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08/18/2012
What drives a man’s life is his real doctrine. The Newchurch is driven by a false doctrine of God, man and life.
What drives a man’s life is his real doctrine. The Newchurch is driven by a false doctrine of God, man and life.
God wishes no man’s damnation, but men’s freely choosing Heaven or Hell is too precious to be overridden by his omnipotence.
It is not unjust for a soul’s eternal fate to depend on its brief life on earth. God spoke to it constantly.
The Church is more like a living tree than a pile of golden coins, as Vatican II and Benedict XVI pretend it is.
If a soul understands how God prefers quality to quantity, it could almost wish the chaos of today’s world were still worse.
If man is to woman as stake is to tomato-plant, then he must stand firm by his work, and tall by God.
For any human being to achieve eternal salvation may be a hazardous undertaking, but free choices greatly increase or decrease the hazards.
Pagan classical authors are worth reading because they can testify quite independently of the Church to the universe’s moral structure and order.
Japan’s terrible earth- and sea-quake remind us that suffering can be a punishment or warning or an occasion to practise virtue.
Free-will’s inclination to sense delights accounts for the damnation of numberless souls, but also for God’s Paradise being no little reward.
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.