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FireDragon76, See if you can't get your hands on "The Mysteries of Christianity" by Matthias Scheeben. It's somewhat pricey, so you'd do best to find it at a library. There's a great chapter in there on sacramental theology which serves as a fine synthesis of scholastic sacramental theology...

I think I quite agree with Zippy. (The reference to Journet by itself is nearly enough to win my heart.) Consider also that if papal infallibility was just like politicians or lawyers making infallibly true statements, we lose the supernatural (perhaps praeternatural?) character of papal...

Re: Vatican II -- It was an ecumenical council. Therefore it was infallible. But there were no official canons, so... it's ambiguous as to what, if anything, that infallibility "stuck to." Certainly, the documents are magisterial, but not everything put out from an ecumenical council has the...

I think the answer is a resounding yes. There are appropriate times to think about things. Suppose you are in the medical profession, and you are filling out some paperwork for a patient. But you are thinking about death to such a degree that you are unable to think clearly about the patient --...

What do you think prophecy is for?

Several things... But first, where did you get this timeline? It's best to provide references for these sorts of things. Next, there is a very important distinction between explicit and implicit doctrine in Catholic theology. Certain doctrines, such as that Jesus was the Christ, were handed on...

We might also take to heart that there is a difference between fidelity in doctrine and fidelity in practice. If, say, the Jewish people of the Old Covenant were being unfaithful to the Law, would that be a good reason for proclaiming Judaism a false religion? Certainly not. The same idea could...

Long post... We should really consider, on practical grounds, what it would mean for the Church to be relatively abandoned. It would be as if the Church did not exist at all, because we would have no way of knowing if it did. We would have no moral guidance. That seems contrary to Christ's...

I will try and reply more later, but I am short on time. Law is indeed God's creation. He made nature to follow certain patterns, i.e. the natural law, written on man's heart. We can further specify how we meet the requirements, such as by choosing the kind of government which will rule us (so...

Life has been anything but simple since the fall of Adam. And Christ comes to us in our messy circumstances. Consider that daily living is full of laws, and traditions, and rituals. Drive on the right side of the road. Look at people when they are speaking to you. Brew coffee at 6:30 AM. The...

It's worth remembering that John Finnis was Gorsuch's doctoral supervisor at Oxford. Finnis, some of you may know, is a Catholic moral philosopher, rather on the "conservative" side. (Many classically-minded Thomists and neo-Scholastics rather dislike Finnis since he is a figurehead, alongside...

Heaven is principally the vision of God. Of course there are other things accessory to it, but they do not constitute Heaven as such. This is integral to the first thousand and a half years of Christian theology. The Greek Fathers often repeated after Irenaeus of Lyons (†202 AD) that God became...