Month: February 2023

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "I simply don't believe that any amount of catechesis is going to convince Catholics of the real presence while smiling Boomer women gather at the altar, apply their ritual Purell, then step down and casually hand the Eucharist to anyone who's willing to make the sacrifice of waiting in line for a minute."— Anonymous Response to Dreher's post asking for Catholic readers to respond to […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "What about the killing of children makes progressives willing to advocate for it against their humanism and conservatives willing to abdicate their faculty of judgment for its sake? It is insufficient to blame Roberts’ use of precedent if something about abortion tempts intelligent people to use precedent as a technique for assuaging their conscience, just as it tempts others to use the logic of competing […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The Forty Days of Mary’s Purification are now completed, and she must go up to the Temple, there to offer to God her Child Jesus. Before following the Son and his Mother in this their mysterious journey, let us spend our last few moments at Bethlehem, in lovingly pondering over the mysteries at which we are going to assist."— Dom Prosper Gueranger, The Purification of […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The middle can very well be a maximum, a peak, but exactly such as will be found to be that center of gravity able to bear human existence between two abysses. Thus virtue stands, on the one hand, opposed to hybris, immoderation, in which man misses himself. Misrepresenting the truth about himself and the truth about reality, he tries to be a god, and failing […]