This paper summarizes Catholic teaching on the procession of the Son from the Father, and of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son.
Given that the Son and the Holy Ghost are consubstantial with the Father, that is, of the same substance and numerical nature as the First Person, the question arises: “If […]
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Trinitarian Processions
January 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Apologetics · The Holy Trinity
Catholics, Protestants, Grace, and the Spiritual Life
January 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
This paper answers the following question: Given what Catholics believe about grace, merit and justification, why is it much more logical for Catholics to have treatises on progress in the practice of the presence of God and growth in mystical prayer than Protestants?
To answer this question, we must first contrast the two positions on grace, […]
Tags: Apologetics · Spiritual Theology · Grace
The Council of Nicæa was Catholic
November 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments
The headline of this posting may strike readers as comical. It is, of course, a fact. It seems so obvious as to be like asserting that the New England Patriots are a football team. However, there are Protestant polemicists who attempt to detract from Nicæa’s Romishness by the use of various ahistorical machinations.
I was going […]
Tags: Sacred Scripture and Tradition: Sources of Revelation · Apologetics · Church History
Catholics, Non-Catholics, and the Natural Law
August 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Given the general decline in public morals, and given the fact that, as an institution, the major promoter of the natural law is the Catholic Church, some are led to conclude that the natural law is a “Catholic thing,” or that it only binds Catholics. The natural law is Catholic inasmuch as it is an […]
Tags: Moral Theology · Apologetics · Natural Law
