That's true. On the flip side, asceticism nurtures genius. If Aquinas had accepted the prostitute his parents hired for him, I wouldn't be pondering the sacred monster of Thomism.
The misunderstandings are breaking my heart. I stopped posting on RPF a couple weeks ago because of the tone these arguments take. I want so much to clarify Catholic teaching, especially to the inactive Catholics. I want to distinguish between the moral defects of individuals and the moral...
My Dad is working on his campaign. Apparently Duluth's stagnant business and population is shifting the district's power center rural and south to the north burbs of the Cities.
DECLARATION ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
DIGNITATIS HUMANAE
ON THE RIGHT OF THE PERSON AND OF COMMUNITIES
TO SOCIAL AND CIVIL FREEDOM IN MATTERS RELIGIOUS
PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS
POPE PAUL VI
ON DECEMBER 7, 1965
1. A sense of the dignity of the human person has been impressing itself more and...
Not bread alone
Reading B16's first encyclical Deus Caritas Est (2005) for the first time. Came across this:
NB: This segment is from a larger discussion of the Marxist critique of Christian charity: