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Sorry to hear about all this! :prayer:

I will remember you at Holy Mass.

We've been praying at Daily Mass every day for the victims of the Nepal Earthquake. We also prayed on Sunday Mass. This is a terrible tragedy.

Hey Fish and Bread, I'm sure you agree that to have to choose between the two is a false choice. However, CST is very clear: the right to life first is fundamental, and although we shouldn't have to choose, an abortionless society is a lesser evil. @ Fantine: Thank you for finding...

seekingfreedom, Thank you for taking the time to clarify. My point is simply this: the example you are using I believe is flawed. Catholic Moral Teaching makes clear and important distinctions between material/formal cooperation with evil, as well as remote vs proximate cooperation...

Hello again Fantine, I don't think anything is going to be served here by throwing out red herrings. Burke has never said anything about women staying in the kitchen or that women shouldn't have businesses, jobs, or what have you; only that laymen have a role in the Church as well and need to...

Hello again, Fish and Bread. Let me first thank you for a very well presented response. To recap, you said quote "The Republican Party" is a/the party which wishes to defund social programs in order to stop abortion. Note carefully what I asked: That is to say, who would defund social...

Hi Fantine, good to see you again. I still fail to see how that is an unequivocal good that Church hierarchs should be A) Apolitical and B) Not enforce Church discipline. I agree with him in terms of giving out communion, because a necessary connection between the Sacraments and the...

Italian food sounds like a good idea!!!

Everyone, it seems to me, needs to be doing a lot of prayer and fasting for each other, and hopefully, a good deal of repentance and self-examination.

Hi again Fish and Bread: Two questions on this front: First, where has Burke threatened anyone? I would call his approach more "admonition" or "warning." As for condemnations, I don't see that, either. In St. Paul's Epistles, he himself passes judgment, warns, and corrects people...

If any sin is made necessary, it is also robbed of moral culpability, because if a person or a group of people lacks the capability to resist moral evil, they then do not incur responsibility for rectifying the situation. Say for instance a person with schizophrenia, or some form of brain...

To Frenchdefense: Although I believe that summary to be extremely disingenuous, as I (and Burke) would no doubt be eager to discuss many things on the docket of Catholic Social Teaching, his reasoning, my reasoning, and that of the Ordinary Magisterium of the Church, is that the right to...

Hello again, Ebia! I think it is a bit extreme to say to separate them would be to destroy them. Like any good Thomist, (and I pray I am worthy of the title) we use distinctions in order to clarify and unite, rather than to separate. I made a distinction between ontology, logic and...

A very nice summary of his "res gestae." Thank you for sharing!

Right. The date basically comes from Varro and a few other extrapolations. I'm not saying we celebrate the Roman Empire/Republic/Kingdom because they were that, but moreso because Rome is the city which was destined to be the site of the martyrdom of Sts. Peter and Paul and the Mother Church...

Today, April 21, 2015 AD, is also the year 2768 AUC (Ab Urbe Condita), the Anniversary of the Founding of the City of Rome. A very happy day to us all who are the successors of all those events which culminated in the arrival of the faith in that Great City!

Ebia, Thank you for a considerate and thoughtful reply. And I would agree with you on this. This is also fairly stated. However, there is a considerable amount of moral ambiguity present in terms of material cooperation. If by the Church, you mean several influential Western...

Hi Fish and Bread, The only reason we have hungry people in the first place is because they were allowed to live. Additionally, whether a particular war was unjust or just is an argument regarding which we may legitimately disagree. Such wars rarely feature in the average person's daily...

Conversations I've had with friends in San Francisco.