St. Thomas Aquinas, as we know, worked out five “viae” (later called “demonstrations”) to the existence of God. His formulation of them was technical and availed itself of specific philosophical concepts. In their essence, however, the five ways of St. Thomas are simple, and put the spontaneous inferences of the ordinary person into words of philosophical formulation. They belong to […]
State Paternalism.
One of the many obstacles to subsidiarity, or quite simply to free enterprise, is state paternalism which could be a close relative of statism. Paternalism as a phenomenon, however, is not confined to politics, and invades practically all the mass media and information at large, because it is a typical forma mentis of forms of totalitarianism. We see this from […]
No social action without doctrine It is not possible to “construct the new city on the clouds”
There is a tendency in politics to impose vision and views with strong and fiery declarations separated entirely from an underlying and weak theoretical system that comes across in words that end up being innocuous. On the contrary, as Msgr. Giampaolo Crepaldi writes in his book[1], it is necessary for there to be something “at the foundations of politics”, something […]
God is accessibile to all because what is more cannot come from what is less. The ‘simple’ metaphysics of Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange.
St. Thomas Aquinas, as we know, worked out five “viae” (later called “demonstrations”) to the existence of God. His formulation of them was technical and availed itself of specific philosophical concepts. In their essence, however, the five ways of St. Thomas are simple, and put the spontaneous inferences of the ordinary person into words of philosophical formulation. They belong to […]
The Gnostic heresy: the most dangerous and threatening foe of the Catholic faith.
Available in bookshops as of 5 July 2018 is the new book by Stefano Fontana “Chiesa gnostica e secolarizzazione” (edizioni Fede & Cultura, Verona) which deals with how Gnosis is working its way into the Catholic Church in a very alarming way, often unnoticed and with the naive consent of Catholics. We asked the author a series of questions about […]
Address of His Holiness to members of the “Gravissimum Educationis” Foundation. 25 June 2018
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO MEMBERS OF THE “GRAVISSIMUM EDUCATIONIS” FOUNDATION Consistory Hall Monday, 25 June 2018 View the Document
Note on the 50th anniversary of Paul VI’s Encyclical Letter. Humanae vitae and Social Doctrine of the Church: united by the same destiny.
The Encyclical Letter VI Humanae vitae of Paul VI and the Social Doctrine of the Church met with the same opposition. We are talking about the end of the 1960’s and the early 1970’s. This fact of sharing the destiny of being the object of opposition during those years (as well as afterwards and even at present, since the fundamental […]
Note on the 50th anniversary of Paul VI’s Encyclical Letter. Humanae vitae and Social Doctrine of the Church: united by the same destiny.
The Encyclical Letter VI Humanae vitae of Paul VI and the Social Doctrine of the Church met with the same opposition. We are talking about the end of the 1960’s and the early 1970’s. This fact of sharing the destiny of being the object of opposition during those years (as well as afterwards and even at present, since the fundamental […]
Address of His Holiness to main Companies in the Oil and Natural Gas Sectors and other Energy related Businesses. 09 June 2018
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO PARTICIPANTS AT THE MEETING FOR EXECUTIVES OF THE MAIN COMPANIES IN THE OIL AND NATURAL GAS SECTORS, AND OTHER ENERGY RELATED BUSINESSES Clementine Hall Saturday, 9 June 2018 View the Document
Address of his Holiness to the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMCS). 28 May 2018
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO THE WORLD FEDERATION OF CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS (FIAMC) Hall of Popes Monday, 28 May 2018 View te document
The European Union: an institutional structure/system that insists on ignoring the history of the western world. The IX Report on the Social Doctrine of the Church in the World has been published.