It’s not hard to see why the Catholic Church condemnedMeister Eckhartfor heresy. One of his teachings, in particular, is shocking even today: the good or blessed man, properly “poor in spirit”, is so much of one will with God that he wills everything that God wills, and in the fa...
It is a national holiday in numerous historically Catholic countries. Attending a mass is the most common All Saints Day tradition within the Catholic Church. The Beatitudes are read during mass, and prayers are said for the Saints. Many visit the grave sites of loved ones and relatives to ...
The movie with which Wong Kar-wai became an auteur, Leslie Cheung became James Dean reincarnated and many of the unsuspecting mainstream audiences became bored out of their minds, Days of Being Wild is, above all, a hymn to rebellion: an intention noticeable from both Wong’s deliberate ditchi...
I don’t remember when I first read thebook of Ecclesiastes. I firsttaughtit at the Catholic Stonehill College. There we were free to teach Intro to Religion however we wanted, so to follow my own intellectual curiosityI made it “God in the West”. The one thing we were required to ...
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In chapter 7, “Is the Reformation Over?”, Reeves take issue with the claim (by Mark Noll among others) that Protestantism and Catholicism are now in agreement about the issues of the Reformation. Reeves says that Catholic teaching hasn’t changed since the Council of Trent and the 1999 Ca...
While many manors are now derelict, some were restored to former glory.Monasteries, even if faded and stripped of their riches by the occupational regimes, still impress with their oldest-in-town buildings. Once invited to help make and keep Lithuania Catholic the monastic orders became a part ...
There are numerous scientific challenges to Darwin’s theory. The Roman Catholic public intellectual and biographer of John Paul II, George Weigel has an essay in First Things on an article by the distinguished scientist, David Gelernter on Giving Up Darwin. Some years ago I wrote a review of...
As such, these ideas are no different from the ideas we perceive in our dreams. What this means is that all objects exist as a result of thoughts.4Our thoughts create what we perceive to be real–be it in a dream or an awakened state. ...
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