, and he cannot be wise unless he has suffered. As Rabbi Abraham Joshua

Xavier Foccroulle Ménard

xavierfm3

It occurs to me that there is a resurgence of interest in the classical legal tradition, in part because of @iusetiustitium and the works of @Vermeullarmine, @josias_rex, but little understanding

Tridentine Nole ✝️ 🇻🇦

TalentEvaluator

The Catechism on the Council of Trent on the fruits of Christ’s passion: Note that Christ’s death was propitiatory, appeasing. He made satisfaction for our sin. It was not a

Ryan "Modern Reductionist" Turnbull

RyanTurnbull20

Gregory the Great once said, "I hold the office of steward to the property of the poor." This means that the church has a duty to remind the rich that

Sohrab Ahmari

SohrabAhmari

Senator Rubio continues to channel that Leonine spirit, calling for renewal of American "solidarity and collective pursuit of the common good."https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/marco-rubio-coronavirus-economy.html I can already pre

Jacob Randolph

j_rhett

I posted about this yesterday and deleted it because I wanted to offer a more constructive response. This is from Denny Burk's article at @CBMWorg posted yesterday. I take issue

Nullus🇭🇺⚔️

Abnormocracy

Thoughts on Nationalism and Faith (Thread)1. To start, this issue is not a zero sum game. Both nation and faith are complementary and must flourish together. I will focus on

Niall Gooch 👍🇬🇧🇻🇦🚅🏏✒

niall_gooch

Nothing makes me realise my fundamental conservatism more than seeing so many members of the intellectual classes justifying street violence with sophistry & jargon. I hold the stupid unsophisticated bourgeois

🌲 Grandson of Finn 🌲

ogmios

Too many lecturers on this damn site. Too many knowledgeable people feigning formality because they want their teachings to be doctrine. I don't want to be quoted, I don't want

Mason_undead

penderbatch

Regardless, I do know that I like Alex's story if the ApostleCorp ending is canon: she didn't care about anything and never took sides for free because why bother, and

Obaid Omer

obaidomer

Thread on this 1/nHere are two quotes on free enquiry one by ibn al-Haytham and one by Mill they are about 800 years apart. To say free speech is a

unrepentant repenter⳩Ⓐ🇸🇰

ChasePadusniak

The property discourse has me thinking about a story Dorothy Day tells. A man comes to the CW house often for food and shelter. He's off-kilter, but they deal. One

Anthony Clark Arend

arenda

THREAD on Just War and Fratelli Tutti. 1/ First, Read @PrawfBainbridge's thread. Second--spoiler alert--I agree with his conclusion.https://twitter.com/PrawfBainbridge/status/1318655976640184320 2/ In Fratelli Tutti @Pontifex discusses

Daniel Quinan

masterjedi747

The fundamental logic behind all of these things is THE EXACT SAME, and I'm increasingly perplexed that I haven't seen more Catholics highlighting the connections: Anti-slaveryAnti-racismAnti-fascismAnti-abortion It's one thing

Tamanisha J John

TamanishaJohn

Only peeping at Twitter, but imo: downplaying “identity politics” and “intersectionality” by accepting neoliberal definitions of the two does serve to uphold white supremacy. "White supremacy is the unnamed political