Since a lot of people ask me about moral theology questions I thought it’d be a good idea to share this examination of conscience which does an excellent job distinguishing between mortal sins and venial sins

Obviously you should be referring to your confessor first and foremost, but it’s always helpful to have an objective examination of conscience. I hope this is helpful!

admitting the possibility of aborted babies being extra-sacramentally cleansed of original sin by God does nothing to take away from the tragedy of abortion

God loves them so much that depriving them of the opportunity for greater degrees of glory in heaven through an earthly sojourn of growing in sanctity is enough of a tragedy

outdated Aristotelian biology aside, St Thomas would have supported the criminalization of abortion even before “animation” https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1521514612864307201?s=21&t=_15hkQuH1JZWCcddulqxTA

Abortion = worse than the holocaust

let’s go

our “elder brothers in the faith”, everyone

Robert Grosseteste, following Dionysius, deduces a fundamental law concerning the nature of divinely instituted hierarchy and it’s pretty insightful:

“Whatever is done hierarchically and in salvific mystery is done in order to recall a lower creature to God by the mediation of a higher agent, who neither:

-usurps powers which his place does not accord him
-neglects to do what is required of him
-hands on what is above the other’s capacity to receive
-refuses what befits the lower creature’s receptivity”

according to Grosseteste, this law has universal applicability across celestial, ecclesiastical, and human hierarchies

Pray for the Holy Father! I’m by no means alone in suspecting we could have a new conclave within a year or two, so while you’re praying for the Holy Father’s health, make sure to also pray that God will restore new life in the Church. The world needs it now more than ever, and very soon all eyes will be turning to Rome

https://twitter.com/breeadail/status/1522059641206808582?s=21&t=YDlgi_ylTU_lf4ar6XaPjA

still true https://twitter.com/classicaltheis/status/1520209549017427968?s=21&t=cWHbOWSeKIqKtUO9_daN6Q

There is a tendency among some to shy away from using natural analogies to describe the Trinity out of fear that they might accidentally lend support to some ancient heresy or another, but this is a grave error

It should just be a given that any natural analogy will fall short of capturing the ineffable mystery of God’s own inner Life, but if we are committed to the notion that all things bear in their very natures a finite likeness to the divine essence, we should expect the patterns a of nature to reflect the Triune Life of God

Hence, St John Damascene compares the Blessed Trinity to a fruit tree where the root signifies the Father as principle of origin; the branch signifies the Son as begotten of the root; and the fruit signifies the Holy Spirit as proceeding from the root through the branch

Similarly, in an equilateral triangle, a) each angle is really distinct from each other although not really distinct from the area of the triangle, b) each angle is equal (consubstantial) because they are constituted by one and the same the same surface (or essence), and c) though the angles are equal, there is an order of origin among them in that the first angle once drawn becomes the source of the second, after which the first and the second necessarily form the third angle.

These natural analogies should be embraced as illuminative and helpful so long as we have a firm grasp of the orthodox doctrine

if you wouldn’t ban abortion even if human life didn’t begin at conception we’re not really on the same team

Creation should never be conflated merely with God’s initial act of bringing the world into being at a particular moment in the past

rather every single divisible moment of time is God actively choosing to call forth the cosmos into existence out of pure nothingness.

“that kino casino stream totally buried AF into the ground”

AF literally two days later:

if God was active and fully alive prior to the creation of the cosmos, there should be an internal divine mechanism whereby God lives and acts within and for Himself wholly without any consideration of His decision to create

this conundrum is solved perfectly by the intra-divine relations among the Persons of the Blessed Trinity

Catholics and Orthodox come together and dwell perfect unity and harmony when a biblically illiterate Independent Fundamental Baptist oaf approaches

remember half of these people actually believe Jesus wore a suit and pants lol

I don’t mean any real hostility toward IFBs who are friendly with Catholics, but if go out of your way to mock sacramental, liturgical, and episcopal practices that are very obviously rooted in the early centuries of the Church I basically don’t see you as any different from Mormons

Answering a Patron: On Marriage and Celibacy https://youtu.be/lU3zllTYLz4

“The blessed see the Divine perfections, concentrated and harmonized in their common source, in the divine essence which contains them all, eminently and formally, in a far higher way than white light contains the colors of the rainbow.

Thus, the blessed see how the mercy the most tender, and justice the most inflexible, proceed from one and the same Love, infinitely generous and infinitely holy. They see how this same Love identifies in itself attributes apparently the most opposed. They see how mercy and justice are united in every work of God. They see how uncreated Love, even in decisions the most free, is identified with wisdom. They see how this Love is identified with sovereign Good, loved from all eternity. They see how wisdom is identified with the first truth, always known. They see how all these perfections are one in the essence of He Who Is. They contemplate this pre-eminent Simplicity, this purity and absolute sanctity, this quintessence of all perfection.” - Garrigou-Lagrange, Life Everlasting