“God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” Hearing these words, we might at first conclude that St Paul conceives of only one way in...
And He sat down and called the twelve; and He said to them, ‘If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.’ And He took a child, and put him in the midst of them… When Christ takes this child and shows him...
St James tells us that God chooses those who, though poor in the eyes of the world, are nonetheless rich in Faith. In this teaching, poverty and Faith are not just two states of being which God happens to have brought together. Instead, they are deeply, inwardly connected. To see...
“Yes, these days all the live-in girlfriends are Thomists,” I was writing this morning, to my Chief Buncombe Correspondent. (The county is in North Carolina.) I was commenting on his account of an Uber ride, with a nihilist doctoral candidate, who lives with a fan of Saint Thomas Aquinas. “Someone in...
If I touch even his garments, I shall be made well. These words of the woman with the haemorrhage can be heard in at least two ways. In one way, they can be interpreted as an expression of absolute certainty, an unquestioned confidence in the power of Christ to heal...