"As parents, we'd be pretty shoddy if we didn't point out our children's mistakes."
This is an excerpt from a comment on Mr Cristobal Almanza's post concerning "
judging" for the Austin Catholic New Media site. It is the most obvious example in which we are called to make a sort of judgment—and then to act upon that judgment. H...
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G.K. Chesterton wrote:
The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man was always a mystic.
He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free...
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There is a common and false charge laid against
morality as the framework within which laws are written. This is that if we choose to use the law to enforce one part of our morality, we must therefore use the law to enforce all of it. This charge is at times presented in a for of
reductio ad absurdum: for example, since the Old Testament Law requires extr...
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I've read a few works of both Catholic apologetics and Protestant polemics against the Church, and while I haven't read every (or anywhere near most of) work out there from either side, what I have read has a distinct pattern. Both sides will appeal to the Bible in making their case. The Protestants will then appeal to each other with occasional citations of Saint Augustine, and sometimes will engage actual Catholic thinkers. Catholics will engage the Protestant thinkers with at least as much vi...
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