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Why St. Thomas?
The Church has given the title “doctor” to some of her saints. In Latin doctor means “teacher” and the doctors of the Church are teachers of a very special sort. Pius X calls them “our […]
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Garrigou-Lagrange’s On Divine Revelation is a master class of Thomistic apologetics
I’m sure very few people ever expected to see a revival of interest in the thought of the late French Dominican theologian Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange. In preconciliar Catholic theology his traditional Thomism belonged to the mainstream, […]
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Arguing for God’s Existence: St. Thomas vs. St. Anselm, Part 1
Among the most famous arguments for God’s existence is St. Anselm’s so-called “ontological argument” in the second chapter of his Proslogion. Anselm contends that God’s existence should be evident to anyone who carefully examines the […]
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Newly translated Garrigou-Lagrange essays cover wide range of topics
Thanks to the fine work of Matthew K. Minerd a score of previously untranslated essays by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (1877-1964) are now available in English. The collection, entitled Philosophizing in Faith: Essays on the Beginning […]
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What is analogy? A Thomistic introduction
In what follows I would like to introduce you to analogy from a Thomistic perspective. I will begin with a look at analogy in general. Then I will discuss some different kinds of analogy. And, […]
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Reading St. Thomas: A beginner’s guide to the articulus
Reading St. Thomas for the first time can be a challenge. Besides his scholastic vocabulary, another stumbling block for you might be the literary form of his writing. Many of his texts are divided into […]
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The fundamental crisis of contemporary culture and the wisdom of St. Thomas
Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. is a priest of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph. He has written for a number of Catholic and theological publications, and is currently working on a doctorate in sacred theology. […]
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Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 3
This is the third and last part of my discussion of Thomism and political liberalism. From the first two essays (see here and here) I think that we can conclude that one important thing that […]
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Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 2
Are political liberalism and Catholicism friends or enemies? The debate surrounding this question has been going on for a couple centuries. It was already well underway in 1832 when Pope Gregory XVI intervened in it […]
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Fides et ratio: An encyclical even more relevant today than it was in 1998
The philosophical currents that troubled John Paul II two decades ago and moved him to write Fides et ratio haven’t disappeared. […]