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Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "While it is fascinating and edifying to watch a man contemplate the highest goods with the full weight of an impressive intellect, time and again, he holds back from truly embracing universal truth. In some real sense. For Peterson, Christ’s Passion is the ultimate example of what each one of us must struggle with in our own individual search for truth. Which is true! But […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The conservatives specialize in a different heresy, which is really a secularized Calvinism. For them, people cannot become better. Sanctification is limited by the bounds of post-fall reality. God’s overcoming of our sin is extrinsic; we remain as fallen as ever. There is no sacramental grace that enables our ascent to Him while here on earth; and thus for the Calvinist there is neither the […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Attempting to recreate the scene of Thirteenth Century France is futile, yes. But the inability to identically repeat preliberal worlds does not mean that the only way forward is to grit our teeth and win mastery over society; to have the Church compete with liberalism and emerge as a victor on liberalism’s terms. Our friend is mistaken. But his mistake is reasonable. It is the […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The [Immaculate Reception] was immediately dubbed miraculous. The announcer for NBC’s national broadcast was Curt Gowdy, who declared on that December 23: “You talk about Christmas miracles. Here’s the miracle of all miracles!” It was the most improbable play, defying any earthy label. It merited a special name. A designation soon arrived, a name from the heavens. At the end of the game, a local […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "What is the mission of Christian politics? To make all men brothers, all women sisters; to make fathers and mothers of all those with more power than others; to make children of all those with less; to make cousins of all allies and strangers; to take the seed of charity so obviously present between mother and daughter, husband and wife, and make of it the […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The Feast of the Blessed Virgin’s Immaculate Conception is the most solemn of all those which the Church celebrates during the holy time of Advent; and if the first part of the Cycle had to offer us the commemoration of some one of the Mysteries of Mary, there was none whose object could better harmonize with the spirit of the Church in this mystic season […]