I’ve been encouraged to share my personal response to Antoni Gaudi’s Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, and I gladly do so. However, in responding in a personal way I have fond hopes that this will not be an entirely self-indulgent exercise. Hope One is that how this structure...
This series of books published by the Catholic University of America Press introduces Catholic doctrine and spirituality from a perspective rooted in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. In recent decades, dogmatic theology in the Thomist tradition has been enriched by careful attention to history, Scripture, the Fathers of the...
“Which of these three, do you think, proved neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?” The parable of the Good Samaritan speaks directly to the conscience of the human race. Who, on hearing this parable, would not blame the priest and the Levite who, when they saw the...
Everything in this world can be turned towards good, everything without exception, even what is unrighteous. Make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, our Lord tells us in the Gospel, so that when it fails they may lead you into eternal habitations. ‘Mammon’, of course, is first of all...
Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father. Let us consider this. Who are those who say ‘Lord, Lord’, who speak with this apparently religious urgency, but who somehow miss the point? What can we hear in...