Temptation and Lenten Penance
During the Lenten season, we seek to turn back from sin and to God. Each of the practices of Lent—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—helps us to
During the Lenten season, we seek to turn back from sin and to God. Each of the practices of Lent—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—helps us to
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy” (Matthew 5:7). In my previous column, I discussed justice and noted that it is not necessarily
“The gifts of the Holy Ghost are seven in number: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord [Isaiah 11:2-3]…. The gifts
Veritas: this is the latin word for “truth.” It is also among the mottoes of my order, the seemingly simplest motto of the Order of
Guest post by Dr. Matthew Tan. Recently, the Sydney community of the Order of Preachers, more commonly known as the Dominicans, organized an Aquinas Symposium.
One of the more memorable G.K. Chesterton’s “Father Brown” stories is The Resurrection of Father Brown. In this short story the titular character is “murdered”
In my previous column, I discussed the cardinal virtues and stated that they could be of some benefit to us in keeping our New Year’s
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and
This is part VIII of a series on works of mercy which I have written for Lent. You can read part I, part II, part III, part
This is part VII of a series on works of mercy which I have written for Lent. You can read part I, part II, part III, part
This is part VI of a series on works of mercy which I have written for Lent. You can read part I, part II, part III, part
This is part IV of a series on works of mercy which I have written for Lent. You can read part I, part II, and part III
This is part III of a series on works of mercy which I have written for Lent. You can read part I and part II first.
This is part II of a series on works of mercy which I have written for Lent. You can read part I first. Feed
One of the pillars of Lent is almsgiving (and by extension, almsdeeds). On the surface, almsgiving and almsdeeds mean only to give away money or
“Those, who denounce fear, assail the law; and if the law, plainly also God, who gave the law…. If, then, according to hypothesis, they abolish
“The things which we Christians embrace by divine faith, and which are not to be received except by divine faith, are humanly incredible. They are
To state a tautology, we all deserve justice. Moreover, most people will, I think claim to desire justice if asked. And, since God is not
Abstinence may be a mere means to an end, but it’s often given a bit of a bad rap. Indeed, in the recent spate of
Claims by prominent and not-so-prominent physicists that the universe can create itself from nothing are not exactly new. Indeed, such claims have been made since
Is faith a type of knowledge? This question gets asked often in modern time, and has quite probably been asked time and again since time