Over eight centuries before Franklin D. Roosevelt articulated his “Four Freedoms,” a shorter and much better list of freedoms was elucidated by the young abbot of the new monastery of Clairvaux, one Bernard by name. In his work On Grace … Continue reading
Category: Theology
What Exorcists Know and You Should, Too
For Episode 267 of Reconquest, I interviewed Charles D. Fraune on his book, Slaying Dragons: What Exorcists See and What We Should Know. Mr. Steve Cunningham, of the Sensus Fidelium YouTube channel, has dressed up the interview with graphics and posted … Continue reading
Baptism and the Mad Scientists of Liturgical Experimentation
You may have heard about Father Matthew Hood, a member of the presbyterate of the Archdiocese of Detroit who discovered, to his horror, that he had not been baptized validly and was consequently neither validly confirmed nor validly ordained. Father … Continue reading
The Ontological Argument for God’s Existence
First, a word from me. Saint Anselm was a great theologian and doctor of the Church who was a light in the eleventh century. Let us not forget that.The argument he espoused is simple. He said it came to him as … Continue reading
What’s Wrong with Personalism and ‘Theology of the Body’? An Interview with Dom Pietro Leone
It was my great pleasure to interview the esteemed priest-theologian, Dom Pietro Leone, on the subject of Personalism and the “Theology of the Body” (TOB). The interview was carried out via email and was kindly made possible by his English-language … Continue reading
Horizontalism Invades Theology
By “horizontalism,” we primarily mean that false ideology that reduces causality to physical or material principles acting upon each other. Carl Sagan’s “primordial soup” as an explanation of all life, and Democritus’ “atoms and the void” are examples of horizontal … Continue reading