Beyond Independent Thought “In the World State in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, embryos are placed in a social class and conditioned to the careers and peers that best meet the needs of the community … we learn about the social class called Epsilon. Bred to Be Unintelligent. The World State produces five distinct social classes named from… Read More Huxley’s Uniform Epsilons
Who or what here is front and Center the whole time? And Who is casually picked up for scarcely a second, put back down and de-emphasized quickly, then passed around in what appears to be the real climax of liturgical intention, the act, it would appear, not of adoring His Real Presence, nor the re-presentation… Read More Now You See Him. Now You Don’t.
Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange THE PRIEST IN UNION WITH CHRIST AS VICTIM. Pt. 2 Ch.3 When considering the priest’s union with Christ we saw that he was bound to strive for an intimate friendship with Christ by reason of his priesthood—that is, by reason of his ordination and his duties towards the sacramental body and the… Read More The Theology of the Priest in Union with Christ.
Allen, editor of the Roman Catholic–oriented news website Crux, amazingly doesn’t even mention the Eucharist as the reason Catholics go to Mass.
Regarding the U.S. bishops upcoming document on the Eucharist, Progressivist Jesuit Thomas Reese proffers some telling theological suggestions: Reese: “… the document should not use the word “transubstantiation,” which is a theological concept based on Aristotelian philosophy, not the Scriptures. I believe that the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ, but… Read More Jesuit Former ‘America’ Editor to Bishops: Drop Trans – substantiation and the Worship of Jesus
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