Reality is Greater than Ideas
Pharisees: “That man cannot be from God: he does not keep the Sabbath.” Blind Man: “Ever since the world began it is unheard of for anyone to open the eyes of someone born blind; if this man were not from...
Category: Analysis
The Role of Primacy in the Amoris Debate
Nearly two years later, there are few signs of a resolution to the ongoing intra-Church dispute over Pope Francis’ 2016 Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. Even prior to its release, going back to the preparations for the 2014-2015 Synods on...
On the Church in China
Over the last several weeks, both religious and secular outlets have been publishing news and commentary on the rumored impending agreement between the Chinese government and the Vatican. Beginning with reports in January that the Vatican had asked two bishops...
Sola Traditio
«No prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation. For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost.» — 2 Pet 1:20-21 (DRV) When I...
Communion for the Divorced and Remarried: a Defense of Amoris Laetitia
This article is a systemic summery of the most controversial section in Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia. In doing so it addresses all of the major questions and objections that people have regarding the pope’s teaching on divorced and civilly remarried...
Thomas Aquinas: Ghostwriter of Amoris Laetitia
Pope Francis has stated multiple times that Amoris Laetitia is rooted in the moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. The citations to Aquinas in chapter eight of the exhortation have been commented on by others, but specific quotations from the...
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