Category: Catholicism

Today’s One-Liner (#248)

If I had to fix a date for my conversion, as distinct from reception into the Church, I think I should put it during that winter, and should say that St. Francis converted me, but…

Today’s One-Liner (#247)

“The Bible has always been restricted in Communist countries because it is an agent of change.” –A Protestant pastor in Cuba, cited in Robert Royal, The Martyrs of the New Millennium:The Global Persecution of Christians…

Today’s One-Liner (#246)

For justice cannot exist where all the best things in life are held by the worse citizens; nor can anyone be happy whee property is limited to a few, since those few are always uneasy…

Today’s One-Liner (#245)

Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven. –The Gospel according to St. Luke, 6:37.

Two Faculties

C.S. Lewis once discussed the problem in terms I here paraphrase: During Mass I can exercise either a critical or a devotional faculty, and the two are mutually exclusive. If my critical faculty is alert,…

Today’s One-Liner (#244)

‘You must be the only person staying in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have been happening there these last few days.’ –The Gospel of Luke, 24:18

Churches

“I had hired a Bohemian as my servant while I remained in London, and being much pleased with him, I asked Dr. Johnson whether his being a Roman Catholick should prevent my taking him with…

St. Thomas Aquinas

Sheer intellectual greatness is never so attractive, never appeals so much to the imagination and to the emotions as greatness of a more practical kind. That is why Napoleon, Caesar, and Joan of Arc will…

Today’s One-Liner (#237)

Inordinate fear is included in every sin; the miser fears the loss of money, the intemperate man the loss of pleasure. –Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Josef Pieper, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, #302