“The pre-Christmas raids are part of an escalating crackdown on house churches and unsanctioned Christian, as part of an effort by the Xi regime to secure absolute control over all religious activities in the country. So far this year, there have been more than 10,000 cases of Christians being detained in China, compared with just…
“The Church teaches clear that Mary always a virgin ante partum, in partu, post partum, before, during and after the birth of Jesus Christ. So much for the prophecy that the Messiah, from the line of David, would be born in David’s city, Bethlehem (“house of bread”), where David was crowned. There is an old but good piece about…
Some objected that because Christ came to grant liberty to His people, it was not fitting that He came at a time when the Jewish people were subjected to Roman occupation and the Herodian dynasty (Herod was not a true Jew). St. Thomas answered that because Christ came in order to bring us back from a…
“The fact is, I have MANY issues with Occam’s razor in science and other forms of investigation, and most of them don’t deal with deception. They deal with progress in science, more than anything else. Although the modern intrusions of leftist deception politics into science are changing that balance very rapidly. Some scientists tend to…
How should the Christian prepare for this birth of the Lord of Life? As with all human births there is both joy and suffering. Fasting calls to mind that aspect of suffering in a way that is fitting to receive the Lord. I propose three areas of consideration for fasting: fertility, finances, and time. Fasting…
“Christianity also goes beyond Aristotle. Nature in Christian thought is the creation of a loving God. We may therefore say that the world for Thomas does not merely have but is blessed with intelligibility, just as man is blessed with reason. Nature’s beauty is not confined to the senses but extends to the mind. Shall…