13 Nov The New Augustine? Przywara’s Case for Newman’s Sanctity
John Henry Newman is the Augustine of the modern era.1 More still: Newman "resolves and redeems" all that was left unresolved and unredeemed in the historical Augustine.2 This is the...
01 Sep Kurelek: The Journey to Faith
[Note: This essay is basically an extraction of interesting elements from the first portion of Kurelek, A Biography (1986) by Patricia Morley]. [caption id="attachment_17307" align="alignleft" width="215"] Hailstorm in Alberta[/caption] Bill Kurelek was...
23 Jun Complacent Love and the Role of the Holy Spirit in Creation
In dealing with the seven days of creation, Thomas Aquinas makes the following statement: “the Person of the Holy Spirit is implied in the complacency (complacentia) by which God sees...
19 May Todesbanden: On the Shroud of Turin
A talk given as part of the Musical Oratory on May 10. The various hyperlinks provide illustrations. They are not necessarily an endorsement of the material found on the pages...
01 Feb An Essay on Venard’s ‘Literary Thomism’
I Reginald, I cannot, because all I have written seems like straw in comparison with what I have seen! In these words, St Thomas Aquinas explained to his amanuensis why he could...
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