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Monthly Archives: January 2017
Filling the Vacuum….
Virgil tells Dante what it was that caused the Assyrian Queen, Semiramis, to be tormented in the region of the Inferno reserved for the lustful. Her sin, however, seems to have been more than just lust, which for Dante is … Continue reading
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Tagged Dante, Islam, Marxism, morality, multiculturalism, sexual liberation, Shakespeare
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Roe v. Wade: The Tragedy of Our Age
January is the month in which we remember the 1973 United State Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. This weekend there are marches around the country by those who believe that court ruling was a tragedy. Significantly, the promoters … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, Anais Nin, radical feminism, Roe v Wade, sexual revolution
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Sign of the Times – 10 Years on
In an article published January 6th 2007 in The Washington Post there appeared a story about the latest wrinkle in the eugenics revolution: A Texas company has started producing batches of ready-made embryos that single women and infertile … Continue reading
Sin & Death – a moebius strip
For a while now I have thought about posting something about one of the most theologically influential verses in the New Testament, Romans 5:12, on which Augustine famously depended for his teaching on original sin. Readings from a recent daily … Continue reading
We Saw His Star In The East
Of all the liturgical feasts in the Church calendar the feast of the Epiphany of the Lord seems to me to most reflect the mission of the Cornerstone Forum. For it is on this day the Church celebrates the light … Continue reading
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Tagged Epiphany, Lord's Prayer, Trinitarian, Trinity, Vonn Hartung
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Impatience . . .
“It is better to bear uncertainty than to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence. Genuine readiness already contains the seed of faith; untruth, on the other hand, that self-deception that pretends to views it does not really … Continue reading
Custody of the Eyes
In a recent reflection (again) in the Magnificat, a remark by the Thomist philosopher Josef Pieper caught my eye, if you’ll pardon the pun (which you won’t have noticed until you read what Pieper said): The cultivation of the natural … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Astell, concupisence, curiosity, Josef Pieper, New Year, St. Bernard, vice, virtue
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