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The standards of clothing may change. What is perfectly modest dressing at one time may not be at another, or at another culture. But in all of them, there is a valid distinction to be made between those kinds of dressing (or lack of dressing) which are particularly lust-enticing and those which...

The problem with nudity is that human beings are easily led into temptation regarding lust. One often hears how it is important to treat each other as persons, and not as objects. This is true. The often forgotten consequence of this, though, is that we ought to dress ourselves in ways which...

I like Christmas music. Like Knightwolflord said, it helps me keep in the Christmas spirit. Yes, they do begin too early (traditionally, tomorrow would be the day to start the display of the external signs of Christmas); but when November comes and the shops start to put on Christmas...

Woman priests, woman bishops, gay bishops... People are finally realising that one ought to either become Catholic or leave the whole thing altogether.

This is great news!! Too bad it hasn't been more publicized... Next step, Queen Elizabeth? :)

My friend, we keep only the moral teachings contained in the OT; these are valid for all people, all times. The purely disciplinary and ritualistic laws have been done with, as they were meant only for the Jews and at that time. No-one is a hypocrite for not following OT laws nowadays. In...

And even this prohibition was only a matter of convenience, to avoid generating scandal at that time and place.

If you don't like, or have problems digesting, pork and seafood, these are good reasons not to eat them. But if you are under the impression that we are somehow not to eat these foods because of OT laws, then you are completely wrong. All the dietary restrictions have been brought down, and...

I agree with Filia Mariae and Carrie. The mind, that is, our rational intelectual activity, is not the same thing as the soul. We are living beings. We eat, breathe, move, reproduce, etc. Every single act that belongs exclusively to living beings is a function of the soul, which is, in...

Charlie, you are in my prayers too. Perhaps your situation will improve and you'll come back here. But if you don't, that's no problem; there's bigger things in life than Internet forums, right? Anyway, you keep on praying for us as well. Best wishes!

But then you create a confusion. You will be left without any science which deals without reality without Divinely revealed premises. The conclusions you reach will only be acceptable to those who also accept your religious premises. Keeping philosophy "secular" is actually a great help to...

I don't think machines can have souls; in other words, I don't think machines can be said to be alive in the same way actual living beings are. Machines simulate the functions of living creatures. They walk around, they "feed", they "see". Someday we will have machines that simulate human...

Revelation does not exclude rational speculation based on the data of reality. The distinction between philosophy and theology is very old. It dates from the Middle Ages. Both sciences proceed in a stritctly rational way, that is, by way of arguments, demonstrations, proofs, objections, etc...

Profits generated in the free market are, far from being a blameworthy thing, a sign that the company has done good. It has been able to, using resources that society as a whole estimated as being able to produce a certainty quantity of value, produce a greater value. In other words, whereas...

On Jesus and Stoicism: Christian ethics, whereas having some similarities with stoicism, is not stoic at all. Stoic morality requires that man banish his passions from his life. The virtuous life, the life of reason, is incompatible with feelings and the passions. Christian morality is...

Did anyone else see this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6701819.stm 'Mr McCann said the goodness that had been generated by "one evil act" had restored his faith.' There. The problem of evil solved in practice, by a faithful father. Prayers for the couple and for their daughter...

It depends on what you mean. Something coming from absolutely nothing (no agent cause at all) is absurd. First of all: did the potentiality of this "something" (its possibility) pre-exist it or not? If it did, then we didn't have nothing, for something was there (the potentiality of what...

By epoch: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle St. Augustine, St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus David Hume, Adam Smith Wittgenstein, Ludwig Von Mises

God's omniscience does not all take away our free will. God knows what we'll do. Since He knows it, we will necessarily do it. However, we will not do it "out of necessity". Let me explain better by means of an illustration: You see a white ball. Since the ball is white, it is...

No. There are some contemporary "high church" lutheran groups who claim to have recovered apostolic succession (yes... weird): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran_Orthodox_Church In short, they managed to get some heterodox bishops to ordain them. "Igreja Católica Apostólica...