Good article here. Short and very instructive. The Five Beasts, Reid Turner: After His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday Jesus headed to the Temple, making a whip out of cords and driving out of the Temple area not … Continue reading
Category: Holy Scripture
Yes, This Is Precisely the Problem Mr. Kosloski, You Cannot Compromise the Total, ‘Plenary’ Inerrancy of Scripture
This problematic piece on Aleteia website is why I posted the important and well-written article by Mark Joseph Zia on Monday. The inerrancy of scripture cannot be limited to only what concerns man’s salvation. The inspired history, Genesis included, must … Continue reading
Why Have You Done This To Us?
It was an innocent question. It was, in fact, one of the most innocent questions ever asked in the entire history of the world. This astonishing claim I urge with great confidence because the question under consideration was asked by … Continue reading
Plenary Inerrancy of Holy Scripture: Settled Issue and Irreformable
Catholic Culture, Mark Joseph Zia: It is December of 1965. The world eagerly waits to learn what the Second Vatican Council will authoritatively teach in Dei verbum,the Dogmatic Constitution concerning the Church’s understanding of Divine Revelation. More than any other document, Dei … Continue reading
The Crown of Thorns
And platting a crown of thorns they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying: Hail, king of the Jews (Matthew 27:29). (Jesus therefore came forth, … Continue reading
The Ages of the Patriarchs
How many are the days of the years of thy life? He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of … Continue reading
Closer But Not Close Enough: God Himself Tells Us in Genesis That We All Come From Adam and Eve
Scott Smith Blog: First, they said Genesis, Eden, and Adam and Eve were just a “miserable myth”. Then something strange started to happen … Evidence started to stack up that all mankind originated in the same place: the “Out of Africa” … Continue reading
‘St. Augustine, Genesis, and Theistic Evolution’: My Interview with Joseph Gedney
My bright and learned interlocutor in this interview is a 17-year-old homeschooled young man who knows more about this subject than many older folk who pompously pontificate on it. Far from advocating, favoring, or providing useful arguments for theistic evolution, … Continue reading
For She Hath Loved Much
Wherefore I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less (Luke 7:47). Jesus speaks here to the pharisee Simon who had invited Our Lord to a … Continue reading
How Is It That Jesus ‘Grew’ in Wisdom and Knowledge If He Was Ignorant of Nothing
Father Regis Scanlon: One last thought as we leave the Christmas season. Lk. 2:52 points out that from His infancy “Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” People often ask, how can Jesus “grow” in … Continue reading
Our Lady Ever-Virgin: Isaias 7:14 and the Hebrew Word Alma
Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel (Isaias 7:14). Recently I posted as a News Item the denial by Bishop Manuel Linda of Porto, Portugal, of our Blessed Mother’s perpetual and … Continue reading
The Sword Revealeth the Heart
And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts, thoughts may be revealed (Luke 2:35). The four Gospels are not without passages that need explanation. That is why we have an ecclesia docens (a Church teaching). … Continue reading
Who Am I?
I am one of the kings of Juda mentioned in the Book of Kings and in Chronicles (Paralipomenon). I was for the most part zealous for the God of Israel, not so much as David and my father, but … Continue reading
How Could There Be Anything ‘Wanting’ in the Sufferings of Christ?
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church ( Colossians 1: 24). This passage cannot be interpreted … Continue reading
‘Joining a Man’s Heart to a Woman’s Thought’: More Edification from the Machabees
From the Matins readings in yesterday’s Divine Office, here is the faith-filled, courageous, and unsentimental exhortation of an unnamed Jewish mother1 to her seven sons to die as martyrs. So much to learn and admire here! To me, this woman, … Continue reading