Light of the Nations

Lumen Gentium is the common name by which the Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution on the Church is known. The Church bears the true Light of the nations, which is Christ, and presents him to the world. It presents this Divine Light to the world more fully than does any other religious communion. It is in the spirit of being a countenance of this Light, as the Church much more perfectly is, that this blogspot is humbly offered.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

The Devolution of a Blogspot

All's well that ends well? All good things must come to an end? All things reconsidered (via Purgatorio1)? That's all folks? How sho...

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Incorporating Suffering Into Your Life

"I die daily," St. Paul, 1 Cor. 15:31. Admittedly, I live in the affluent West. I also come from an Evangelical Christian backgrou...

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

On the Blurry Line Between Law and Social Norms vis-a-vis the Recent Muslim Outrage at Danish Cartoons

I suppose that those of us who have been keeping up with the news lately (and Lord help us who have done so!) are aware of the big stink cre...

Friday, February 03, 2006

The New Religious Composition of the U.S. Supreme Court

Anyone find it interesting that with the recent elevations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, the majority of the court...

The Task of Theology

I wonder what you all think of the following quote. It seems to have some valuable insights on the task facing the theologian and that task...

Saturday, January 28, 2006

On This Feast Day of St. Thomas Aquinas, Chief Among the Doctors of the Church

To the right is an old artistic portrayal known as "The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas." The image adorns the cover of a book I...

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Feast Days this Week of the Liturgical Year

This is indeed an exciting week for Catholics, generally, but especially for those who attempt to exemplify the "domestic church" ...

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Rousseau Quotes Apropos on This Day of Remembrance

I've been researching Rousseau a bit lately and I came across two comments of his from the opening lines of the Social Contract, the fir...

Saturday, January 21, 2006

On the "Culture of Life" as the Nation Remembers the Advent of the Culture of Death - January 22

The "culture of death," as the affluent West is commonly called in Catholic circles, did not necessarily start with the decisions ...

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

"I Have a Dream"

Upon searching for the title of the famous speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Google, I came across a site that I thought many wo...

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

The Sacred Responsibility of Teaching by Word and Deed

Recently, I came across a post by an acquaintance of mine through a mutual friend. It's entitled "Growing up Catholic: Misgivings....

Saturday, January 07, 2006

From Heretics to Separated Brethren (Part II)

I certainly agree with all mainstream Catholics that there have been 21 Ecumenical Councils and they are all authoritatively on a par with o...

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

From Heretics to Separated Brethren: Reconciling the Church's View of Protestants from Trent to Vatican II (Part I)

In this post, I give a preamble to an attempted answer to the question proposed by the title of this post. In the one to follow, I attempt t...

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

(Then) Cardinal Ratzinger on East/West unity

On a recent visit to a weblog which is new to me, I stumbled upon this important entry . It contains great news, though one hesitates to be ...

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Nietzsche on Martin Luther

I've been having to research Nietzsche a bit lately, and I came across the following quote about Luther, which I thought I'd share a...

Thursday, December 29, 2005

Christ and the first six General Councils of the Church

The 7th General (or "Ecumenical") Council of the Church, as most people reading my posts already know, dealt strongly with the iss...

The Primacy of Sts. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas

I recall a former professor of mine, who was very fond of both St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Thomas Aquinas, recollecting with some disdain...

Vatican Council I on the Nature of God

Again, I think all my fellow Thomists out there will be greatly appreciative of the following quote from Vatican Council I, Chapter 1: “On G...

Vatican Council I on the Existence of God

I thought all my fellow Thomistically-minded Christians would appreciate this dogmatic decree from the First Vatican Council concerning the ...

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

What will you have, Reformation or Revolution?

A very close friend of mine from my high school days and beyond is in the RCIA process of converting to the Catholic Church. He is to be rec...

St. Vincent of Lerins and Progress in the One Church

The progress of dogma is a way in which the ancient Catholic Church remains ever new. This other aspect of the faith, described so well by S...

St. Vincent of Lerins and Staying in the One True Faith

Hans Urs von Balthasar noted in several of his writings the interesting and paradoxical nature of the Church as being ever old, yet ever new...

Friday, December 23, 2005

A Victorian Christmas

Since Advent is drawing to a close and the joyous time of Christmas is at last upon us, I thought I'd share with you a little tradition,...

Part III in a three-part conversion story

I was able to graduate from the Master's program in good conscience knowing that I would not be working over the entire summer after gra...

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Part II of a three-part conversion story

As you may or may not know, Southern Evangelical Seminary, located in metro Charlotte, NC, is very unique among graduate schools of theology...

The following is Part I of a three-part conversion story

This story is my own. It is offered because a few individuals have requested it. I hope you find aspects of it interesting. As a fairly youn...

The End and Purpose of this Space

This blogspot is intended to be a place primarily for reflection in the broad areas of theology, apologetics, and philosophy, especially as ...

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