Sublime

One pillar of Chesterton and Belloc’s philosophy was the principle of subsidiarity: that no entity (social, financial, or political) could take charge of any function if it could be handled by a smaller entity. Pope Pius XI defined the principle in his encyclical Quadragesimo Anno: “Just as it is wrong to withdraw from the individual and to commit

The Bogomil church was divided into two main classes, the Perfect and the Believers, similar to the Manichaean Elect and Listeners, although the Bogomils apparently did have a Listener class as well, who were below the Believers.

The call to contemplation here is the call not simply to see Christ in the other but to treat the other as Christ. Benedict calls us first to justice: love God, love the other, do no harm to anyone.

James Wood, a University of Texas psychology professor who would soon emerge as the Rorschach’s leading detractor, and two coauthors published a highly critical article in the respected journal Psychological Science. “Basic issues regarding the reliability and validity of the Comprehensive System have not been resolved,”

JOHN THE SCOT, or Johannes Scotus, to which is sometimes added Eriugena or Erigena,I is the most astonishing person of the ninth century; he would have been less surprising if he had lived in the fifth or the fifteenth century.

Origen, in spite of being recognized as one of the Fathers, was, in later times, condemned as having maintained four heresies: 1. The pre-existence of souls, as taught by Plato; 2. That the human nature of Christ, and not only His divine nature, existed before the Incarnation. 3. That, at the resurrection, our bodies shall be transformed into absol

When a congregation’s identity is in its resources, it is on an accelerating pace that alienates it from the world, making it excarnate in thought and practice.