Pius X Modernists Pascendi Dominici Gregis (Feeding the Lord’s Flock)[1] Pascendi Dominici Gregis (Sept 8, 1907) Lamentabili Sane (July 3, 1907) Why & History Why study a document over 100 years old? Is it relevant today? Who should teach it? Pius X canonized saint, so his writings are proposed as a means of truth….
Dear friends, Attached is the narration of the testimony with beautiful cinematology by the former Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith Gerhardt Cardinal Mueller. Bishop Strickland, among many others, praised the good Cardinal’s words. AMDG, Karen https://manifestooffaith.com/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/cardinal-mueller-issues-manifesto-of-faith (in written form)
We arrive at the pivot point in human societal structuring, the Enlightenment Project and the French Revolution. At the end of this essay, sources for further study are proposed. David Hume (1711-1776) has the advantage of stating his thoughts concisely while still widely read today. Peter Gay, a historian on the Enlightenment, says, “Hume, more…
However, there were other philosophers and theologians who found the ideas of the Pre-Socratics persuasive. William of Ockham, famous for his Ockham’s Razor theorem so prevalent in the sciences, as well as for embracing nominalism. Then as now, students of Aquinas find his thought to be difficult and dry. Ockham in contrast was found to…
Part I: Pre-Socratics to Scholastics As a context for the current essay, recall the four guideposts of a Catholic philosophy: creation metaphysics, hylomorphic anthropology, realistic epistemology, and objective ethics. https://fidesetratio.us/2018/02/01/four-catholic-guideposts-of-philosophy-part-i https://fidesetratio.us/2018/03/29/aristotle-setting-the-philosophical-scientific-standard-for-millennia/ I ended my previous essay with Aristotle but to be complete with the classical philosophers I should conclude with Plotinus (circa 240-270 BC), who…